Instead of using your i-buddy (http://www.i-buddy.com) with MSN Messenger, why not use it to show other info? With pybuddy, you can control your i-buddy to do any of the supported actions: change head color, blink its heart, beat its wings, ... Example uses are: monitoring a website traffic (404s in red, 500s beating wings, 200s in green, ...), showing your project's continuous integration process, ...

Dependencies

The daemon is written in python, runs on Linux and needs python-usb.

Software using pybuddy

Beside the scripts published in the contrib directory, there is other software using pybuddy:

• Jabbim, a Jabber/XMPP client. Mimics i-buddy MSN Messenger behaviour.
• AMSN-iBuddy. An AMSN plugin.

Other versions

• pybuddy-dx if you own a DX (DealExtreme) ebuddy.