Trillian Status

What is Trillian Status?

Trillian status is a service that allows you to show the online status of each of your mediums in Trillian. The images may be linked from our site to any site you wish to show your status on.

What is the WebStatus plugin?

The WebStatus plugin is a Medium plugin for Trillian Pro 3.1 and Trillian Astra. This plug is what sends your status to a Trillian Status server.

What information does the plugin send?

It sends your Trillian Status username and password (hashed). It also sends for each medium its type (eg. AIM, MSN), the username for that medium and its status.

Why should I use Trillan Status, I have Astra?

It is true that Trillian Status does a similar thing as Astra Mini, but a lot of forums do not allow flash in signatures, where you can link directly to the cached images that Trillian Status creates. Also Trillian Status has images size from 24 to 48 pixels, if your signature is large it is easier to use smaller images.

How do I create an account?

At TrillianStatus.com your account is created automatically when you connect to the service with the plugin (see below on how to install). Other Trillian Status services may require you to Register or may be Private, see their websites for details.

How do I install the WebStatus plugin?

Download the plugin then unzip and place it in your trillian/plugins folder, in most cases this will be C:/Program Files/Trillian/plugins Once you have done that you will need to enable it.

Bring up the Trillian Preferences and click plugins. Locate WebStatus in the list of plugins and make sure the check box is ticked (see image below). Close the Trillian Preference dialog.

How do I setup the plugin?

It is fairly simple to set up, you just have to enter your username, system, path and password. If you were using TrillianStatus.com then it would be username@trillianstatus.com/ and a password (see image below). If you want it to auto connect then make sure you tick the box.

I have set up the plugin but now get a Access Denied message.

If this is the 1st time you have setup the plugin then maybe you are using a username that is already in use. Check the full list to see if that username is in use. If you have used the plugin before then the password does not match the one in our database.

You can go to the home page and click 'Forgot your password?' to have a new password sent to one of the emails address from you mediums.

What is Allow WebStatus Messaging for?

This has not been implemented yet, but it will allow visitors to send you a message from the planed flash version of Trillian Status.

When I click Settings nothing happens.

Again this has not been implemented yet, the plan is to have the web based control panel in the plugin.

How do I add a WebStatus account to my 2nd identity?

This is not implemented yet as the documentation for the Trillian APIs is very limited, it’s next on the list.