Relay mode
All megabridges support relay mode with the same mechanism: a specific login can be designated as a relay, which will be used for bridging messages from users who haven't logged into the bridge.
- Enable relay mode by setting
bridge
→relay
→enabled
totrue
in the bridge config. Also make sure that the users you want to invite have at least therelay
level in thepermissions
section.- By default,
admin_only
is true, which means only bridge admins (as defined by thepermissions
section) can set a relay. If you want room admins to also be able to set themselves as a relay, setadmin_only
tofalse
.
- By default,
- Log into the bridge normally using the relaybot account.
- If you want a separate remote account for the relaybot while using your own account for your own Matrix user, you should make a dedicated Matrix account for the relaybot. If you do this, make sure to run the next command using the new Matrix account too.
- Using the same dedicated account for multiple bridges is fine, so you can have a server-wide "relay" account that acts as the relay for all the bridges.
- By default, admins can set any login as a relay, while non-admins can only
set themselves as a relay. If you want to set up a shared relay account
that anyone can enable, add the login ID (from
list-logins
) to thedefault_relays
list in the config after logging in.
- Run
!prefix set-relay
in the chats where you want to use the relaybot, replacing!prefix
with the appropriate command prefix for the bridge, like!signal
or!wa
. You can also useset-relay <login ID>
to choose a specific login to be the relay (uselist-logins
to find login IDs). - Use
!prefix set-pl 100
to be able to modify room settings and invite others.
If you want to bridge existing rooms, you'll have to manually update the mxid
column in the portal
table to point to the room you want bridged.
Note that reactions from relayed users will not be bridged at all, because the bot wouldn't be able to bridge sender info nor multiple reactions of the same emoji.
Legacy bridges
Some of the legacy bridges that haven't been rewritten as Megabridges yet have slightly different system. In particular
- Telegram has relay bots
- Discord has relay webhooks
- iMessage doesn't require using
set-relay
, enabling it in the config will enable relay in all chats. - Google Chat doesn't support relay mode at all