Facebook Messenger Account
Adds Facebook Messenger support to SailfishOS accounts, using the purple-facebook libpurple plugin and the telepathy-haze library. The advantage over the XMPP approach is that messages can be sent and received even if one party is/was offline.
Known issues:
- group messages do not work (at least from what I've tried)
- messages are marked read as soon as they arrive (not when you read them)
- an old version of purple-facebook (3d30d24fdbef from 12. August 2015) is used, until the mark-read behavior is changed upstream or patched in the current version
- if this application refuses to upgrade, please reinstall it (together with purple-facebook)
After the installation, go to Settings/Accounts/New Account and add the Facebook Messenger account. As the username, use your Facebook username. As for the password, I have tested it only with an app specific password (can be generated in your Security settings on the Facebook web), so that is the recommended approach. After adding the account, restart your phone and now you can go online with the account.
Heavily inspired by Thaodan's Skype Account plugin.
If you have any other issues, please let me know - I have not tested this much, so install/use only at your own risk. On the other hand, issues will most likely come from the purple-facebook plugin, so it is up to its developers to fix them.
I'm not the author of the purple-facebook library, just a packager, so donations for the plugin should go to those developers. Nevertheless, the packaging also took me quite a lot of time (still being quite an inexperienced packager), so if you like it, then please consider a small donation:
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Application versions:
| Attachment | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|
 haze-accounts-extensions-facebookmessenger-0.2-1.noarch.rpm | 6.56 KB | 21/09/2015 - 23:22 |
| haze-accounts-extensions-facebookmessenger-0.3-3.noarch.rpm | 6.56 KB | 22/09/2015 - 14:11 |
| haze-accounts-extensions-facebookmessenger-0.4-1.noarch.rpm | 6.56 KB | 23/01/2016 - 12:24 |
Changelog:
0.4 - Minor change - fixed account icon path to accomodate to jolla-ambient -> sailfish-default theme changes in Sailfish 2.0.1.7.
0.3 - Downgraded purple-facebook to version 3d30d24fdbef from 12. August 2015 as a workaround for never-ending notifications. If you cannot upgrade, then please refresh my repo and reinstall both this package and purple-facebook.
0.2 - Replaced custom account icon with the default from Jolla
0.1 - Initial release
Comments
articice
Sat, 2019/10/12 - 13:09
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Is it maintained? Does Facebook support XMPP at all now?
emchella
Tue, 2018/11/13 - 22:19
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After installed some pakage done by Thaodan
https://build.merproject.org/project/show/home:Thaodan:testing:mw:telepathy
for skype and upgrade to os.3.0.0.8 i havetry other time to install messanger another time, with the following output
nothing provide libgstreamer-0.10.so.0 request by libpurple-nss.2.10.11-10.16.1jolla.armv7hl
emchella
Sun, 2018/11/04 - 13:03
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the same, can't install
akira_pwr
Wed, 2018/03/07 - 09:56
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Can't install it...
Thaodan
Tue, 2017/10/17 - 07:45
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Are the sources of this pkg somewhere related?
manchevgeorgi
Mon, 2017/10/16 - 15:31
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Works after compiling the new purple-facebook, but i guess that the sailish-messages app is not reading the message as before. Some other method is being used by facebook to read messages and i'm keep receiving notifications even if message was 'read'. Any suggestion, someone havin' the sailfish-messages source?
smatkovi
Sat, 2018/03/31 - 12:55
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i made an account on jabber.no-sense.net then with gajim on a computer added Facebook transport and then added the xmpp account on sfos. for a while it worked quite well, but after abouta week i cannot see if somebody is online, profile pictures don't get downloaded anymore and the device gets very hot. have you tried anything in the last few months, or what is your experience?
florifreeman
Fri, 2017/07/28 - 11:33
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2.1.1.23 not working :-(
Klipata
Thu, 2016/11/24 - 22:05
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After 2.0.5.6 update it is not working :/
Eminem
Sun, 2016/10/23 - 23:52
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Any update soon?
DarkStarSword
Tue, 2016/10/11 - 08:59
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This plugin repeatedly causes Facebook to lock my account everytime I am on a mobile data connection (and I've seen a few other reports of this on together.jolla.com) regardless of whether I use an app specific password or not. It works fine on WiFi (presumably because Facebook recognises my fixed IP address), so I suspect that it may not be correctly saving a security token or cookie causing Facebook to continually believe that it is a new unrecognised device.
elastic
Tue, 2016/10/11 - 22:03
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Confirmed behaviour - it started with SFOS 2.0.2.x - so it might be OS related ...
vige
Thu, 2016/10/06 - 11:26
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After the 2.0.4.13 (Fiskarsinjoki) update, Facebook Messenger Account can no longer be installed. Installation fails with: "haze-accounts-extensions-facebookmessenger-0.4-1.noarch requires purple-facebook = 1, but this requirement cannot be provided"
elastic
Mon, 2016/10/10 - 19:37
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purple-facebook requires libpurple-nss 2.10.11 wich requires libfarstream 0.1 which seems not to be available in the repos for SFOS 2.0.4.13 ...
smatkovi
Wed, 2016/08/10 - 16:26
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since today i cannot log in anymore, maybe here is a hint: the sailfinder/tinder developer says his app also cannot connect due to changes in facebook login process or something like that
247
Thu, 2016/07/28 - 20:30
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you should update for 2.0.2 now it has been released since is not working anymore for me :)
nodevel
Sun, 2016/07/31 - 23:31
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Just installed and tested on 2.0.2.48 - works perfectly fine for me. As I mentioned in a previous post, it is very unlikely that a SailfishOS update could break this plugin, since it is quite independent and relies only on the telepathy framework. It is quite likely that this will break once Facebook changes something since we rely on an old version of the purple-facebook library that works with telepathy, so it's quite suprising that hasn't happened (because when it does, I won't be able to do much about it ;-) ).
247
Mon, 2016/08/01 - 11:59
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unfortunately plugin is not working for me...i can see it in the account list and it's perfectly configured but the status option tell me i have no service using the status option and the people app is not showing any contact at all from there...tried reinstalling the thing but with no luck...any hint?
smatkovi
Sun, 2018/04/01 - 11:20
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It also drains the battery very much...
smatkovi
Wed, 2016/08/17 - 20:27
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now i deleted the account and added a new one and have the same problem you have
Schturman
Fri, 2016/07/22 - 17:42
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Hi. Can't install it on 2.0.3.11. Please update package.
nodevel
Sat, 2016/07/23 - 11:36
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Schturman, thanks for the heads up, but how am I supposed to update the package for a version that hasn't been released yet? I in no way condone hackishly installing releases that are for Jolla's internal use only. It doesn't make any sense to make changes to apps based on experience from pre-alpha releases. Many things may change before 2.0.3.x gets released, but if/when I get such release on my Jolla C, I will check if this thing works.
Regarding i486 support - I am thinking of buying a i486 tablet in the summer. Either way, before i486 support gets into Mer OBS, it's not likely I will be able to build this and test comfortably.
Regarding the library updates - we still rely on an old version of the library. Changes to support telepathy upstream are in the pipeline for purple-facebook, but I haven't seen any progress for months.
tiiagoFernandez
Sat, 2016/06/18 - 20:09
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Can't get it to work :(
tiiagoFernandez
Sun, 2016/06/19 - 23:39
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Aparentely started working by itself.
I did nothing besides adding the account multiple times. I used the original username and original password.
After a few days, it started working. I have no clue on what happened tho.
Kimking
Thu, 2016/06/02 - 14:54
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i got it work with app password even i got error=username &password doesnt match.
after error i just rebooted and putted messenger online. and its works now perfectly.:)
tdriver
Tue, 2016/05/31 - 14:23
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Hi, how it works? I downloaded this app, create account and I do not see any option to wrote message via this app. I still have to install something to make it work? Thanks
Kimking
Tue, 2016/05/31 - 19:59
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find one contact from "people" who is on fb, and then upper rigth corner u can see white dot, from there u can find facebook messenger.
tdriver
Wed, 2016/06/01 - 00:01
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Thank you, many of my contacts are on fb but I cant see white dot in right corner and it seems that contacts in People app are not synchronized with fb. Actually there is no option to synchronize contacts on fb account on Jolla, just calendars, imafes and notification.
Kimking
Wed, 2016/06/01 - 00:47
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sorry about the dot. Facebook messenger shoud be at the page when u open contact. if the name arent same in fb and ur contact list, u need to link them. u rebooted and putted messenger online?
tdriver
Wed, 2016/06/01 - 13:56
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Well, still nothning. I tried to write names as well as on fb, rebooted, messenger is active and still no option on contact card. Nevermind, thank you
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