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I just read a review of Beeper¹ and I’m now thinking about SMS integration into #Conversations_im in the form of forwarding (mirroring) your SMS to your other #XMPP clients. (For example your desktop client or a tablet that runs Conversations but doesn’t have a SIM card.)

Obviously this would need buy in from at least one desktop client to display forwarded messages (@gajim, @dino).

Do you think this is something you would use?

¹: https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/20/24106219/beeper-beta-android-app-chat-messaging


Beeper couldn’t bring iMessage to Android — but it can still make a great chat app

After taking on Apple, Beeper has returned to its original goal of building a chat app for Android that encompasses messages from social platforms and your RCS / SMS service.
Emma Roth (The Verge)

  • Yes (48%, 59 votes)
  • No (I don’t use SMS) (41%, 51 votes)
  • No (other reasons. see reply) (9%, 12 votes)
122 voters. Poll end: 1 month ago

#xmpp #conversations_im @Dino @Gajim
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Wolf480pl
Wolf480pl
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I don't write SMSes long enough that having a proper keyboard would make a difference
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Ténno Seremélʹ
Ténno Seremélʹ
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No. I prefer my SMS stay where they are – inside their own ugly domain, untouched by programs unrelated to it.
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Nicoco
Nicoco
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💯 I would definitely use it and I can try to implement it in @gajim but my MR would have to be approved by lovetox.
@Gajim
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Radasbona
Radasbona
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sms weniger. beantrag doch lieber den Interoperabilitätszugang bei meta. die hoffen ja imo das den keiner will/kennt.
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Frank 🛩️🪂⛵🛵🎿🔭
Frank 🛩️🪂⛵🛵🎿🔭
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I voted 'Yes' (and I use SMS), but I would prefer this to be a standalone app. I love #Conversations_im and I don't consider this as a core functionality. So, this would better be a standalone SMS2XMPP app, or some SMS-messaging-app with integrated forward to XY (= XMPP, email, REST, etc...) functionality.
#conversations_im
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Robin Hüskes
Robin Hüskes
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I loved Notify2Jabber from fdroid that did this and more. Sadly it stopped working on Pixel 8. So YES, as it solves half of my problems 🤗
@gajim @dino
@Dino @Gajim
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Frank 🛩️🪂⛵🛵🎿🔭
Frank 🛩️🪂⛵🛵🎿🔭
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If not, have another separate version of the client:
There is
"Conversations",
and
"Quicksy",
why not
"Conversations Exchange"
as a suite to collect ALL communications. 😉
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J👀
J👀
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I actually already do something like this based on the #app SMS to URL forwarder (https://f-droid.org/packages/tech.bogomolov.incomingsmsgateway/). The URL corresponds to a very simple endpoint (a CGI written in Bash!) that receives the SMS details and resends it to a #XMPP MUC.

My use case is that I have a mobile phone with an overseas SIM card that I keep at home while I want to know when it receives a SMS.

So having this functionality as part of #Conversations_im would be great.


SMS to URL Forwarder | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

simple incoming SMS to URL forwarder
f-droid.org
#xmpp #app #conversations_im
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Sam Whited
Sam Whited
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before I used jmp.chat full time I would have loved this as a standalone feature, and even now I get the occasional SMS from my sim card provider even though I can't get SMS from others at that number, so having it in Conversations along with my actual SMS's would be great! If I receive a mix of bridged SMS's with Cheogram and direct sim-card SMS's and I'm replying from the desktop I wonder if it would be confusing which number is going to be used to reply?
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Julini
Julini
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I voted no because I don't use desktop XMPP clients anymore. Apart from that, I also use SMS only rarely.
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Peter Vágner
Peter Vágner
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@Debacle @J👀 @Nicoco @xıʃǝɟ @Daniel Gultsch I have used android-sms bridge from beeper however now it appears this is built into their app and this sms-bridge that can use my phone sms is no longer in development. Thus this would be a super #conversations feature I must say.
https://gitlab.com/beeper/android-sms/
#conversations @Debacle @Daniel Gultsch @J👀 @Nicoco @xıʃǝɟ
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Mazhe
Mazhe
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Voted yes, but wouldn't that kind of access open another can of worms from google reviewers?
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Bob Jonkman
Bob Jonkman
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3) No. I don't use SMS much, but when I do I want to keep it as far away from my daily computing as possible. No love for cell providers...

@gajim @dino

@Dino @Gajim
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hudhud1621
hudhud1621
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absolutly not. No use of sms at all. How an encrypted platform think of plan text. For God sake, donot commit this sin.
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