matter-bridge-simplex

This is adapter for matterbridge that adds support for SimpleX Chat.

• files not yet supported, but currently it can send images preview from simplex chat to matterbridge
• matterbridge version should be higher than 1.26.0 (although at this moment latest release is exactly 1.26.0, so you have to build matterbridge from master branch, which have fixes for api endpoint)

Preparation

Clone dependency library from simplex-chat repo (it is part of it) and build js from typescript:

git submodule update --init --recursive --depth 1
( cd lib/simplex-chat-client-typescript/ && npm install && tsc )

Usage

First start simplex chat (example on port 5225):

simplex-chat -p 5225

Then configure api endpoint in matterbridge:

[api.myapi]
BindAddress="127.0.0.1:4242"
Buffer=1000

[[gateway]]
name="gateway1"
enable=true

[[gateway.inout]]
account="api.myapi"
channel="api"

# also of course you must add the second end of the bridge. Here is example
for telegram: (for details read matterbridge docs)
#
# [telegram.mytg]
# Token="tg_bot_token"
# RemoteNickFormat="{NICK}: "
#
# [[gateway.inout]]
# account="telegram.mytg"
# channel="tg_channel_id"

Run matterbridge:

matterbridge -conf example.toml

And finally run our bridge between matterbridge api and simplex chat:

Format:

node main.js <MATTERBRIDGE_API_ADDRESS> <MATTERBRIDGE_GATEWAY> <SIMPLEX_LISTEN_ADDRESS> <SIMPLEX_CHAT_ID> <CHAT_TYPE (contact/group)>

Example:

node main.js 127.0.0.1:4242 gateway1 127.0.0.1:5225 1 group

P.S. getting simplex chat id is a little bit hard. You can try guess if you have few chats, or use next command to get list of them:

simplex-chat -e '/_get chats 1 pcc=off' | tail -n +2 | jq '.[].chatInfo | (.groupInfo // .contact) | [.groupId // .contactId, .localDisplayName]'