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Re: I built an iMessage bot using Beeper

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Post by A6gYPfxNas » Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 11:28 AM UTC

zwilliamson wrote: post #56

tylermenezes wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last I knew you could TECHNICALLY self-host everything but with little documentation on how to set it up.

Yes. Self-host using this Ansible playbook has been a joy. https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy A top notch well managed Ansible setup! It hasn’t integrated in a good iMessage bridge yet last I checked. Hopefully soon!

thanks for the heads up, i'm gonna give this a try! i tried to set up matrix before, but i just couldn't get it working ;(

Re: I built an iMessage bot using Beeper

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Post by dingusdew » Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 1:27 PM UTC

SaulJLH wrote: post #53

andwaal wrote: post #19

I have been using Beeper for 6 months or so now. In the start it had some bugs, but now they are more and more rare (I don't use iMessages). Overall an amazing product, with what seems like a very active and product team behind which constants pushes out new updates. Highly recommended 10/10!

Just don't be too critical, or exasperated... They'll quickly categorise it as rude/disrespectful. Ignore any & all contribution, refund, & then bump you in an instant. And they'll do all this in a ham-fisted & egotistical/condescending way. My experience of their culture, is it doesn't bode well LT.

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Re: I built an iMessage bot using Beeper

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Post by dingusdew » Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 2:28 PM UTC

jakecopp wrote: post #33

In case anyone doesn't know - the founder of Beeper is Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble! Beeper originated out of their troubles getting messaging on the Pebble working. > “We really wanted Pebble to be able to send iMessages, but we could never figure out a way to do it because there’s no API for iMessage,” he explains. But the idea for Beeper came to a head two years ago when he learned about a protocol calle…

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Re: I built an iMessage bot using Beeper

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Post by jacooper » Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 8:05 PM UTC

jacooper wrote: post #44

Beeper is just matrix + bridges, everything is open source except the client itself, which is a very big feature because element, the biggest element client is kinda crap.

Biggest matrix*

Re: I built an iMessage bot using Beeper

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Post by adamgoodapp » Sun, Apr 02, 2023, 6:14 AM UTC

yoavm wrote: post #58

I have my own Matrix & Bridges setup (just like Beeper but with too much maintenance). It's super easy to write bots that you can then hook into Signal, WhatsApp etc, because essentially you only need to talk to your Matrix server, and the bridges take care of the rest. Talking to Matrix is easy - there's a straightforward HTTP API. The other day I connected the matrix-chatgpt-bot ( https://github.com/matrixgpt/matri…

Any docs for hooking up a bot to WhatsApp? I have WhatsApp bridge running successfully and a python echo bot running that I can call in a Matrix room, but I can't invite the bot to a WhatsApp room, it says User is already in the space