EionRobb / purple-pulsesms

PulseSMS Plugin for Pidgin

This plugin adds support for an additional protocol to Pidgin and libpurple-based instant messenger clients (eg bitlbee, spectrum2, Finch) to connect to the PulseSMS SMS relay app that runs on your Android phone.

Requirements

• An account at https://messenger.klinkerapps.com/overview/index.html
• The PulseSMS Android app

Supported Features

• one-to-one SMS
• image/MMS receiving

Currently known issues

• Messages can take up to 60s to appear in Pidgin due to message polling
• Group SMS/MMS don't display correctly

Installation

Linux install

Requires devel headers/libs for libpurple and libjson-glib [libglib2.0-dev, libjson-glib-dev and libpurple-dev]

	git clone git://github.com/EionRobb/purple-pulsesms.git
	cd purple-pulsesms
	make
	sudo make install

Windows install

Download nightly builds of libpulsesms.dll and copy into your C:\Program Files (x86)\Pidgin\plugins\ folder