I just set it up today. The docker setup was pretty easy and I got the telegram and WhatsApp bridge running so I have all my messages in one place. Signal bridge is next.
Is anyone else doing this?
I was looking at setting up one for the same reason, to have most of not all of my chat apps in the same place but I was only finding docs for the docker-ansible setup which isn’t really what I want. Can you share your docker-compose file or the docs you used to get everything setup?
Is there anywhere I can go to learn about what exactly Matrix is?
It’s not exactly easy to find with via search engine thanks to the movie
I used to do it, but not anymore as it was kind of clunky in my case. But I used dendrite as the matrix server rather than Synapse, so that’s most likely the reason.
I ended up moving the database on a separate host rather than using SQLite, and it added way too much latency to the whole system. Storage was also a big issue in my case, as all media received by the bridges are stored locally, and boy does it grow fast in my case haha.
When dendrite reaches a more mature state, I’ll 100% do it again though !
I’ll have to look out for the media storage issue. Do you know of any way to clean it up periodically?
I never looked it up. I used to delete media from the folder from a crontab when they were older than a month, but I had errors in the dendrite and bridge logs (though the application seemed to work “fine”). Don’t let it fill up though, because it completely fucked up my dendrite install and I had to reinstall and reconfigure all bridges from scratch when it happened.
For the whatsapp bridge, don’t you require a phone on 24/7?
Since Whatsapp added multi-client support this is AFAIK not needed anymore.
How recent is this? When I had a bridge running it would bug me about WhatsApp having been offline for 12 days, and to re-connect before 14 days pass
It requires that you open Whatsapp at least every 2 weeks to refresh the token. The bridge will even send you a message to remind you that before it’s too late.
I’ve installed it in the last few days. Got the Discord and WhatsApp bridge up and running. About to give the iMessage bridge a go. It’s been fairly smooth sailing so far!
Honestly I’d probably host my own Matrix if Conduit wasn’t still so behind on stuff. Like, I think they still don’t support spaces properly, right?
Even Dendrite feels far too heavy and that’s intended to be the “light” option compared to Synapse, which needs an entire server onto itself to have any kind of speed behind it.
Synapse really isn’t that bad unless you’re joining big rooms. I held off for ages because I thought it was a pig, but I have it running (along with a bunch of other stuff) just fine on a minimal VPS.
I’ve also got synapse running on my small home server, together with about 40 other things in docker containers. CPU sits idle at 5%
