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I have a Matrix homeserver running on an Odroid XU4 that sits under my TV. I also have bridge servers running for iMessage, Slack, and Hangouts (which includes

I have a Matrix homeserver running on an Odroid XU4 that sits under my TV. I also have bridge servers running for iMessage, Slack, and Hangouts (which includes Google Voice) that connect those services into Matrix. Being able to see and respond to all my messages from all those services while I'm ssh'd into a weechat client is surreal and amazing. Going back to tapping out messages on my phone in iMessage or opening up the god-awful hangouts web client that shows my chat in a phone-sized window even on my 43 inch monitor feels like a joke at this point. For now, that kind of setup isn't really accessible to a non-technical user, but even so it's the killer feature. Matrix has a few rough edges, but it genuinely feels like it's growing into something that is objectively better than all the other proprietary services out there.

dcbadacd 8y ago
I have made a similar setup with IRC. I have set up bitlbee with Facebook, Telegram, Hangouts and Steam plugins, bitlbee is connected to quassel-core and I use native Quassel clients on all my platforms to connect to the core (trough VPN if needed). The only rough edge I have with this setup is that I lose video playback in client compared to say Messenger or TG. Maybe one day...
- mikenew 8y ago
  How well does the Steam integration work? I haven't tried setting up a bridge yet, but even on the web client I constantly get logged out.
  - Y_Y 8y ago
    Ironically the native client constantly logs me in, even when I don't want to. I've never wanted to be Online or Available, but ever since they shipped the new "Friends" thing it's made quite difficult.
- kuschku 8y ago
  Video playback for quasseldroid is actually something I'm working on right now :)
nlefler 8y ago
What bridges do you use for iMessage, slack, and Hangouts?
- mikenew 8y ago
  All three are the puppet bridges from here: https://github.com/matrix-hacks https://github.com/matrix-hacks. The Hangouts and Slack bridges run on the odroid, same as synapse, and iMessage runs on an old mac mini I bought off of ebay. The docs could be better, but I didn't find them too terribly hard to set up. If you decide to try it out and need any help feel free to ask around in #matrix-puppet-bridge:matrix.org
jancsika 8y ago
> Going back to tapping out messages on my phone in iMessage ...turns you back into a first class iMessage citizen. Meaning better security, more features, and a special color for the messages to signal all that to your recipients with an iphone.
- shakna 8y ago
  > Meaning better security, more features If I'm understanding you correctly, are you suggesting that iMessages has a superior security protocol than Matrix?
  - yoz-y 8y ago
    iMessage + Matrix definitely has a larger attack surface than just iMessage
    - trumped 8y ago
      But using Matrix, cant you more easily have multiple users posting from the same account?
  - jancsika 8y ago
    It has nothing to do with the protocol of Matrix. * OP has an iphone and some kind of non-iphone messaging interface accessed through ssh which can somehow send messages to iphone users through iMessage * OP prefers to use the non-iphone messaging interface to send messages to iMessage recipients (I'm assuming both OP and recipients are using a modern generation of the iphone) I'm saying that-- as it stands today-- OP is accepting a decrease in security by sending to the iMessage recipients from the non-iphone setup instead of from OP's iphone. Regardless of the security protocol of Matrix and regardless of which client OP is using, what I'm claiming will be true. It's also trivial to refute-- if I'm wrong then the messages OP is sending from their custom box should show up with a blue background in iMessage on the recipient's iphone. Is that the case or not?
    - ryukafalz 8y ago

dcbadacd 8y ago

I have made a similar setup with IRC. I have set up bitlbee with Facebook, Telegram, Hangouts and Steam plugins, bitlbee is connected to quassel-core and I use native Quassel clients on all my platforms to connect to the core (trough VPN if needed). The only rough edge I have with this setup is that I lose video playback in client compared to say Messenger or TG. Maybe one day...

mikenew 8y ago
How well does the Steam integration work? I haven't tried setting up a bridge yet, but even on the web client I constantly get logged out.
- Y_Y 8y ago
  Ironically the native client constantly logs me in, even when I don't want to. I've never wanted to be Online or Available, but ever since they shipped the new "Friends" thing it's made quite difficult.
kuschku 8y ago
Video playback for quasseldroid is actually something I'm working on right now :)

nlefler 8y ago

What bridges do you use for iMessage, slack, and Hangouts?

mikenew 8y ago
All three are the puppet bridges from here: https://github.com/matrix-hacks https://github.com/matrix-hacks. The Hangouts and Slack bridges run on the odroid, same as synapse, and iMessage runs on an old mac mini I bought off of ebay. The docs could be better, but I didn't find them too terribly hard to set up. If you decide to try it out and need any help feel free to ask around in #matrix-puppet-bridge:matrix.org

jancsika 8y ago

> Going back to tapping out messages on my phone in iMessage ...turns you back into a first class iMessage citizen. Meaning better security, more features, and a special color for the messages to signal all that to your recipients with an iphone.

shakna 8y ago
> Meaning better security, more features If I'm understanding you correctly, are you suggesting that iMessages has a superior security protocol than Matrix?
- yoz-y 8y ago
  iMessage + Matrix definitely has a larger attack surface than just iMessage
  - trumped 8y ago
    But using Matrix, cant you more easily have multiple users posting from the same account?
- jancsika 8y ago
  It has nothing to do with the protocol of Matrix. * OP has an iphone and some kind of non-iphone messaging interface accessed through ssh which can somehow send messages to iphone users through iMessage * OP prefers to use the non-iphone messaging interface to send messages to iMessage recipients (I'm assuming both OP and recipients are using a modern generation of the iphone) I'm saying that-- as it stands today-- OP is accepting a decrease in security by sending to the iMessage recipients from the non-iphone setup instead of from OP's iphone. Regardless of the security protocol of Matrix and regardless of which client OP is using, what I'm claiming will be true. It's also trivial to refute-- if I'm wrong then the messages OP is sending from their custom box should show up with a blue background in iMessage on the recipient's iphone. Is that the case or not?
  - ryukafalz 8y ago