[CR] Skype SDK

[Antoine Chalons]

Name: Skype SDK

Submitter: LAVA 1.0 Content

Submitted: 04 Jul 2009

Category: Remote Control, Monitoring and the Internet

LabVIEW Version: 8.6

Version: 1.0.1

License Type: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

Potentially make this available on the VI Package Network?: Undecided

Copyright © 2008, Antoine Châlons

All rights reserved.

Author:

Antoine Châlons

-- see readme file for contact information

Description:

These VIs embed ActiveX methods and properties to control Skype from LabVIEW.

List of functions :

- Launch / shut-down Skype

- Retrieve contact list

- Get profile info

- Set user status

- Get / set user mood

- start / stop Skype call

- Skype chat with contact(s)

- Send Skype SMS

Dependencies & Installation:

To work it requires to have Skype4COM installed (version 1.0.31 or newer), you can get it from https://developer.skype.com/Download.

To install Skype4Com run the following command : regsvr32 skype4com.dll

To allow a program to use the ActiveX Skype interface you have to enable it in Skype:

1. Skype Options

2. Advanced

3. Manage others programs' access to Skype

4. Select your program (LabVIEW.exe) and click change if the text 'Not allowed to use Skype' is shown

After that you can talk to Skype, otherwise you will get a question inside Skype that asks you to allow or deny your application.

Support:

This code was written with LabVIEW 8.6

Change Log:

1.0.0: Initial release of the code.

1.0.1: Additional installation information.

Click here to download this file

[Antoine Chalons]

Next features to come :

- send file,

- wait on message from user

[Antoine Chalons]

maybe there's hope for much more features soon :-o

http://blogs.skype.com/devzone/2010/06/skypekit_beta.html

[Alessandro Romolo]

Hi Antoine! I have download your software but I'm not able to use every sub! When I try to send sms he answer me with 80020009 Hex error and I don't know how to do. Can you help me??

[asbo]

Aleesandro, you should post your VI so other developers can try to reproduce the error you're seeing.

Also, what version of Skype and Skype4COM are you using?

[Alessandro Romolo]

Hi asbo! I use Skype 5.5 and Skype4COM version 1.0.36. I've not modified the VI so it's the same as the Antoine's one (call SKYPE_SDK_SendSms).

Error tells me;

Exception occured in Skype4COM.Skype.1: SMS: CREATE SMS takes a list of phone numbers in SKYPE_SDK_CreateSMS.vi->SKYPE_SDK_SendSms.vi

[Antoine Chalons]

Hi Alessandro,

This is all a bit far in my memory... can you post your VI (the one that call the Send SMS VI), as far as I can remember I included some example VIs, no?

Trying to help

[Alessandro Romolo]

This is front panel and block diagram in the same screenshot; this is a simplified structure but it doesn't work. In the block diagram you can see one case structure on the left (used to open chat and say something, and it works), and another case structure on the right for sms; in the front panel you can see the type of the error. If you can help me I would be very grateful, I am a newbie to labview but I have to make many software for my graduate exam! And sorry for my bad english

[Antoine Chalons]

Hmmm... apparently there is an issue with the number you're passing in, have you tried to use the international format +"country code""number"?

Also I'm not sure what could have changed with the versions... I developed with 1.0.31 and you have 1.0.36... there shouldn't be issue with that but you can still search the documentation here : https://developer.sk...erence#COMMANDS

Here's the example I made at the time, I tested it, it was working fine.

[Alessandro Romolo]

I've prove in many different way and every time there is a different error. I don't know if it is for skype version or not. However I've done the VI as yours, and he tells me about error 97. The thing i don't understand is that the error arises in the first sub, the "launch one" as you can see in the screenshot made in highlight execution, but the subVI lanch works right in other situation! If I remove the sub lanch (because skype is already open), appears the 80020009 error, as I already told.

And I have already prove with + and country code!

[cme0848]

Nice icons. I need to download and try this out. Very cool concept!