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XMPP and whatsapp bridge (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone! I currently selfhost a matrix server but, seeing everyone talking about xmpp, I decided to try again with that one. I did try about 8-9 years ago but couldn't make it work (don't remember the issue, probably pebkac).

My requirements are:

e2ee (I see OMEMO is the solution for this);
audio/video calls (looks like all the main clients/servers supports this with SIP or similar);
whatsapp bridge: this is very important as I currently use my matrix with element to chat (not calls) with all the whatsapp contacts.

Would be nice if the server runs with docker images (but I see Prosody has the option so not an issue).

So basically I am a bit stumped only on the whatsapp bridge thing. I see some github repos for that but they all seem quite old.

Any help, pointers, suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

https://slidge.im/slidge-whatsapp/ Is what you want to use for WhatsApp right now. The Slidge gateway framework works best with Prosody currently, however to be honest Prosody's Docker support isn't great, but you can easily install it from a distribution repository.

There is the Prosody "distribution" called Snikket that does have well working containers, but it isn't that easy to get it to work with Slidge currently. But maybe try it out with Snikket first, and if you like the normal use, you can try to recreate a similar setup with vanilla Prosody and the Slidge gateway.