(yes, I saw the smiley) I really didn’t see any reason to–the Ansible deployment is thoroughly documented on its own GitHub page, and with a few tweaks (noted up-topic) it’s worked well for me on a free Oracle Cloud instance. Adding Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp, and other features was plug-and-play. But docs on getting the iMessage bridge working (and working in such a way as to not mess with the Ansible installation) were very sparse and fragmentary, so I figured that was worth writing up.
But I will say that the script I linked to (to install macOS under Proxmox) works surprisingly well. It’s slow, though–it took hours to complete the installation. But even so, it worked perfectly to install macOS Monterey in a VM on my Proxmox cluster, complete with a unique serial number that allowed me to log in to iCloud/iMessage (which was the whole point of the exercise).
With the help of @mrmarkuz I managed to install WA bridge on my matrix-synapse instance using the docker route (portainer)
I am confronted with 1 (minor) issue:
when adding an avatar for my account on matrix-synapse server using element client application, WhatsApp users don’t see that avatar.
Is there a setting to propagate such info from matrix to WA ecosystem? Or do I have to edit this on the WA client that is connected to the WA bridge?
I’d rather have the option to set avatar and status in Element…
So, a bit of an update… I had some trouble with my macOS VM, and updates to the bridge now require macOS Ventura anyway, so I started over. The scripted installation of macOS that I’d previously used didn’t seem to work properly with Ventura, so I installed it manually instead. It’s otherwise continuing to work well. I’ve made a few updates to the wiki entry, and moved it to a wiki.js installation:
I’m expecting to make a few other updates there, but this is repeatable for me.