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?
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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.
Ooooo. No I haven’t. Is it faster than the old bridge?
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
That’s good to know. Thank you
It’s not (yet) a good solution, but I suffer with voip.ms, and it is slowly improving.
Just curious. Do you pay for a separate data connection? Or do you manage to only exist in WiFi?
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.
I’ve signed up. Now I wait.
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.
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
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.
