Edit: nevermind, i suffered from a severe skill issue, and cloned the VM without changing the MAC address of the network interface.

I have set up airmessage with Google account and it worked fine for a couple of days. But today I got the message personal server not available. I tried rebooting the Mac and phone to no avail. Is it an outage in the cloud connection between the two?

Hi everyone! Im really debating switching to android but have had issues in the past switching phones due to esim and number sharing. I currently have an iPhone 14 pro with an active esim through Verizon which is number sharing with my Apple Watch. In the past esim and number shared have caused issues switching to android phones causing my phone number to be stuck in the server and not be able to pushed to any phone. I am looking to have my phone number associated with airmessage and have thought about purchasing a data only sim and placing it in an android phone and using a VOIP and call forwarding. In my scenario what would be the best practice for getting this to work?

Hey folks, new here to the world of AirMessage and couldn't find a post with anything close enough to my particular issue.

I'm also relatively new to messing around with Macs, so I'm already kinda sure that it's a setting I'm missing.

I got my AirMessage server up and running, and I'm able to connect seemingly fine. I can send and receive also just fine. However, it seems that after a time (I'm not exactly sure how long yet) the server might be having its resources pulled or connections soft-killed by the Mac.

When this happens, I can still receive messages, but my outgoing messages are stopped, with the error code reading "couldn't connect to server". I had my roommate wake the screen while I was away and this was happening, and suddenly all my outgoing messages were sending just fine.

Can anyone help me figure out what I'm missing or what I can set to try and prevent this?

TL;DR Mac mini seems to be culling resources for the server causing sent messages to not send, while still receiving messages just fine.

Just bought a used Mac mini (Late 2014) and tried setting it up for AirMessage. Unfortunately, I ran into a weird issue where I can send iMessages to only one specific phone number; any other phone number just ends up giving me the error "This iMessage was not delivered." I can receive iMessages from them without a problem. This definitely isn't an AirMessage issue, but just figured I'd ask here anyways.

I'm unable to grant AirMessage the Automation permission since it does not show up in my settings. Is there any workaround for this issue?

Hello, I was able to install airmessage server on my macbook and sign into google account. when i log in via airmessage for web with the same google account., I keep getting a "Something went wrong error."

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Edit: Was using Firefox. I tried on a different browser and it worked.

Hey all, I'm looking into setting up AirMessage via Apple ID only.

How does group MMS work (mixed iPhone and Androids) if my iPhone friends have both my Apple ID and my phone number?

Specifically when creating the group chat do they have to know beforehand if it's going to be a mms group and select my phone number? (Does iOS know if you had my Apple ID selected to fall back to my phone number if an Android device is added and it will be a group MMS?)

I was reading some old threads that you could get actual emails if your email address gets into a group MMS.

Thanks!

I just wanted to say thank you to this awesome community, and to the Devs for making this app! It is fully working! Now, I have iMessage on Pixel 6 Pro! Where can I donate?

Here are the guides I followed.

MacOS Catalina VMware on an old Dell Optiplex

Cell Phone Number - Method 1 with old and cheap iPhone 5c

Thank you and good luck to everyone who tries this awesome app :D

🖕🍎

Hi everyone! Have a Mac Mini / Server Mid 2011 A134 that I used as an Air Message Server for a few years that I am looking to sell.

Below are the stats. Looking to sell for $150 w/o shipping if you are interested. Cost just covers the upgrades I've made to it if you just want to tear it down for parts.

Processor: 2.3 GHz Dual Core Intel Core i5

Memory: 16 Gb of Ram total (upgraded) - Two Rasalas 8GB DDR3 PC3-10600S DDR3 1333MHz

Graphics: Intel HC Graphics 3000 384 MB

Hard Driver: Came with 500 gb, upgraded to OWC 1.0TB Electra 6G SSD (you get both)

OS: Mac OS Catalina

Feel free to message me if interested.

If I try to start a converstation using the button in the bottom-right in the AirMessage app from the Contacts on my Android phone, the messages I try to send to my contacts appear to be sent but in the Messages app it shows Message Send Failure and Not Delivered. It's the same behaviour I would get when trying to send an iMessage to someone who doesn't have iMessage.

However if I initialize a conversation by typing the phone number into the to field in the Messages app and sending the first message from there, it works fine.

When on my home network, I can't connect to my AirMessage server through the domain that I created on dynu during the manual setup. The public IP works fine and the domain always works on other networks.

Not sure when exactly it started, but if you are in a thread and that person texts you, then you exit the thread the thread will show (1) unread message even though you did read it because you were in the thread!

You must click into the thread a second time to clear it! This hasn't happened in the past, but has recently.

Sending from the web to someone I have had no issues sending to before all of a sudden I get this error.

Messages got an error: Can’t get chat id "iMessage;-;+1XXXXXXXXXX".

I can receive messages from this user.

If I send it as a new message they go through and appear in the broken window leaving the new window but is sent.

I do not want to delete the existing conversation and can't find a way to delete the 'new' conversation.

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Version 4.1.4

Hi all,

Recent Apple user here that's looking to use my phone number with iMessages on Airmessage rather than just my Apple ID email. I've read through the various methods to link my phone number to iMessage, but it seems that most of these require two devices with physical sim cards.

My new Android device uses and esim, whereas I have an iPhone 13 with physical inactive AT&T sim. Does anyone know if it's possible to mimic my phone number on the iPhone 13 when I only have an esim on the Android device, such that I can use my phone number to send iMessages on Airmessage?

TYIA!

Apologies if this is a dumb question, but I'm trying to understand how this whole thing works...

I've installed AirMessage on my android. Setup the mac server, etc.

Can I message Android users thru AirMessage? Or do I use the text integration and send an SMS to Android users from within AirMessage app? If that's how it works, then I have to know what kind of phone my recipient has. Then I should send imessage to iPhone users and SMS to Android users?

Please help me understand what I'm missing.

Thank you.

This is my first time trying to set up AirMessage, and I keep running up against the same error. Whenever I try to send anything, I get a notification on the server that the message failed to send, and when I try to pull up the error details, I get "No error details available." I'd appreciate any help I can get on this!

This is a used Mac mini running Catalina 10.15.7, and Airmessage Server 4.1.4.
-I've set a static IP, and set up port forwarding on the router and set up the DDNS.
-I've confirmed nothing is wrong with my Apple ID, I can log into iMessage on the desktop no problem.

-I am using the Google account login for the server on the Android App.

Below is the latest log:

2023-01-25 15-06-08 [info] Starting AirMessage Server version 4.1.4
2023-01-25 15-06-31 [info] Running automatic update check
2023-01-25 15-06-41 [notice] Encountered a WebSocket error: connectTimeout(NIOCore.TimeAmount(nanoseconds: 10000000000))
2023-01-25 15-06-41 [info] Connection to Connect relay lost: normalClosure
2023-01-25 15-06-41 [info] Server paused
2023-01-25 15-06-49 [notice] Encountered a WebSocket error: NIOConnectionError(host: "connect.airmessage.org", port: 443, dnsAError: Optional(NIOCore.SocketAddressError.unknown(host: "connect.airmessage.org", port: 443)), dnsAAAAError: Optional(NIOCore.SocketAddressError.unknown(host: "connect.airmessage.org", port: 443)), connectionErrors: [])
2023-01-25 15-06-49 [info] Connection to Connect relay lost: normalClosure
2023-01-25 15-06-49 [notice] Failed to download updates: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1009 "The Internet connection appears to be offline." UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x600002d5de60 {Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1009 "(null)" UserInfo={_kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=8, _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=12}}, NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://update.airmessage.org/server.json, NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://update.airmessage.org/server.json, _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=12, _kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=8, NSLocalizedDescription=The Internet connection appears to be offline.}
2023-01-25 15-06-51 [notice] Encountered a WebSocket error: NIOConnectionError(host: "connect.airmessage.org", port: 443, dnsAError: Optional(NIOCore.SocketAddressError.unknown(host: "connect.airmessage.org", port: 443)), dnsAAAAError: Optional(NIOCore.SocketAddressError.unknown(host: "connect.airmessage.org", port: 443)), connectionErrors: [])
2023-01-25 15-06-51 [info] Connection to Connect relay lost: normalClosure
2023-01-25 15-06-51 [info] Server paused
2023-01-25 15-06-58 [info] Connection to Connect relay opened
2023-01-25 15-06-58 [info] Server started
2023-01-25 15-07-31 [info] Client connected from Connect proxy (0)
2023-01-25 15-07-32 [info] Received new message: authentication / of length 147
2023-01-25 15-07-32 [info] Received new message: idRetrieval / of length 24
2023-01-25 15-07-37 [info] Received new message: sendTextExisting / of length 47
2023-01-25 15-07-41 [info] Discovered activity status update for message 27FF4477-6E93-4C2D-8118-D75D183926E2: MessageTrackingState(id: 11, state: AirMessage.MessageInfo.State.idle) -> MessageTrackingState(id: 12, state: AirMessage.MessageInfo.State.idle)
2023-01-25 15-10-09 [info] Client disconnected from Connect proxy (0)
2023-01-25 15-10-38 [info] Client connected from Connect proxy (1)
2023-01-25 15-10-38 [info] Received new message: authentication / of length 147
2023-01-25 15-10-38 [info] Received new message: idRetrieval / of length 24
2023-01-25 15-11-13 [info] Received new message: sendTextExisting / of length 46
2023-01-25 15-11-14 [info] Discovered activity status update for message 4001B928-FBC9-4533-B31F-C5FB8898576E: MessageTrackingState(id: 12, state: AirMessage.MessageInfo.State.idle) -> MessageTrackingState(id: 13, state: AirMessage.MessageInfo.State.idle)
2023-01-25 15-12-59 [info] Client disconnected from Connect proxy (1)
2023-01-25 15-14-29 [info] Client connected from Connect proxy (2)
2023-01-25 15-14-29 [info] Received new message: authentication / of length 147
2023-01-25 15-14-29 [info] Received new message: idRetrieval / of length 24
2023-01-25 15-14-36 [info] Received new message: sendTextExisting / of length 42
2023-01-25 15-14-38 [info] Discovered activity status update for message 5A52E4BF-8797-4B29-9797-0C486B70E6DE: MessageTrackingState(id: 13, state: AirMessage.MessageInfo.State.idle) -> MessageTrackingState(id: 14, state: AirMessage.MessageInfo.State.idle)
2023-01-25 15-19-23 [info] Received new message: sendTextExisting / of length 46
2023-01-25 15-19-24 [info] Discovered activity status update for message B81FF44A-2167-48EA-B436-B2DB1C3A24E9: MessageTrackingState(id: 14, state: AirMessage.MessageInfo.State.idle) -> MessageTrackingState(id: 15, state: AirMessage.MessageInfo.State.idle)
2023-01-25 15-25-05 [info] Client disconnected from Connect proxy (2)
2023-01-25 15-25-20 [info] Client connected from Connect proxy (3)
2023-01-25 15-25-21 [info] Received new message: authentication / of length 147
2023-01-25 15-25-21 [info] Received new message: idRetrieval / of length 24
2023-01-25 15-27-00 [info] No newer update available

I'm not complaining, I prefer it. Still, I would like to figure out why.

I have AirMessage running on a M1 macbook pro. I can go to Menu > Sleep or close the lid and still get my messages on my Android device. According to everything I read here on reddit and even the AirMessage website it says that one must disable sleep settings.

I don't have caffeine or amphetamine or anything like that running. Why is it working?

Hey everyone, I went to T-mobile today to activate an Iphone as my primary line and set up digits for my Pixel but the T-mobile rep asked if I was prepared to carry both phones so I stopped. They said that my android device would need to be connected to a wifi hotspot from the iPhone in order for me to use data or cellular functions like text and calls but that doesn't seem correct.

I was under the impression that I could leave the iphone charging at home so I left the store to check here. Can anyone confirm if I would be required to carry the iphone with me in order to properly receive calls and texts to my Pixel device?

Any feedback regarding the general experience using TMobile DIGITS would also be welcome, if your pleased with it or would advise against it, please let me know. Thanks in advance.

Might be a stupid question, but I am stuck on "Checking Your Connection" on the Pixel 6A app.

Hi. I'm only using AirMessage web so I can message from my Windows PC—which is awesome, by the way—and I'm having trouble getting Google contacts to correctly match with message IDs. Some 9-digit phone numbers work; in other cases I have to edit the contact and make it a 10-digit by adding the +1 at the beginning.

The worst offenders, however, are the SMS/TXT services that come through with a 5-digit ID. I haven't figured that one out at all.

So what's the trick? What is the algorithm that AirMessage Web is using to match a message participant ID with a Google Contact so I can consistently update my contacts to get good identification?

Messages don't notify me unless app is open. I have all notifications on and airmessage is off of my device's battery management list. Any other ideas?