Snippet: Add Facebook Chat to Empathy

empathy-fbchat-failed-authenticationIf you are a regular Facebook Chat user, you will be happy to know that Facebook has recently launched the XMPP support which allows you to connect to FB Chat from (almost) any IM applications (only applies to those that support the XMPP protocol).

For Ubuntu Karmic users who are using Empathy rather than Pidgin, some of you might have difficulties connecting to the FB Chat network. The most common seen problem is the Authentication Failed message. Here’s the fix:

Open your Empathy. Go to Edit -> Accounts.

empathy-fbchat-accounts

In the new window, click Add.

Select Jabber in the dropdown field and check the box “Reuse an existing account“. (Do not select “Create a new account”. You will have authentication error later on)

empathy-fbchat-jabber

Enter your Facebook login name and append @chat.facebook.com at the back as the Login ID. For example: damienoh@chat.facebook.com

Enter your Facebook login password.

Click Connect.

empathy-fbchat-connect

That’s it. You should be able to connect to Facebook Chat from Empathy now.

Note: If you have just created your Facebook username, you will need to log out and login again to your Facebook account before you can connect with Empathy.

For those who are connecting from other IM applications, you can easily add your Facebook chat with the following configuration:

Protocol: XMPP or Jabber
Username: your facebook username
Domain: chat.facebook.com
Jabber ID: your-facebook-username@chat.facebook.com
Password: your Facebook password

Advanced Settings

Port: 5222
Server: chat.facebook.com
Use SSL/TLS: no
Allow Plaintext Authentication: no

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  • Douze

    I had “Authentication Error”. So if you've only recently added a username (http://www.facebook.com/whatever) to your Facebook account, it seems you need to log out of the website, log back in, *then* connect with Empathy; until you do that, you'll get “Authentication Error”.

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  • http://maketecheasier.com/ Damien Oh

    Thanks for pointing it out. I didn't encounter this issue when I setup the chat client in Empathy, probably because I have created my username long ago.

    Anyway, I have updated the article. Thanks

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  • Henry Computerteck

    Thanks SO MUCH!!!!

    It works!

  • NutMotion

    Thanks a lot! 1)create facebook username 2)logout and log in again in facebook 3)ONLY AFTER this do you launch empathy to follow the author’s steps.

  • Skey Mick

    Thank you for the info had trouble for hours until I found this THANK-YOU

  • Srizwanshah

    Thanks i did the same but it was not working because i turn on the “account security” option thats y it was not working and when i turn off every thing become fine anyway thanks for the post

  • Nelson Suniaga

    it works for me, thanks a lot!

  • Dalton

    Works like a charm. Thanks!

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    It works. Thanks!

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    It works for me, thanks a lot!

  • Mohit

    not able to connect… some network error… :(

  • Randy Urias

    I was able to add it as a Facebook Account in Empathy, I just had to logout and log back in to facebook. Thanks for the heads-up

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