matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/docs/configuring-playbook-bridge-mautrix-googlechat.md
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Update documentation of setting up double puppeting with bridges (#3837)
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* Move sections "Set up Double Puppeting" under "Usage" as subsections for mautrix bridges and appservice kakaotalk

The changes in this commit reflect double puppeting configuration flow. Since the docs claim that double puppeting can be set up after enabling bridges by chatting with the bridge's bot, the explanation about double puppeting may well be placed under "Usage" as subsection.

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Enabling Appservice Double Puppet is contrasted with "Enabling double puppeting by enabling the Shared Secret Auth service", therefore it can be just called as "this" if Shared Secret Auth service is not mentioned below.

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Setting up Mautrix Google Chat bridging (optional)

The playbook can install and configure mautrix-googlechat for you.

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

Prerequisite (optional)

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

For details about configuring Double Puppeting for this bridge, see the section below: Set up Double Puppeting

Adjusting the playbook configuration

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

matrix_mautrix_googlechat_enabled: true

Installing

After configuring the playbook, run the installation command: just install-all or just setup-all

Usage

Once the bot is enabled you need to start a chat with googlechat bridge bot with handle @googlechatbot:example.com (where example.com is your base domain, not the matrix. domain).

Send login to the bridge bot to receive a link to the portal from which you can enable the bridging. Open the link sent by the bot and follow the instructions.

Automatic login may not work. If it does not, reload the page and select the "Manual login" checkbox before starting. Manual login involves logging into your Google account normally and then manually getting the OAuth token from browser cookies with developer tools.

Once logged in, recent chats should show up as new conversations automatically. Other chats will get portals as you receive messages.

You can learn more about authentication from the bridge's official documentation on Authentication.

💡 Set up Double Puppeting

After successfully enabling bridging, you may wish to set up Double Puppeting (hint: you most likely do).

To set it up, you have 2 ways of going about it.

Method 1: automatically, by enabling Appservice Double Puppet or Shared Secret Auth

The bridge automatically performs Double Puppeting if Appservice Double Puppet or Shared Secret Auth service is configured and enabled on the server for this playbook.

Enabling Appservice Double Puppet is the recommended way of setting up Double Puppeting, as it's easier to accomplish, works for all your users automatically, and has less of a chance of breaking in the future.

Enabling double puppeting by enabling the Shared Secret Auth service works at the time of writing, but is deprecated and will stop working in the future.

Method 2: manually, by asking each user to provide a working access token

When using this method, each user that wishes to enable Double Puppeting needs to follow the following steps:

  • retrieve a Matrix access token for yourself. Refer to the documentation on how to do that.

  • send the access token to the bot. Example: login-matrix MATRIX_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE

  • make sure you don't log out the Mautrix-googlechat device some time in the future, as that would break the Double Puppeting feature