Need help at start: Text messages receiving at and sending from self written python program

Support in English
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Hello,

I hope, this category is correct. If not, please tell me or move this to the correct place.

I have written a python (version 3.15) program, that creates events, of which I would like to get informed, even if not close. (In further future I would like to be able to send answers and maybe interchange images or even do a kind of video-calls. Those are not that important for now, but one of the reasons, why I try Jami and not something less complex.)

My system is for now LinuxMint 22.1 “Xia”, but it all should run later on an RaspberryPi 4b+ (8GB, current Rasbian OS with GUI).

I already installed and run jamid (found it with d-feet as “cx.ring.Ring” at the dbus).
As far as I understand (and that may be not so far at all), jamid should know, whose messages it should receive or send. How do I give that information to jamid? If I understood it wrong: How does it work?

I downloaded jami-daemon-master as zip (I do not want to use git in this case, because I want to prevent accidentally damaging anything) and got jamictrl/controller.py to “run” (F5 in VisualStudio Code) without error (means all imports seem to work).

Thanks for all, who read all that and please excuse, if the text is hard to understand: English is not my native language, but I assume, it is the language with the absolute largest number of people reading and therefore potentially answering.

Best regards
Tonteria

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In “cx.ring.Ring.ConfigurationManager” you can use “sendMessage”.

First parameter is “account id” then “conversationId”

For account id, you need first to create a new Jami account. Check with d-feet, you can check all methods available.

For conv_id you need a conversation first.

To do it, you can play with startConversation/addConversationMember

Or acceptConversationRequest/getConversationsRequests first

Then once you have a conversation with an account, you can use sendMessage

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you can also use sendTextMessage which does’nt need a conversation…
I use that feature via a wrapper for d-bus: jami-cli/jami-dbus.py at main · jchdel/jami-cli · GitHub

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(would rather not as it’s a pre-swarm/deprecated API) and not synced across devices.

I did an old wrapper (unmaintained for 5/6 years, but should still work for basic conv)

GitHub - AmarOk1412/jami-cli: Jami client for terminal · GitHub ; with the dbus wrapper GitHub - AmarOk1412/jami-rs: crate for communicating with jami-daemon through dbus · GitHub

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Thanks a lot for your help!
I in fact got messages sent from a Python app to the Jami app at my mobile phone and receive text messages in python sent from the mobile phone. :smiley:
Thanks you so much!

(Next I’ll try to send a file/image from python to mobile phone, but that’s an other story :slight_smile:)