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SIGNALD(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual SIGNALD(7) NAME signald -- Daemon to facilitate communication via Signal Private Mes- senger SYNOPSIS pkg install signald DESCRIPTION Signald is an unofficial utility for interacting with Signal. It is a Java based daemon that is running in the background and is communicated to over a socket. This man page documents how the FreeBSD port is installed and how to get started. It assumes that the signald package was already in- stalled, e.g., from the FreeBSD package repo as described in "SYNOPSIS". GETTING STARTED To enable and start the service, run as root service signald enable service signald start Check log output: cat /var/log/signald/signald.log Install signaldctl, a command line tool that allows interacting with the service: pkg install go go install gitlab.com/signald/signald-go/cmd/signaldctl@latest LINKING A DEVICE To link an existing device (phone), first enter ~/go/bin/signaldctl account link then do "Select Linked Devices -> Link New Device" in the Signal smart- phone app's menu and scan the QR code shown on your terminal. REGISTERING A DEVICE WARNING: This disconnects other devices using the same MSISDN. • Open your web browser and enable developer mode • Go to https://signalcaptchas.org/registration/generate.html • Solve the captcha • Depending on your browser you are redirected to a URL starting with "signalcaptcha://" or it can be seen in the web developer console - everything after "//" is the captcha. Register your device using the captcha copied above: ~/go/bin/signaldctl account register [msisdn] --captcha [captcha] msisdn is your full mobile phone number with country code, e.g., +123456789. You will receive a text message containing a verification code on the MSISDN specified in the registration call above. Use this verification code ~/go/bin/signaldctl account verify [msisdn] [code] to complete the registration. SENDING A MESSAGE Use this command to send a message ~/go/bin/signaldctl message send -a [msisdn_from] [msisdn_to] [msg] You can also send a message to yourself when using a linked device, which will show up in "Note to Self", but not cause a notification, e.g., ~/go/bin/signaldctl message send -a +123456789 +123456789 "Beep beep" FILES /var/db/signald Signald database. /var/log/signald/signald.log Signald log output. /var/run/signald/signald.sock Socket to communicate with signald, world writable. SEE ALSO ports(7), daemon(8), service(8) Signald project website, https://signald.org. AUTHORS This manual page was written by Michael Gmelin <grembo@FreeBSD.org>. FreeBSD Ports 14.quarterly August 28, 2021 SIGNALD(7)
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | GETTING STARTED | LINKING A DEVICE | REGISTERING A DEVICE | SENDING A MESSAGE | FILES | SEE ALSO | AUTHORS
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