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CLIChatty

A curses-based terminal interface to the chatty messaging app's database. Messages are sent using mmcli, and MMS messages are sent through the mmsd-tng daemon over D-Bus. It is designed to be used via SSH, this way you can message from your computer.

SSH into your phone, then run clic or clichatty to start the program. For help with keybindings, press H. For help with flags, run clic -h.


MMS

Multimedia messages (pictures, files, group chats) require mmsd-tng to be running on the phone (Chatty launches it automatically), and gdbus (part of glib2-utils) on PATH.

  • In the compose window, <c-x> attaches a file and the message is sent as an MMS. Group threads and messages sent with -s/--subject are also sent as MMS.
  • From the command line: cli -a 'alias' -m 'text' -f /path/to/image.jpg -f /path/to/file.txt

Sent and received MMS are recorded and their attachments cached by the Chatty app itself: mmsd-tng's MessageAdded signal tells Chatty about every MMS (it saves payloads under $XDG_DATA_HOME/chatty/mms/<tag>/ and writes the messages/mm_messages/files rows). Clichatty just triggers the send via mmsd-tng and displays what Chatty stored, so nothing is recorded twice.


Installing

The recommended installation method is with uv:

uv tool install clichatty

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