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I think you've got Beeper Mini mixed up with other iMessage bridges. The whole thing with Beeper Mini (vs other iMessage bridges) was that it was entirely clien
by lelandbatey 3y ago
I think you've got Beeper Mini mixed up with other iMessage bridges. The whole thing with Beeper Mini (vs other iMessage bridges) was that it was entirely client side on the phone, no server to block. So the "IPs Beeper Mini was using to connect to the APN service", those IPs were just the IP addresses of every individual phone with Beeper Mini installed on it, no centralized place to block.
- kaladin-jasnah 3y agoNo, the BPN server is a server side service that persistently recieves APNs to forward to the phone (that don't contain the message data) since unlike iPhones, Android phones can't persistently check for APNs (at least that's what I understood from the announcement article). AIUI that's what you're paying for. But that wouldn't explain why sending is broken.
- rezonant 3y agoThe How It Works article is clear that BPNs is only used to serve push to your phone when the app isn't running. Disabling it would not cause send/receive failures.
- pxeboot 3y agoIf you check the How it Works post, they do show the Beeper Push Notification Service running in the cloud [1] to intercept 'new message available' APNs and then notify the Android device a new message is available. [1] https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works
- rezonant 3y agoOnly required when Mini isn't running.
- wkat4242 3y agoIf it were purely client based, why did I leave to log in with Google to something then?