matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/docs/configuring-playbook-bridge-mautrix-signal.md

Setting up Mautrix Signal bridging (optional)

^{Refer the common guide for configuring mautrix bridges: Setting up a Generic Mautrix Bridge}

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

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

Prerequisites (optional)

Prepare Postgres database on external Postgres server

If you're running with the Postgres database server integrated by the playbook (which is the default), you don't need to do anything special and can easily proceed with installing.

However, if you're using an external Postgres server, you'd need to manually prepare a Postgres database for this bridge and adjust the variables related to that (matrix_mautrix_signal_database_*).

Enable Appservice Double Puppet

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 service for this playbook.

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

Adjusting the playbook configuration

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

matrix_mautrix_signal_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.

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 @signalbot:example.com (where example.com is your base domain, not the matrix. domain).

You can then follow instructions on the bridge's official documentation on Authentication.

After logging in, the bridge will bridge chats as you receive messages.

Note: Signal does not support any kind of message history (even on official apps), so the bridge won't backfill any messages.