From: AsamK Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 17:55:30 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Update README.md X-Git-Tag: v0.9.0~72 X-Git-Url: https://git.nmode.ca/signal-cli/commitdiff_plain/89d498f87d91c600ee13a52d867695932d8265ec?ds=sidebyside Update README.md --- diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f8eee725..9658dcba 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # 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 slave device](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-service-java/pull/21). +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 primarily intended to be used on servers to notify admins of important events. For this use-case, it has a dbus interface ([man page](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/blob/master/man/signal-cli-dbus.5.adoc)), that can be used to send messages from any programming language that has dbus bindings.