Hi,

I have put together a PyGTK App, with which you can handle your SMSs with Skype.

It has support for sending SMSs (with price preview), gives you a list of your SMSs and let's you register your mobil phone number as ReplyToNumber, so the SMSs you send from Skype appear to come from your mobile.

Since it's written in Python, you don't need to compile it, just make sure you have Skype4Py and PyGTK2 installed and then you are ready to go.

Just fetch it from: http://www.kolmann.at/philipp/linux/skype_sms/

Get Skype4Py from: http://skype4py.sourceforge.net/
If you don't want to install Skype4Py systemwide, untar the skype4py.tar.gz and copy the Skype4Py folder from within the tarball in your sms-0.8.0 directory.

PyGTK2 should be available for your distribution. (For debian based system try: apt-get install apt-get install python-gtk2)

Hope you like it,
Philipp

Nice one!
This should bridge the waiting time until SMS is integrated into Skype UI.

New Version 0.8.1 released:

06-09-2007: 0.8.1
* Feature: Fetch Numbers from Skype Client and use them in the GUI (List and Send)

06-09-2007: 0.8.2
* Feature: Show registration Status.
* Fix: Registration

Hi,

I have put together a PyGTK App, with which you can handle your SMSs with Skype.

It has support for sending SMSs (with price preview), gives you a list of your SMSs and let's you register your mobil phone number as ReplyToNumber, so the SMSs you send from Skype appear to come from your mobile.

Since it's written in Python, you don't need to compile it, just make sure you have Skype4Py and PyGTK2 installed and then you are ready to go.

Just fetch it from: http://www.kolmann.at/philipp/linux/skype_sms/

Get Skype4Py from: http://skype4py.sourceforge.net/
If you don't want to install Skype4Py systemwide, untar the skype4py.tar.gz and copy the Skype4Py folder from within the tarball in your sms-0.8.0 directory.

PyGTK2 should be available for your distribution. (For debian based system try: apt-get install apt-get install python-gtk2)

Hope you like it,
Philipp

This works really well. Thank you!

Let's hope Skype do at least as good a job as you did!

Troyski.

This works really well. Thank you!

Thanks. I am glad that you like it.

Let's hope Skype do at least as good a job as you did!

They have laid the ground work and have done a superb job with 1.4. It just happened to have too many features on their list. I like it, that they tried to build a stable client and not a feature monster noone can handle.

There are already two new releases today:

CODE

07-09-2007: 0.8.4
  * Feature: Enable passing of a phone number as ARGV[1]
             (Idea from Florian Ehinger)
            
07-09-2007: 0.8.3
  * Feature: Improve threading.
  * Fix: Don't set focus on SendSMS Phone Entry

If you still have features, just ask. I will see, what I can do.

Philipp

New version released today:

11-09-2007: 0.8.5
* Feature: Enable multirow delete in SMS List

Philipp

Pardon my ignorance, what is the 'Register Phone' option for?

Is it possible to get the replies routed to your regular phone number? that would be cool.

Pardon my ignorance, what is the 'Register Phone' option for?

Is it possible to get the replies routed to your regular phone number? that would be cool.

That's it. You register your mobile phone number with skype and it will get used as the Sender of the SMS so the sms appears to the recipient as if you would have sent it from your mobile phone.

Philipp

We have a new additional Feature:

13-09-2007: 0.9.0
* Feature: Calltransfer

Currently Calltransfer only works with Skype4py svn trunk but I hope that Arkadiusz will put up a new version with this bug fixed soon.

This is a really excellent addition! Thanks for this.

Why can't people create more addons for Skype for Linux. A video addon would be great until it is implemented into Skype properly. It would also keep some people on this forum quiet about it! Perhaps this is too complicated though.....

This post has been edited by cowanh00: Mon Sep 17 2007, 08:54

This is a really excellent addition! Thanks for this.

Why can't people create more addons for Skype for Linux. A video addon would be great until it is implemented into Skype properly. It would also keep some people on this forum quite about it! Perhaps this is too complicated though.....

True I am sure that there is nothing wrong to just build a link with Unicap to send the video stream to it. I have an already working V4L2 webcam all I need is socket to send the stream to.

I also own a N800 and it would be great if the webcam did work with that version of skype.

Since my app now also has call transfer, a time for a new name was ripe:

SkySentials

New Version: 16-09-2007: 1.0.0
* Feature: New Name: SkySentials
* Feature: Possibility to control transfer for multiple calls
* Feature: Start GUI polishing


Fetch it now: http://www.kolmann.at/philipp/linux/skysentials/

This software needs at least:

* Python 2.5
* Skype4Py 0.9.28.3
http://skype4py.sourceforge.net/

Hope you like it
Philipp

This is a really excellent addition! Thanks for this.

Why can't people create more addons for Skype for Linux. A video addon would be great until it is implemented into Skype properly. It would also keep some people on this forum quiet about it! Perhaps this is too complicated though.....

Why should linux hackers waste our time in a company which don't want to share its knowledge with us? Give out the protocol specs (not the code) and a skype-compatible client for linux with webcam support will be released tomorrow.

It will support also msn, yahoo, aim, gadu, jabber, irc and winpoput. It's name is kopete, it worked with skype once, but the developer soon realized that it was too hard to be mantain compatibility with whom want to maintain a monopole.

This post has been edited by paulatz: Fri Sep 21 2007, 01:04

so, very useful, I use it.
A little bug: sometimes, the text inserted disappears while I type a sms, so you have to type the text again before sending the sms.

Hi,
just to say that I continue to use this program often.
I just still misses these little bugs (text disappearing, sms not delivered sometimes)

Bye

so, very useful, I use it.
A little bug: sometimes, the text inserted disappears while I type a sms, so you have to type the text again before sending the sms.

Could you please add at the Read me file a "How to install"? I'm very new to Linux and I have no glue how to get that running at Mandriva.

Thanks.

This post has been edited by Suzuna: Thu Nov 8 2007, 10:11

Could you please add at the Read me file a "How to install"? I'm very new to Linux and I have no glue how to get that running at Mandriva.

Thanks.

To install you should follow these simple steps!

download skysentials from
http://www.kolmann.at/philipp/linux/skysen...ls-1.0.0.tar.gz
download skype4py from
http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourcefor...0.9.28.5.tar.gz

go into directory where are the files and type
tar xzvf skysentials-1.0.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf Skype4Py-0.9.28.5.tar.gz

go into directory Skype4Py-0.9.28.5
and type
./setup.py install
./setup.py install_lib
./setup.py install_headers
./setup.py install_scripts
./setup.py install_data

after go into directory skysentials-1.0.0

and run program with ./skysentials.py
or ./skysentials.py &

enjoy!

Hi,
good question, but the installation instructions are to OLD.
The latest version is a ....06 version on sourceforge.net.
Question 2: how to uninstall it ?

Best regards

Hi,
good question, but the installation instructions are to OLD.
The latest version is a ....06 version on sourceforge.net.
Question 2: how to uninstall it ?

Best regards

I think unistall is only made by

rm -Rf directories

regards

This post has been edited by LocutusOfBorg1: Sun Dec 9 2007, 19:45