BetterChat

BetterChat is an unofficial addon for TeamSpeak 5 and aims to provide a better chat experience for the TeamSpeak 5 client. It enables support for BBCodes, improving messages sent by TeamSpeak 3 users, and automatic rich embeds for any website, including dedicated embeds for video, audio, image and twitter content. It works in both compact and detailed view.

BBCode support

BetterChat readds support for BBCodes in chat, just like in TeamSpeak 3. Currently the following tags are supported:

Name	Syntax	Example
bold	[b]bold[/b]
code	[code]code[/code]
color	[color=#00F]hexcode[/color] or [color=blue]css color[/color]
italic	[i]italic[/i]
spoiler	[spoiler]spoiler[/spoiler]
strike	[s]strike[/s]
underline	[u]underline[/u]
url	[url]https://example.com[/url] or [url=https://example.com]text[/url]
pre	[pre]inline code[/pre]

Rich Embeds

BetterChat supports automatic rich embeds for any website, including dedicated embeds for video, audio, image and twitter content. Due to technical limitations, not all video and audio formats are supported at the moment.

Video Embed

Audio Embed

Twitter Embed

Generic Embed

Styling

Custom styling for the image preview can be changed in the style.css. Rich embeds use the already existing css classes of the TeamSpeak client and should be compatible with already existing themes.

Installation

Notes:

• Manual installation only works for TeamSpeak 5 beta 70
• Depending on your installation directory you may need elevated permission privileges
• The installation process needs to be repeated after each TeamSpeak update
• Please check the compatibility section before installing BetterChat

Installer

Installation steps:

1. Download the installer for your operating system from here
2. Start the installer
3. Select your TeamSpeak installation directory
4. Select "BetterChat"
5. Click on "Install"

Manual

Installation steps:

1. Navigate to your TeamSpeak installation directory
2. Navigate to ./html/client_ui/
3. Open index.html in that directory with an editor and copy all contents from the index.html of this repository before </head> and save the file
4. Create a new folder named betterchat
5. Copy all contents from src/ into the newly created folder
6. And you are done! You can now start TeamSpeak

Configuration

BetterChat can be enabled and disabled while TeamSpeak is running. Just go to the settings menu inside TeamSpeak and navigate to Chats. There you can toggle specific features, like BBCode support or Rich Embeds, or enable and disable the addon entirely.

Compatibility

TeamSpeak	Windows	Linux	MacOS
Beta 77	2.5.0+	2.5.0+	2.5.0+
Beta 76	2.4.0+	2.4.0+	2.4.0+
Beta 75	2.3.0+	2.3.0+	2.3.0+
Beta 74	2.1.0 - 2.2.1	2.1.0 - 2.2.1	2.1.0 - 2.2.1
Beta 73	1.2.0 - 2.2.1	1.2.0 - 2.2.1	1.2.0 - 2.2.1
Beta 72	1.1.0 - 2.2.1	1.1.0 - 2.2.1	n/a
Beta 71	❌	❌	n/a
Beta 70	1.0.0 - 1.0.4	1.0.0 - 1.0.4	1.0.0 - 1.0.4