That's exactly what my problems were, amongst others. The beauty is that the chat is really hosted remotely but totally looks as if it's hosted on your end.

Ahh....at least I know there is someone else out there that has the same issues that I'm experiencing.

Thanks for the support group talk time. LOL!!

I like it, however I have a small problem, which is this shown below.

No matter what I do, I can't seem to get it to show the same color no matter what I do.

Any tips?

I still can't add additional chatrooms. Any reason why?

warning:
it does not work unless you buy addonchat.

it does not work with free edition of addonchat, as authentication can not be enabled on free addonchat accounts.

The author said otherwise here:

well it's a fact that it doesn't work with the free edition. But let me give it a shot!

Great. Tell me what happens. I don't mind buying the Add-on but he said otherwise.

Has anyone else gotten this to work with the free edition?

Using it, it works great and as advertised.

But my users have repeatedly asked for an easy "invite" feature, for when they notice a friend is currently on the board.

I myself would like some sort of chat scheduler with a countdown announcement that automatically displays (and disappears) on forumhome (ie: "Chat party begins in 3 hours 35 minutes")

It seems like the PM system (with pop-up notifications enabled) would be a great way for your users to invite each other to chat. Also, you could easily implement the countdown announcement with vBulletin's Notices feature and a countdown Javascript (you can find this all over the net).

Will this chat work for me?
Thank you.

If the PM system was sufficient, they'd be using it. They aren't, so it isn't.

And if I was the DIY type to "easily implement" I certainly wouldn't be paying $100+ for a chat script.

Just making a suggestion. :rolleyes: In my experience, forum users not familiar with vBulletin may often overlook simple ways to use existing features in the software. Also, if you can copy and paste, you are the DIY type.

I agree totally. Both would be fantastic features to see in this product.

Im just wondering if anyone notices any forum slowdown when this is added?

I added it yesterday and my forum seems slower. anyone else?

I have not noticed any drop in speed. Perhaps you should try removing the menu which displays the number of users logged in to the chat to see if that makes a difference?

I contacted Addonchat support about this and their answer basically came down to "ask Vbulletin", so I'm asking you folks here... I was using the 3.6 integration with vb3.6, and life was good. I upgraded to v3.7, and got this integration package, and life is still good, except for one major problem: my users (and myself) are being timed out of the chat if we are inactive for more than 10 or 15 minutes. The timeout is disabled in my addonchat settings, so the addonchat people are mystified as to what is causing this. Anybody have an idea?

Help! I installed this mod and then had to restore my sql, and when I tried to reinstall this I got:

I don't know how to fix it!

$400 for 200 users.....
RIPOFF ALERT

nice... i have been installed this...

btw this is my frist post here :D

Hi I have installed this add on signed up for a free acount i canot see a link in my navbar or quicklink how do i get this working please

same thing its happening to me.

Please help. I've installed the files, and I've signed up for an account. I received an email with my account id and password, but when I enter it into the AdminCP settings I get the following error:

Error setting remote authentication URL.

This error is most likely caused by entering an incorrect account number, password or an invalid authentication URL. This error can also be caused if you do not have a Professional PLUS or Enterprise account, or if you do not have the Remote Authentication module.

Please verify your account number, password and authentication URL and try your request again.


Not sure how to proceed from here.

Is it the free account? I don't think it works with that.

Yes, it's the free account. So, are you saying that a free account doesn't actually work with vbulletin?

It does. But leave it out and see what happens. It could also be the authentication url. Leave that out first then try it. I had a couple of problems with the free version and I can't remember which entry it was.

I think I may have figured out a work-around. I analized the email that I received and saw that the link referenced a certain client in the code. I selected that client and it seems to work fine. For the port, I just left it as whatever was there already.

I have a couple of questions I was hoping somebody could help me with. First, can we expect continued integration support and hacks? And second, I'm having trouble deciding which version to get (pro, pro-plus, etc.). I'm looking for basic functionality right now but may want to expand in the future. I run a fairly small forum (most users online has been 16 so far) but want room to expand.

Thanks.

Any way to embed this onto the FORUMHOME page, so we don't have to use it on a separate page or a floating popup? Like other shout/chat boxes on here.

Spent entirely too long troubleshooting something just now and figured I'd share the solution for others that run into the same thing.

The Plugin does conflict with Vbadvanced cmps. I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't load until I removed the addonchat.php files from being integrated into my pages. Once addon chat is no longer integrated within vba cmps, it worked fine.

As far as I can tell this doesn't have any adverse effects. Everything still looks just as it should and is working properly.

The only problem I have left, is I don't know how to exclude the addonchat files from integration with the default Homepage page that cmps has. Hopefully I'll get that figured out tomorrow, because right now you still can't enter the chat from that individual page.

does this give you a way to log chats?

I'm getting the following error: "http authentication not permitted" Why?

I have a Professional PLUS account.

Okay... got everything working and I LOVE this program already... There are a few bugs/requests/changes that need to be addressed in the next version of this mod for Addonchat...

1 - uncached templates (I already fixed this in my version)
2 - support for the community link in 3.8 (already fixed in my version)
3 - better templates. I rewrote all my templates, to handle 100% widths.
4 - better who's chatting template...

The who's chatting page should NOT be its own page. It should be on top of the forum home, the same way this mod does it: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=196466

I've made my own version of this product (attached)... it brings support for vb3.8 and who's chatting on forumhome.

I am a little confused. Addonchat plugin conflicts with the Vbadvanced cmps only when it's integrated with vBa-cmps-created page, right?

I don't understand. Please explain. Are you saying if we install this product after the AddonChat product we'll have a "who's chatting" box somewhere? Or install it in place of?

You might want to take the icon size out of your product. Took me a while to figure that out.. massive icons :) Also, an option to toggle the forum home bit would be nice. I ended up editing your new product to remove that box.

You uninstall the current product and install his. Although it puts the who's chatting box at the top of the forum rather than the bottom and there is also the icon thing I mentioned above. Having the chat stuff under Community is so much nicer though.

A few weeks ago I upgraded forum to 3.8. I'm wondering if this version of addonchat is fully compatible?

A few members have reported having problems getting into chat. Even though they're logged into the forum, when they load chat it keeps say "invalid username or password".

Can anyone help this with? Is it a cookie problem? Anything I can do to help stop it? It's really irritating.

This works pretty good, however if you want to take advantage of anything vBulletin wise (other than it auto logging you in), you're going to have to pay a minimum of $125.00 a year. Only the Professional PLUS version uses any of the vBulletin usergroup options, etc.

Anyway, since it's per year, I've decided to keep looking at other products. I'd of paid it had it been a onetime fee.

Good stuff otherwise though.