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-===== skcmd =====
-This page tries to explain quicly how to install and use skcmd. skcmd enables
-you to control Skype, while it's running, through your commandline. It is perfect
-to work around the accessibility problems of the main interface of Skype, as well as the major bugs in the plugin pidgin-skype.
-The following instructions were tested on Vinux 4.0, i.e. Ubuntu 12.04, as well as
-Debian Wheezy 7.0.
-===== What to Install =====
-First, install the package python-authkit. It installs a lot of important
-dependencies. Then, download the needed utilities, i.e. skcmd and skype4py.
-<code>
-git clone http://github.com:/lsmithso/skcmd.git
-git clone https://github.com/awahlig/skype4py.git
-</code>
-In any order, install both packages. For this, change to their respective directories
-and run, in each one:
-<code>
-sudo python setup.py install
-</code>
- ===== Usage =====
-Now, to use skcmd, you need to run the daemon, as regular user:
-<code>
-skcmd.py s
-</code>
-Skype will ask you to accept that an outside program wants to use its API. Say
-yes.
-On another tab on window, run the appropriate commands.
-===== Commands =====
-The complete list of client commands are:
-authz handle 0|1 - Authorize   the contact with handle.
-contacts - Prints a list of all your contacts in the format  handle/display name/full name/status.
-auto_answer 0|1 - Turns off/on autoanswer. Default is off.
-hangup - Finish the current call.
-exit - Terminate the  skcmd server.
-answer - Answer the current inbound call.
-call handle - Place an outbound call to the user with handle. Handle
-is the Skype id printed in the 1st column of the 'contacts' command.
-tone tones - send DTMF tones, ie for POTS conferencing.
-add_contact  - Sends an authz requests to handle
-search = Search for a Skype user
-chat - chat to the user with handle.
-status  Set your status to DND, INVISIBLE  etc
-   mood - set your mood message
-  vms - List all voicemails,.
-  vmplay idx - Play the voicemail with index number idx
-  vmstop - Stop the currently playing voicemail
-  vmdelete idx - Delete the voicemail with id idx
-  me  - print your skype id/screen name and your current balance.
-help - A breif help message.
-===== Skype status changes =====
-The server logs some Skype status messages to stdout, and  signals them on D-Bus.
-Status logged includes inbound/outbound call progress (in particular
-inbound call ringing), contact authorization requests, contact status
-changes (online, away etc) and chat messages.
-These are plain text messages so a TTS should be able to announce them.
-skcmd also signal D-Bus with these status messages. A simple skcmd.el is included that listens for this signal and announces it to emacspeak.
-===== Disclaimer =====
-This software comes with absolutely no warranty whatsoever, and comes
-AS-IS.  Do what you want with itt. I take no responsibility whatsoever
-for it.
-===== The Demise of the Skype Desktop API =====
-skcmd.py and all other Skype apps depend on the availability of the
-Skype Desktop API. This is a rich programming interface that makes
-just about all Skype desktop functionality available to apps. It
-allows inventive and powerful 3rd party telephony apps to be built
-around Skype for free. It is a mature and well documented part of the
-Skype ecosystem.
-In July 2013 Microsoft announced that they were killing off this API
-in favour of a new SkypeURI interface.  This interface has vastly
-reduced functionality, to the point where its almost useless.
-SkypeURI is unusable for skcmd, and I suspect for a lot of other apps
-too.
-The announcement says that the Desktop API will begin to stop working
-in September 2013, and that apps should start using SkypeURI right
-away.
-SkypeURI is not currently available for Linux, so if the Desktop API
-does stop working, skcmd.py is sunk. Even when it does become
-available, it is of no use at all, so skcmd.py is still sunk.
-As of September 3 2013, skcmd.py was still fully functioning, so enjoy
-it while you can!

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