How I'm now using Signal on UT

Moem

Unfortunately, there is currently no native, working Signal client for UT and this is unlikely to change soon. But if that's a problem that impacts you, read on! I found a solution that works well for me and maybe it will work for you, too.

My solution consists of several parts:

Signal for Android, running in Waydroid. You can download it from their webpage or from F-Droid or Aurora Store.
Signal Desktop running on several computers, and linked to the first Signal, which is the primary device. All others are secondary devices. You can have only one primary.
Cinny, running on UT, using a Matrix bridge to connect to Signal. This is very new to me and yet it was easy.

I followed these instructions given by Danfro:

For everyone here who is looking for an alternative to use Signal on Ubuntu Touch.
There is a matrix signal bridge hosted here: https://tchncs.de/matrix.
This can be used with Cinny or any other Matrix client. Instructions are given on the website there.
Because Cinny in OpenStore is quite outdated, feel free to use my updated version from the CI here: https://github.com/Danfro/cinny-click-packaging/actions.
Note: Some things do still not work. Image download is fine, but right now no other file types. I am working on it...

Open Cinny (or another matrix client)

create a new room

invite the bridge bot @signalbot:tchncs.de

open your primary signal device and head for settings, linked devices

add new device

got to chat with bridge bot and type "login" as message

scan the qr code with your primary device, it should now link them
Done.

I had an extra step because my primary is running in Waydroid and it's a pain generating and scanning a QR code on one and the same device, plus it refused to work. So I installed the latest Cinny on a spare phone and used that to link Cinny to Signal. It worked fine.

I hope this is useful to anyone else!

messayisto

@Moem thanks, I did the same yesterday and I am so glad to have signal back on my device this way. And you're so much better and faster than me in documenting it for other users - thanks for that, too.
By the way: I had to restart my device once for showing up Cinny in the setting list for notifications.

Moem

@messayisto said in How I'm now using Signal on UT:

I had to restart my device once for showing up Cinny in the setting list for notifications.

True! Good addition. Thanks for that, and for your kind words.