Setting up PSI to work with Konghack chat

Here's what you gotta do...

- First, go here [ http://psi-im.org/ ] and download/install PSI
- After you install it will prompt for account setup. Click "Use existing account"
- Next, you'll want to go here [ https://konghack.com/ucp/xmpp ] to get your XMPP settings.

- Under the "Account" tab enter the following information:
        XMPP Account: [Your Username] <--- from the XMPP settings page
        Password: [your konghack password]

- Under the "Connection" tab do the following:
        Check the "Manually Specify Server Host/Port:" box
        Host: chat.gcworldind.com
        Port: 5222

- Click "Save"

*** You MUST be disconnected from the chat on the webpage in order for this next step to work! ***

- In the bottom right corner of PSI, click "Offline" and change it to "Online".
- Accept/Trust any certification warnings

Okay, now that PSI is configured and connected, it's time to join the chat....

- Click General > Join Groupchat
- Remember that link I told you to go to for the XMPP settings? I hope you didn't close it out...
        Host: [MUC (multi user chat) Server] <--- from the XMPP settings page
        Room: [MUC Room] <--- from the XMPP settings page
        Nickname: [username]
        Password: [leave blank]
- Click "Join"

Here is kadat's video walkthrough for maximum handholding.


Adding bookmarks tutorial

Leave the last password field blank, since that is "chatroom password", since you can have password protected chat rooms.

Updated, thanks TiM

You might want to move this to the Resources Forum. It would make a lot more sense if this was there.

Moved and stickied.  There is also a link to this thread on the XMPP Settings page. :)

now if only new people were actually active in chat..

You can even configure PSI to autoconnect to the kongchat muc.

On your contact list right click on your konghack account and choose "XML console".
Tick the "Activate" box and click on "XML input".
Paste the following in the box, change "YOUR_NICK" to your nickname (just the nickname without the @chat.konghack.com part) and send it.

<iq type='set' id='2'>

<query xmlns='jabber:iq:private'>

<storage xmlns='storage:bookmarks'>

<conference name='konghackconf'

autojoin='true'

jid='[email protected]'>

<nick>YOUR_NICK</nick>

<password></password>

</conference>

</storage>

</query>

</iq>

You should get a respond like this

<iq from="[email protected]" type="result" to="[email protected]/XXX" id="2">
<query xmlns="jabber:iq:private"/>

</iq>

Untick Activate and close the window.
It should now autojoin kongchat muc when you go online the next time.
If it doesn't go to Options > Advanced and then options > muc > bookmarks and change auto-join to true.

added in a video tutorial to first post

If this is too confusing for you, you can right click on whatever you named the connection for this chat (konghack, chat.konghack.com) in the main Psi window and go to "Bookmarks > Manage". Click add then fill in the host, room, and nick information. Be sure to check "Auto-join". Now whenever you log in, it'll open the chat.

video tutorial added. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk_SJ7GzuHI