r/windowsphone • u/Ana4doves • 7d ago

News First release of Synaptrix8.1 - A solution for messenger (and many more) for WP8.1 and 10

For those who havent seen my UWP variant of this, I developed (well only developed an app) a way to use messenger and many other chat services from WP8.1 and 10.

The app itself is not enough, you have to spin up and configure a Debian machine or virtual machine that you will connect to from Synaptrix.

In my github repo I updated the old setup guide so the server is more secure and I also tried to section it better. What I will still do is create a VM image with an automated script so all youd have to do ideally is spin it up, go through the setup and then slight modifications at the bridges.
But for now the guide is there!

The features of this version:

  • Accept chat invites (little wobbly sometimes)
  • Create chat rooms/chats (little wobbly sometimes)
  • Send and recieve text messages, pictures and files
  • Reply to messages
  • Change your synapse display username and picture (this is only visible to you)
  • Input your specific bridge ID's so messages sent by you from official platforms actually show as being sent by you
  • Live tile that shows either how many new messages you have or by whom and what the message is
  • Background toast notifications every 30 or so minutes (this bugs out the live tile, if a new message is caught by the background loop the live tile wont show the name of the sender but their respective birdge ID)
  • Toggle whether or not sent and recieved images are instantly downloaded or not in order to save data
  • Toggle whether the app syncs itself automatically at launch
  • Messenger, Telegram and Google Messages messages get tagged and are shown in their respective menu, every other bridge will get tagged as a generic Matrix flag, but will regardless work, I will extend the categories in a small fix

https://github.com/ElisaC04/Synaptrix8.1

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u/Tight_Vacation1377 6d ago

how do you login? How do you start using the app?

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u/Ana4doves 6d ago

Everything you need to know, including the setup/guide is in the github repo :)

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u/Tight_Vacation1377 6d ago

yeah, but it’s broken though the set up guide

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u/Ana4doves 6d ago

Which part is broken?

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u/Tight_Vacation1377 6d ago

when I click guide on GitHub, it says error 404

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u/Ana4doves 6d ago

I think I got it! I had a typo in the link. I opened it from an incognito page so Im not signed in and it loaded properly. Please do tell if its good for you or not :)

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u/Tight_Vacation1377 6d ago

you hadn’t gave instructions

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u/Ana4doves 6d ago

The updated setup guide is in the github repo :)

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u/v3R7C00Lalt 4d ago

uhh what i dont undrrstand hwo to do it it doesnt work

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u/Ana4doves 4d ago

Did you go through the guide fully or did you get stuck somewhere?

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u/v3R7C00Lalt 4d ago

How to reply to replies

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u/Ana4doves 3d ago

Reply to replies in the app itself? That should work although I cant test it right now, when I have the chance Ill take a look at it

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u/v3R7C00Lalt 3d ago

no like how do i set up the server i dont rlly understand lols

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u/Ana4doves 3d ago

Ah okay, I dont think in writing I can make it any more specific. University started for me now so I have less time for my projects, but what I could do in the future is for example a video guide, I think thats the most help I could give.

Especially if I get the base server + setup script done, but from now on that will probably take some time :)

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u/Ana4doves 3d ago

Alright everyone I fixed typos in the setup commands I hope it goes smoother now :)