Hello all,

Is it possible to programmatically control different Skype instances on Linux?

Extract from the API doc:
"... Skype now uses the session-dbus by default to enable multiple clients to run on one machine simultaneously."

But it's not clear how one can control the different instances started.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Cannon Fodder,

See the following for more on this:
http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=116421

Apparently its not possible, though one person in that thread seems to have got it working.

The way *I* read the extract from API, it is to support multiple users running skype from the same machine (as Linux can often be multi-user), and each user has their own DBUS session. Its not to support multiple skypes under a single user. Of course, I'm sure you could probably just run skype under several different usernames each with their own dbus interface on the same box.

Good Luck. I may be looking at this myself sometime in the near future.

- Bundabrg

Thanks - I'll try to think of something...

I was looking for a solution to control many instances of skype via API.
I didnt find any, so I decided to create a whole new API that can just do that.
The API can control as many instances as your CPU and RAM allow.
I tested it for 8 instances of skype and it worked perfectly.
Im just finilizing some details to make it public.

Thank you!

/me waits.

Same here

Will it work on windows? And will I able to use this functionality with skype4java?

I made the API so that any programming language that support TCP/IP can use it.