Do your chats look like this? Do you always forget which contacts use which apps? Do you wish there was a way to have all your chats in just one place?
In the following guide I’m going to show you how to use Matrix to achieve your dream of an all-in-one chat app, by using Matrix bridges and securing the connection with Cloudflare Tunnels.
Do you bridge your sms from your actual phone number or did you have to set up a new VoIP number or something like that?
I’ve tried these but I need MMSes and can’t figure out the alpha one with MMS.
I have a pinephone and found an okay one here. https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_MMS_with_Matrix#Set_up_MMS_bridge_service
It doesn’t work very well but I can ssh into the pinephone and restart it or mess with the modem as needed. You run a matrix server and its a python script on the phone that bridges messages to it. I hate using my phone so its super easy to put up with. I do wish it was written better… I’ve been considering either contributing to the project or making my own because it doesn’t seem very active.
Edit, sorry, so, I forward my calls to a VoIP number and I bridge SMS/MMS using the pinephone to a selfhosted matrix server. Id love to bridge m’y calls to matrix too but I can’t find anything that does that.
Thanks for that. I didn’t realize those bridges even existed! Did you try mautrix-gmessages at all? It looks like it supports mms and rcs and is actively developed.
I need to set up a new matrix server but I’ll probably give those a try too.
Having a pine phone would be pretty cool to have things like that to mess with.
No, i’ve never tried that one.
I do my best to stay far, far away from google. I have a used pixel 3 from ebay with GrapheneOS. No google play services or anything. I pay a company to host my mail (doing it myself wasn’t worth it). I don’t like to be the product and using the #1 advertising company services for free? Hard pass.