diff --git a/lib/appenders/hipchat.js b/lib/appenders/hipchat.js
index 95ad7c8..9a5e95c 100644
--- a/lib/appenders/hipchat.js
+++ b/lib/appenders/hipchat.js
@@ -1,22 +1,34 @@
 "use strict";
-var HipChatClient = require('hipchat-client');
+var hipchat = require('hipchat-notifier');
 var layouts = require('../layouts');
 
 exports.name = 'hipchat';
 exports.appender  = hipchatAppender;
 exports.configure = hipchatConfigure;
 
-//hipchat has more limited colors
-var colours = {
-  ALL: "grey",
-  TRACE: "purple",
-  DEBUG: "purple",
-  INFO: "green",
-  WARN: "yellow",
-  ERROR: "red",
-  FATAL: "red",
-  OFF: "grey"
-};
+/**
+  @invoke as
+  log4js.configure({
+    "appenders": [
+      {
+        "type" : "hipchat",
+        "hipchat_token": "< User token with Notification Privileges >",
+        "hipchat_room": "< Room ID or Name >",
+        // optionl
+        "hipchat_from": "[ additional from label ]",
+        "hipchat_notify": "[ notify boolean to bug people ]",
+        "hipchat_host" : "api.hipchat.com"
+      }
+    ]
+  });
+  @invoke
+ */
+
+function hipchatNotifierResponseCallback(err, response, body){
+  if(err) {
+    throw err;
+  }
+}
 
 function hipchatAppender(config, layout) {
 
@@ -26,20 +38,38 @@ function hipchatAppender(config, layout) {
 
   return function(loggingEvent) {
 
-    var data = {
-      room_id: _config.room_id,
-      from: _config.from,
-      message: layout(loggingEvent, _config.timezoneOffset),
-      format: _config.format,
-      color: colours[loggingEvent.level.toString()],
-      notify: _config.notify
-    };
+    notifier.setRoom(config.hipchat_room);
+    notifier.setRoom(config.hipchat_room);
+    notifier.setFrom(config.hipchat_from || '');
+    notifier.setNotify(config.hipchat_notify || false);
 
-    client.api.rooms.message(data, function(err, res) {
-      if (err) {
-        throw err;
-      }
-    });
+    if(config.hipchat_host) {
+      notifier.setHost(config.hipchat_host);
+    }
+
+    var notifierFn = "success";
+    switch (loggingEvent.level.toString()) {
+      case "TRACE":
+      case "DEBUG":
+        notifierFn = "notice";
+        break;
+      case "WARN":
+        notifierFn = "warning";
+        break;
+      case "ERROR":
+      case "FATAL":
+        notifierFn = "failure";
+        break;
+      default:
+        notifierFn = "info";
+    }
+
+    // @TODO, re-work in timezoneOffset ?
+    var layoutMessage = layout(loggingEvent);
+
+    // dispatch hipchat api request, do not return anything
+    //  [overide hipchatNotifierResponseCallback]
+    notifier[notifierFn](layoutMessage, hipchatNotifierResponseCallback);
   }
 }