From: AsamK Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 17:00:56 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Update README.md X-Git-Tag: v0.11.8~6 X-Git-Url: https://git.nmode.ca/signal-cli/commitdiff_plain/6106e1878bcb5ad3c28fd74fdf44c6dde971fff6?ds=sidebyside Update README.md --- diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a2799d4a..093b0eef 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,15 +1,14 @@ # 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 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 linked 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 a commandline interface for the [Signal messenger](https://signal.org/). +It supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages. +signal-cli uses a [patched libsignal-service-java](https://github.com/Turasa/libsignal-service-java), +extracted from the [Signal-Android source code](https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/libsignal/service). +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 daemon mode with D-BUS -interface ([man page](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/blob/master/man/signal-cli-dbus.5.adoc)) and JSON-RPC interface ([documentation](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/JSON-RPC-service)). For the JSON-RPC interface there's also a simple [example client](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/tree/master/client), written in Rust. +interface ([man page](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/blob/master/man/signal-cli-dbus.5.adoc)) and JSON-RPC interface ([documentation](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/JSON-RPC-service)). +For the JSON-RPC interface there's also a simple [example client](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/tree/master/client), written in Rust. ## Installation