How I'm now using Signal on UT
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Hi @pparent
You have the possibility to host the bridge at home as far as I can tell.
That's the beauty and magic of Open Source Software...Of course it requires some time and efforts. One has to make their own security/privacy assessment.
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@danfro I do not fully remind the details but what I did was:
1- Erase all the app data on the UT Cinny (using UT Tweak Tool)
2- Remove the whatsapp bridge from Beeper (I had it installed on another phone to confirm the bridge was working, set up the configuration, etc). Not sure how I did but, if I remember well, there is an option on the network to remove whatsapp.
3- Reconfigured the Cinny on UT (i.e. to follow the steps to allow the encription topic)
4- To build the bridge with Whatsapp again on Beeper on the non UT phone
5- Open Cinny on UT phone.
That decrypted the messages on Cinny.
Later on, although I guess not mandatory nor needed, I removed Beeper installation from the non UT phone.
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@Moem (or perhaps @danfro) I tried this today, but I do not get a QR code as a response to the login message. Am I missing something?
I created an account at matrix.org, via the website of Cinny.
I installed Cinny on my FP4 (UT 20.04 OTA-7) from Open Store, the version is recent, so I did not download the click package as some people did further on in this thread.
I created a room and invited the bot.
I opened Signal on my old phone, clicked settings, linked devices and add new device. Then the Signal app appears to be ready to read a QR-code.
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@janmv are you trying the tchncs.de signal bridge? There where discussions in their matrix room during the last few days, that the maintainer of that server thought about blocking users from foreign (= non German) countries due to some very heavy spam happening recently.
I sadly saw some of the pics before they got redacted and got invites into rooms. Trust me those ... (I am struggling to write people, monsters would fit better) whatever need to be stopped. But sadly all of us are affected and suffer.So maybe they did make that happen and restricted access to the bot.
Note: I was assured, when I asked, that existing users are not affected.
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@Marcos Thanks for your detailed instructions. I take it, step 2 means to kick the bot user our of the space/room? I am not using beeper, so trying to find out the aquivalent for Cinny.
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@danfro Yes I am tryng the tchncs.de bridge. And from a German perspective I am foreign as well, and new. So this may well be the reason. How can I follow the developments?
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@janmv you can always contact the admin directly. I'm sure he wants to help normal users who want to use the bridge. I also asked about the whatsapp bridge. (don't forget to donate, it's a great service
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@janmv I joined their matrix community room at https://matrix.to/#/#tchncs:tchncs.de. Sadly recently a lot talk about spam protection, but that is where I asked and learned about that. I confirm, a friendly admin - unless your a spammer.
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@danfro Yes, that's it.!
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Cinny 2.1.3 (probably from open store back then) stopped working on my Xiaomi Mi A2 (Xenial 16.04 OTA-25). During app startup very briefly 'Looking for home server... Connecting to https://matrix-client.matrix.org...' then black app screen.
Is there eventually a newer version as click package available for my device? Any other idea, how to get Cinny back up and running again?
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@mschmids said in How I'm now using Signal on UT:
Any other idea, how to get Cinny back up and running again?
I would recommend starting a new topic. This topic is probably only interesting to people who use Signal. Not others who may also use Cinny.
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@Moem thanks, probably was not clear, as I use Cinny exactly for that purpose, discussed in this threat, i.e. to access Signal via the bridge.
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@mschmids I understand but this does not seem to be a problem with the bridge. It sounds like a Cinny problem, not like a Signal or bridge problem.
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@mschmids Better try cinny-ut from OpenStore, which is a much newer version.
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Oh, sorry, just saw that you are still on xenial. There is no xenial version of cinny-ut and there will not be one (at least not done by me).
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Thank you @danfro for taking your time. I tend to believe, that I did install the Cinny version 2.1.3, which was working perfectly fine until a couple of days ago, from the open store beginning this year, when this thread was started.
