# signal-cli
-signal-cli is a commandline interface for [libsignal-service-java](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-service-java). It supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages. To be able to receiving messages signal-cli uses a [patched libsignal-service-java](https://github.com/AsamK/libsignal-service-java), because libsignal-service-java [does not yet support registering for the websocket support](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-service-java/pull/5) nor [provisioning as a slave device](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-service-java/pull/21). For registering you need a phone number where you can receive SMS or incoming calls.
-It is primarily intended to be used on servers to notify admins of important events. For this use-case, it has a dbus interface, that can be used to send messages from any programming language that has dbus bindings.
+signal-cli is a commandline interface for [libsignal-service-java](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-service-java). It supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages.
+To be able to link to an existing Signal-Android/signal-cli instance, signal-cli uses a [patched libsignal-service-java](https://github.com/AsamK/libsignal-service-java), because libsignal-service-java does not yet support [provisioning as a slave device](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-service-java/pull/21).
+For registering you need a phone number where you can receive SMS or incoming calls.
+signal-cli is primarily intended to be used on servers to notify admins of important events. For this use-case, it has a dbus interface, that can be used to send messages from any programming language that has dbus bindings.
## Installation
-You can [build signal-cli](#building) yourself, or use the provided binary files, which should work on Linux, macOS and Windows. For Arch Linux there is also a [package in AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/signal-cli/). You need to have at least JRE 7 installed, to run signal-cli.
+You can [build signal-cli](#building) yourself, or use the [provided binary files](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases/latest), which should work on Linux, macOS and Windows. For Arch Linux there is also a [package in AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/signal-cli/). You need to have at least JRE 7 installed, to run signal-cli.
### Install system-wide on Linux
+See [latest version](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases).
```sh
-export VERSION=<latest version, e.g. "0.4.0">
+export VERSION=<latest version, format "x.y.z">
wget https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases/download/v"${VERSION}"/signal-cli-"${VERSION}".tar.gz
sudo tar xf signal-cli-"${VERSION}".tar.gz -C /opt
sudo ln -sf /opt/signal-cli-"${VERSION}"/bin/signal-cli /usr/local/bin/
## Usage
-usage: signal-cli [-h] [-v] [--config CONFIG] [-u USERNAME | --dbus | --dbus-system] {link,addDevice,listDevices,removeDevice,register,verify,send,quitGroup,updateGroup,receive,daemon} ...
+Important: The USERNAME (your phone number) must include the country calling code, i.e. the number must start with a "+" sign. (See [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes) for a list of all country codes.
* Register a number (with SMS verification)
signal-cli -u USERNAME register
-* Register a number (with voice verification)
-
- signal-cli -u USERNAME register -v
-
* Verify the number using the code received via SMS or voice
signal-cli -u USERNAME verify CODE
-* Send a message to one or more recipients
+* Send a message
- signal-cli -u USERNAME send -m "This is a message" [RECIPIENT [RECIPIENT ...]] [-a [ATTACHMENT [ATTACHMENT ...]]]
+ signal-cli -u USERNAME send -m "This is a message" RECIPIENT
* Pipe the message content from another process.
- uname -a | signal-cli -u USERNAME send [RECIPIENT [RECIPIENT ...]]
+ uname -a | signal-cli -u USERNAME send RECIPIENT
* Receive messages
signal-cli -u USERNAME receive
-* Groups
-
- * Create a group
-
- signal-cli -u USERNAME updateGroup -n "Group name" -m [MEMBER [MEMBER ...]]
-
- * Update a group
-
- signal-cli -u USERNAME updateGroup -g GROUP_ID -n "New group name" -a "AVATAR_IMAGE_FILE"
-
- * Add member to a group
-
- signal-cli -u USERNAME updateGroup -g GROUP_ID -m "NEW_MEMBER"
-
- * Leave a group
-
- signal-cli -u USERNAME quitGroup -g GROUP_ID
-
- * Send a message to a group
-
- signal-cli -u USERNAME send -m "This is a message" -g GROUP_ID
-
-* Linking other devices (Provisioning)
-
- * Connect to another device
-
- signal-cli link -n "optional device name"
-
- This shows a "tsdevice:/…" link, if you want to connect to another signal-cli instance, you can just use this link. If you want to link to and Android device, create a QR code with the link (e.g. with [qrencode](https://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/)) and scan that in the Signal Android app.
-
- * Add another device
-
- signal-cli -u USERNAME addDevice --uri "tsdevice:/…"
-
- The "tsdevice:/…" link is the one shown by the new signal-cli instance or contained in the QR code shown in Signal-Desktop or similar apps.
- Only the master device (that was registered directly, not linked) can add new devices.
-
- * Manage linked devices
-
- signal-cli -u USERNAME listDevices
-
- signal-cli -u USERNAME removeDevice -d DEVICE_ID
-
-## DBus service
-
-signal-cli can run in daemon mode and provides an experimental dbus interface.
-For dbus support you need jni/unix-java.so installed on your system (Debian: libunixsocket-java ArchLinux: libmatthew-unix-java (AUR)).
-
-* Run in daemon mode (dbus session bus)
-
- signal-cli -u USERNAME daemon
-
-* Send a message via dbus
-
- signal-cli --dbus send -m "Message" [RECIPIENT [RECIPIENT ...]] [-a [ATTACHMENT [ATTACHMENT ...]]]
-
-### System bus
-
-To run on the system bus you need to take some additional steps.
-It’s advisable to run signal-cli as a separate unix user, the following steps assume you created a user named *signal-cli*.
-These steps, executed as root, should work on all distributions using systemd.
-
-```bash
-cp data/org.asamk.Signal.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/
-cp data/org.asamk.Signal.service /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/
-cp data/signal.service /etc/systemd/system/
-sed -i -e "s|%dir%|<INSERT_INSTALL_PATH>|" -e "s|%number%|<INSERT_YOUR_NUMBER>|" /etc/systemd/system/signal.service
-systemctl daemon-reload
-systemctl enable signal.service
-systemctl reload dbus.service
-```
-
-Then just execute the send command from above, the service will be autostarted by dbus the first time it is requested.
+For more information read the [man page](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/blob/master/man/signal-cli.1.adoc) and the [wiki](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki).
## Storage
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