Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord, Facebook, other messangers

https://www.reddit.com/r/KaiOS/comments/1g0rj3y/whatsapp_telegram_discord_facebook_other/

created by robwoj44 on 10/10/2024 at 19:52 UTC

16 upvotes, 5 top-level comments (showing 5)

Due to the shutdown of whatsapp I decided to test other possible solutions.

1. Regarding the native kaios applications currently we have telegram and discord.

2. So I tried two other solutions - matrix using bridge and xmpp using transports.

3. In the case of the matrix chooj client the problem is the lack of encryption, and unfortunately some bridge forced encryption by default and I could not change it. When the room is not encrypted it works correctly, but I was unable to find not encrypted bridge for whatsapp and others messangers.

4. In the case of xmpp it is not easy to register a transport due to the lack of information, especially regarding the login or sometimes other settings. Finally, after trial and errors, I managed to register 2 transports among them whatsapp. I used the xmpp client https://git.disroot.org/badrihippo/convo[1][2]

1: https://git.disroot.org/badrihippo/convo

2: https://git.disroot.org/badrihippo/convo

After registering the transport, you can see all whatsapp contacts and you can chat with each of them. Most likely all other transports available in xmpp (facebook, skype, teams, etc.) will also allow the same.

Comments

Comment by Tiny-Instance-315 at 11/10/2024 at 00:20 UTC

4 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Wait kaios has discord?

Comment by perry_______ at 11/10/2024 at 10:39 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

flop my webRTc app for using xmpp would be possible, the api does not look extremely complicated

https://github.com/strukturart/flop[1] https://github.com/xmppjs/xmpp.js/[2]

1: https://github.com/strukturart/flop

2: https://github.com/xmppjs/xmpp.js/

What stops me from using xmpp is, are there really enough users?

Comment by badrihippo at 16/10/2024 at 08:56 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Creator of Convo here. Thanks for trying this out! 😄

I don't use reddit much (especially after the whole AI data mining thing) but feel free to leave comments and I'll make sure to check back every so often.

After the renewed interest, I just published a "Release" with a ZIP file, since OP had trouble getting it working from the source code. You can access it here: https://git.disroot.org/badrihippo/convo/releases/tag/0.1.0-pre1[1][2] (download the file named convo-0.1.0-pre1.zip)

1: https://git.disroot.org/badrihippo/convo/releases/tag/0.1.0-pre1

2: https://git.disroot.org/badrihippo/convo/releases/tag/0.1.0-pre1

I also started an XMPP group chat for discussion (group chats are currently disabled in Convo, but I'll try to fix that). Link is in the above release page as well as the README!