954120 - Add Google Talk (XMPP) to SMS transports

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Chat Core :: General, enhancement)

Description

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*** Original post on bio 685 by Michael <Prescience500 AT gmail.com> at 2011-02-04 19:09:00 UTC ***

Please add Google Talk (XMPP) to SMS transports. It would allow instant messages to be sent from a Google Talk account to someone's phone as a text message. There's currently a Google Labs project that provides this for people logged into Gmail with their web browser. Maybe Instantbird can connect or utilize Google's Labs service.

Comment 1

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 685 at 2011-02-05 03:41:19 UTC ***

I was thinking of making this as a raw account at some point using the XML feeds, but if there's an XMPP transport to do it, that would be a lot easier. Are there any links, etc. to the Labs information? (We don't want to add it and have it disappear on us!)

Comment 2

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*** Original post on bio 685 by Michael <Prescience500 AT gmail.com> at 2011-02-05 06:40:17 UTC ***

I couldn't find any official information that would be useful to developers looking to connect their client to it. I did find this though. Idk if it's helpful.

http://snarfed.org/google_talk_sms_pidgin_plugin

Comment 3

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 685 at 2011-02-09 18:49:35 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #2)
> I couldn't find any official information that would be useful to developers
> looking to connect their client to it. I did find this though. Idk if it's
> helpful.
> http://snarfed.org/google_talk_sms_pidgin_plugin

So this is apparently not what I was thinking at all, I was think of being able to SMS via Google Voice. I'm guessing you just want this to work for your GTalk account, right? Not have a separate account for the transport?

All we have to do is add a capability to the XMPP presence stanza, I'm not sure how easily this can be done in libpurple. (In particular via our protocol overrides.)

Comment 4

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*** Original post on bio 685 by Michael <Prescience500 AT gmail.com> at 2011-02-09 22:06:02 UTC ***

You are correct. I want to be able to send SMS messages via my Google Talk account. I had kinda hoped this wouldn't be one of the harder things to do since there's already a pidgin plugin that does this that might be able to be adapted to instantbird. I believe other instant messaging clients like adium (which I think uses libpurple) has this ability added in, but I'm not sure. If so, maybe some of the code used for it might be able to be ported? It's probably just wishful thinking on my part though.

Comment 5

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 685 at 2011-02-10 02:31:54 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #4)
> You are correct. I want to be able to send SMS messages via my Google Talk
> account. I had kinda hoped this wouldn't be one of the harder things to do
> since there's already a pidgin plugin that does this that might be able to be
> adapted to instantbird. I believe other instant messaging clients like adium
> (which I think uses libpurple) has this ability added in, but I'm not sure. If
> so, maybe some of the code used for it might be able to be ported? It's
> probably just wishful thinking on my part though.
I checked around a bit and it doesn't seem that adium supports this, but I might be wrong.

It's possible that this could be added relatively easily with a patch to libpurple, but checking out the code I was awfully lost. :) There does seem to be a separate google folder under the jabber protocol, but I'm not sure if that code is being used or not since we over jabber to be gtalk in http://lxr.instantbird.org/instantbird/source/purple/purplexpcom/src/gtalkOverrideProtocol.js

flo, you have any input on this?

Michael: Do you know if there's a bug open for pidgin w/ this? (http://developer.pidgin.im)

(Note that I tested this and I got an SMS when I added my phone to the buddy list, but nothing else seemed to go through...I didn't see any errors though.)

Comment 6

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*** Original post on bio 685 by Michael <Prescience500 AT gmail.com> at 2011-03-08 20:07:41 UTC ***

Sorry it's taken so long to respond. I've been busy with moving and transferring to my new job and what not, among other things. I couldn't find anything on Pidgin's bug tracker, but then again, it's hard to find anything anymore since they did away with their old search that had advanced filters. I've done further research and I'm not entirely sure that Google's own Google Talk client or it's labs beta support this. Someone might have to try asking Google as a representative of the project if they want to get technical specs. I made the following request about a month ago on Google's Google Chat forum:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/chat/thread?tid=688115bcdb556960&hl=en

Comment 7

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

I'm pretty sure this isn't a thing anymore.