This plugin is not supported by the Amazon Chime team. Do not contact them for any assistance with this client.
It supports chat and meetings with audio.
You can join meetings using the chime-joinable.py script, e.g.:
chime-joinable.py 123456768
There is a plugin for Evolution which allows Pidgin to spawn a new meeting editor with the Chime meeting details prepopulated. Select 'Schedule meeting…' from the account menu in Pidgin.
Video is not yet implemented, although it should actually be simple to add since it is mostly just standard SRTP, unlike the audio and legacy screenshare protocols which required a lot of extra work on the transport stream.
Screen share used to work but the protocol has changed to treating it like just another video stream.
We should extend the Evolution plugin so that it spots when meetings are starting which contain a Chime link, but to which you weren't invited directly so Chime doesn't auto-call. It should make those joinable automatically, like the chime-joinable.py script does.
sudo dnf install 'pkgconfig(purple)' 'pkgconfig(libsoup-2.4)' 'pkgconfig(json-glib-1.0)'
./configure
make
sudo make install
This plugin uses your system web browser by asking Pidgin to open a URI
for the login page. After a successful login, you end up redirected to a
URI like chime://prpl?...". There is a desktop file which sets chime:
URIs to be handled by a python script which passes the
token back to Pidgin via D-Bus.
You can set the CHIME_DEBUG environment variable to get additional
debug output on top of the Pidgin debugging enabled with -d:
CHIME_DEBUG=2 pidgin -d