I'm very tired of SMS being horrible and necessary. Matrix has a bridge for SMS, but it doesn't work very well. There's other SMS bridges, no idea how well they work.
Does anyone have a good solution for dealing with SMS?
I'm very tired of SMS being horrible and necessary. Matrix has a bridge for SMS, but it doesn't work very well. There's other SMS bridges, no idea how well they work.
Does anyone have a good solution for dealing with SMS?
17 Comments
pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org · 12 pts · 3y
You could consider using something like jmp.chat. It delivers SMS via XMPP (aka jabber), so you could self-host a XMPP server and receive SMS that way. It also has some support for MMS (group chat, media), but my experience with it was mixed (I used it for about 3-4 years).
butter@midwest.social · 1 pts · 3y
Would this require I leave my phone at home? Not a deal breaker, just curious.
pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org · 6 pts · 3y
No, but basically jmp.chat takes over your phone number... it acts as your carrier for voice and SMS (similar to Google Voice). Maybe not exactly what you want.
From the FAQ:
The benefit of this is that you can receive voice and text on anything that can serve as a XMPP client.
butter@midwest.social · 2 pts · 3y
That's nice. This might be my answer.
Elegast@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 3y
Beeper.com ? They have a selfhosted option. I'm using the non-self hosted as of today and it's been pretty great. Mainly sms bridge and discord bridge are what I have been using.
archengel@nichenerdery.duckdns.org · 2 pts · 3y
I'd second this, their SMS bridge has been working great for me too (also not yet self-hosted).
butter@midwest.social · 1 pts · 3y
I've signed up. Now I wait.
Elegast123@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 3y
@butter @Elegast it took me a while to get my invite. Probably about a month?
ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 3y
It's not (yet) a good solution, but I suffer with voip.ms, and it is slowly improving.
butter@midwest.social · 1 pts · 3y
Just curious. Do you pay for a separate data connection? Or do you manage to only exist in WiFi?
Cerothen@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3y
Have you tried the new SMS bridge that relies on gmessages?
https://github.com/mautrix/gmessages
If you have an Android phone you can use the Google SMS app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.messaging
Then you pair the app and bridge. It's been pretty reliable since I started using this bridge, especially when compared to the previous bridge options.
butter@midwest.social · 2 pts · 3y
Ooooo. No I haven't. Is it faster than the old bridge?
Cerothen@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3y
I don't know how slow the old one was, but if I send myself an SMS using the bridge it completes a round trip to the Telco and back in about 1 second
butter@midwest.social · 3 pts · 3y
That's good to know. Thank you
free@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
what benefit is this compared to leaving this as is with your telco? if you setup some solution wont your telco get a copy of sms anyway? it would be nice if telco can't see sms.
butter@midwest.social · 1 pts · 3y
As much as I love doing something that takes a bunch of work for privacy reasons, this is actually because cellular sucks. I have dead spots in my office and I can only reply from my phone
free@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
ah I see. so by connecting your sms to a wifi service eg xmpp or matrix bridge, you will get notification of sms. I think is what ur aiming at. tx.