hoehermann
commented
1 year ago Hi Capsis
Thank you for the report.
Linux
The plug-in is supposed to go in /home/username/.purple/plugins. You can remove the copy from /home/username/.purple/ to avoid confusion.
Please start pidgin from the command line with debug output enabled like this:
pidgin -d | grep whatsmeowRemove sensitive information and paste the output here. Or send it to github@hehoe.de.
Windows
To have nice icons, unzip whatsmeow_icons.zip to your Pidgin installation, merging the pixmaps directory.
Unfortunately, the problem with the QR code error message does not happen on my machines. I am using Pidgin 2.14.8 on Ubuntu 22.04 with WhatsApp 2.23.9.75 on my phone. You can use Help → "Plugin Information" to confirm it is actually the current version 1.12.0 that is being used. To avoid confusion, I just deleted all old versions from the buildbot.
Dear community, Dear Developer, First of all I have used Pidgin Whatsapp fro two or three months without any issues now. Thank You for that. This is a great product..
One day the QR failed to load. So I reinstalled the plug-in, but after the plug-in does not show up in the list.
On Mint I have downloaded the latest version libwhatsmeow_1.12.0r241_20230628230045_amd64_ubuntu22.04.so and copied it to /home/username/.purple/plugins and also to /home/username/.purple/
however the plug-in does not appear in the list.
Reinstalling Pidgin does not help to solve the issue.
So what should I do?
On Windows if downloading the newest dll it is displayed in Pidgin (without an icon) as Whatsapp (whatsmenow) and generates a QR code. But this QR code generates an error message upon scanning. As I do not know how to add images to Github here is the shortened text:
Invalid QR code Please pay attention scanning a QR Code that is generated by an official Whatsapp Web/ Desktop app, Portal If you persist experiencing issues please reload or update your app.
In Whatsapp Web on Linux with Firefox it works without issues.