matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/docs/configuring-playbook-bridge-go-skype-bridge.md

Setting up Go Skype Bridge bridging (optional)

The playbook can install and configure go-skype-bridge for you, for bridging to Skype. This bridge was created based on mautrix-whatsapp and can be configured in a similar way to it.

See the project's documentation to learn what it does and why it might be useful to you.

Prerequisite (optional)

Enable Shared Secret Auth

If you want to set up Double Puppeting (hint: you most likely do) for this bridge automatically, you need to have enabled Shared Secret Auth for this playbook.

See this section on the common guide for configuring mautrix bridges for details about setting up Double Puppeting.

Note: double puppeting with the Shared Secret Auth works at the time of writing, but is deprecated and will stop working in the future.

Adjusting the playbook configuration

To enable the bridge, add the following configuration to your inventory/host_vars/matrix.example.com/vars.yml file:

matrix_go_skype_bridge_enabled: true

Extending the configuration

There are some additional things you may wish to configure about the bridge.

See this section on the common guide for configuring mautrix bridges for details about variables that you can customize and the bridge's default configuration, including bridge permissions, encryption support, relay mode, bot's username, etc.

Note: when following the guide to configure the bridge, make sure to replace _mautrix_SERVICENAME_ in the variable names with _go_skype_bridge_.

Installing

After configuring the playbook, run it with playbook tags as below:

ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --tags=setup-all,ensure-matrix-users-created,start

Notes:

• The ensure-matrix-users-created playbook tag makes the playbook automatically create the bot's user account.

• The shortcut commands with the just program are also available: just install-all or just setup-all

  just install-all is useful for maintaining your setup quickly (2x-5x faster than just setup-all) when its components remain unchanged. If you adjust your vars.yml to remove other components, you'd need to run just setup-all, or these components will still remain installed.

Usage

To use the bridge, you need to start a chat with @skypebridgebot:example.com (where example.com is your base domain, not the matrix. domain).

Troubleshooting

As with all other services, you can find the logs in systemd-journald by logging in to the server with SSH and running journalctl -fu matrix-go-skype-bridge.

Increase logging verbosity

The default logging level for this component is warn. If you want to increase the verbosity, add the following configuration to your vars.yml file and re-run the playbook:

# Valid values: fatal, error, warn, info, debug
matrix_go_skype_bridge_log_level: 'info'