X-Git-Url: https://git.nmode.ca/signal-cli/blobdiff_plain/eabd361405a54a5b7122bf537cb299306f098e45..2972dd27c11aa745b72fb3c6e0a37c44ac95c3f1:/README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f951669d..dea9d145 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ # signal-cli -signal-cli is a commandline interface for [libtextsecure-java](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libtextsecure-java). It supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages. To be able to receiving messages signal-cli uses a [patched libtextsecure-java](https://github.com/AsamK/libtextsecure-java), because libtextsecure-java [does not yet support registering for the websocket support](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libtextsecure-java/pull/5). For registering you need a phone number where you can receive SMS or incoming calls. +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. ## Usage -usage: signal-cli [-h] [-u USERNAME] [-v] {register,verify,send,quitGroup,updateGroup,receive} ... +usage: signal-cli [-h] [-v] [--config CONFIG] [-u USERNAME | --dbus | --dbus-system] {link,addDevice,listDevices,removeDevice,register,verify,send,quitGroup,updateGroup,receive,daemon} ... * Register a number (with SMS verification) @@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ usage: signal-cli [-h] [-u USERNAME] [-v] {register,verify,send,quitGroup,update * Pipe the message content from another process. uname -a | signal-cli -u USERNAME send [RECIPIENT [RECIPIENT ...]] + +* Receive messages + + signal-cli -u USERNAME receive * Groups @@ -37,10 +41,35 @@ usage: signal-cli [-h] [-u USERNAME] [-v] {register,verify,send,quitGroup,update signal-cli -u USERNAME updateGroup -g GROUP_ID -n "New group name" + * 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. @@ -78,6 +107,10 @@ The password and cryptographic keys are created when registering and stored in t $HOME/.config/signal/data/ +For legacy users, the old config directory is used as a fallback: + + $HOME/.config/textsecure/data/ + ## Building This project uses [Gradle](http://gradle.org) for building and maintaining @@ -104,8 +137,8 @@ If you use a version of the Oracle JRE and get an InvalidKeyException you need t ## License -This project uses libtextsecure-java from Open Whisper Systems: +This project uses libsignal-service-java from Open Whisper Systems: -https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libtextsecure-java +https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-service-java Licensed under the GPLv3: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html