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What kind of customisations have you done?? 😳
I'm using various Matrix clients to access WhatsApp. In theory I could turn my account into a bot, but I don't want to deal with WhatsApp's bot detection. I could theoretically comment out the code that makes delete requests/retractions propagate or even warn that there was an attempted deletion, but I don't feel the need to.
This setup doesn't support calling, which is a shame. Maybe one day.
Does it support audio messages? or live location?
Seems great to me that it doesnt support calls :)
Live location isn't supported. Audio messages work though.
I don't know, I don't really use those features. Matrix itself supports audio messages and live location updates, and the bridge forwards the attachments I've sent through it, but I have no idea if the bridge actually manages to translate them into the right format.
Ty,
will still try and check it out
How does one go about to connect whatsapp to matrix and send msgs via it? Is there an article that I can read up on?
search for mautrix whatsapp (not a typo)
can you provide a playstore like for that? i searched but didn't get it from the results.
Mautrix whatsapp
It's not on the play store, you either host your own matrix server, sign up for the wait list on beeper.com or find a public matrix server that runs a WhatsApp bridge anyone can use
You can pay for Beeper or you can set up the bridges yourself as they're all open source.
There are Matrix bridges other people host that are free, but I wouldn't use those. Bridges decrypt and optionally re-encrypt messages, so the admin can read and even modify every message you send.
I'm fairly certain the whatsapp matrix bridge supports end to bridge encryption
It supports WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption and it supports Matrix's end-to-end encryption, but the two are not compatible.
The bridge receives the end-to-end encrypted messages from WhatsApp, puts them into end-to-end encrypted chats on the Matrix side, and the other way around. The messages get decrypted into memory where they're readable (for a short while).
Until WhatsApp enables some kind of cross-platform messaging protocol (MLS/MIMI perhaps?), the temporary decryption is essential for the bridge to work.