On 2023-03-28 15:56, Liam Proven wrote:
On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 at 14:13, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
Well, whatsapp is gratis, but there is no CLI client.
There is a Pidgin plugin. I never got it to work.
Telegram is too complicated.
Telegram is my preferred IM. There is a Pidgin plugin and it works fine.
But can't be called from a script, AFAIK. There is telegram-desktop. I have first to pair that with the phone, it is not standalone. Then it works, as a duplicate of the phone. I don't know when it asks to be paired again. And would send the message to a different phone. I will have to try that pidgin plugin. I just had a look, I don't have such plugin. I can add accounts to Bonjour, Gadu-gadu, Google-Talk (huh?), GroupWise, IRC, SIMPLE, XMPP, Zephyr.
There is Matrix. There is a Pidgin plugin which I did not get to fully work. However, it is part of the current Thunderbird and works fine. There are multiple free phone clients.
And there is Signal, which is free to use, and there is a Linux client which works fine on openSUSE. It does not work with anything else but it works on all smartphones.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)> Signal is coupled to a phone number, so I guess the Linux client would be paired to the same number as the phone, would be the same account. Same as Telegram. How would then I send a message from computer to phone? And it has to be from a script. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.4)