I love the fact that I can funnel (almost) all of my IM accounts into one Messenger front-end app.
My iMessage, AIM, Yahoo and GoogleTalk all appear in my Messages App.
Can I get Skype to do the same?
I'm hoping the answer is not, "no, because it's Microsoft and they don't play well with Apple."
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), 27inch, 4 CPUs, 256GB SSD, 2TB HD
The answer is no. Whether the reason is technical, licensing, or co-operation between Apple and Microsoft, it's not happening right now.
Matt
Hi,
Skype never played with iChat.
It never played with anything else either.
AIM can relay Video chats through it server and iChat/Messages can be set up to do this (Later versions of iChat).
Other than the Name/IDs nothing is centralised about Skype.
Last time I ran it was in Leopard.
I was using Little Snitch at the time (still do)
iChat/Messages makes about 3 or 4 Logins connections per Account. (Buddy list, Buddy Pics, Profile etc)
It then uses 4 more port connections to do an AV chat.
Skype seems to make endless connections (I quit about the 40 mark, Decfom in iChat reported over 100)
These seem to be "sharing" end user bandwidth to spread the load for the video or Audio chat.
I don't know if it still does but the Skype Preferences used to list that download's Port number
If you did not open this in the firewall or router then it would default to port 80 or 443 (Always Open ports) circumventing your firewall or Router settings.
Apparently the port used to vary from Download/install to Download/Install.
See this site for the instructions to Look up the port before Forwarding ports on the router model.
10:17 PM Wednesday; February 13, 2013
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"
iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
Mac OS X (10.6.8),
Couple of iPhones and an iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images." No, Seriously
If Apple can't buy Skype from Microsoft, maybe Apple can buy Microsoft?
I'm sorry to hear about that! I wish it could be possible to sing in Skype through the Mac iMessage. I use most of socials by iMessage, FB, AIM, Gtalk, Yahoo, Bonjour... and most of my friends have Skype but no FaceTime and no Mac systems at all :/
not exact.
TRILLIAN can provide Skype communications.
Video chat is not supported anymore though since Microsoft acquired Skype and killed the SDK project.
Hi,
The Question was whether Skype accounts can be made to work in Messages.
The answer to that is No.
I removed Skype from my computers several years ago (before the Microsoft purchase) as Little Snitch showed the app made many more connections across the world and not just to a Login Server and a Buddy (An AIM Login makes for server connections to get Buddy List, Buddy Pics, Status and well as the verification of the Login itself).
I stopped the app making more than 30 odd connections
A friend of mine counted over 100 when he let the app do it's thing.
I have not kept up to date with what's currently available for Mac. Or the features other apps have added surrounding this.
9:06 pm Tuesday; December 9, 2014
Skype via OSX Messages?
