PRE-INSTALLATION

Before you install jami-commander with pip install jami-commander you must have followed these prerequisites steps!

• You must have Python 3.12+ installed. 3.11 might work.
• Run python -V to get your Python version number.
• Read the README.md file to see how to install and run Jami daemon jamid.

jami-commander

Jami (https://jami.net) is a privacy-preserving peer-to-peer communication application available on many platforms. Jami is in concept similar to Keet (https://keet.io), both are peer-to-peer and use servers as little as possible. As a chat app it is similar to Matrix (https://http://matrix.org) as both can be self-hosted.

jami-commander (jc for short) is a simple but convenient CLI-based Jami client app for setting up accounts and swarms as well as sending.

jami-commander helps to set up a Jami account, configure the account and send messages and files to Jami peers. It provides the minimal set of commands to use Jami from the CLI.

The objective of jami-commander is to:

• be able to use Jami from the terminal, the CLI, via SSH, and on head-less servers without monitor.
• to use minimal resources. No Jami front-end (GUI) needs to be installed.
• to be able to perform minimal operations to run a bot, e.g. to publish daily weather information
• be simple. It is written in Python.

Functionality is minimal. You are invited to help to improve jami-commander. Pull requests are welcome.

Installation and Prerequisites

• jami-commander is only a client. It requires the Jami jamid daemon to run to performs the work.
• first install Jami daemon jamid as follows:
  • e.g. on Fedora 40 (see https://jami.net/download-jami-linux/ for details)
  • sudo dnf-3 config-manager --add-repo https://dl.jami.net/stable/fedora_40/jami-stable.repo # add the Jami repo
  • sudo dnf install jami-daemon # install only the jamid daemon
  • e.g. on Ubuntu 24.04 (see https://jami.net/download-jami-linux/ for details)

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    <p>curl -s <a href="https://dl.jami.net/public-key.gpg">https://dl.jami.net/public-key.gpg</a> | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/jami-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null
    sudo sh -c "echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/jami-archive-keyring.gpg] <a href="https://dl.jami.net/stable/ubuntu_24.04/">https://dl.jami.net/stable/ubuntu_24.04/</a> jami main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jami.list"
    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install jami-daemon # install only the jamid daemon```</p>
    <ul>
    <li>This installs around 204MB on Ubuntu</li>
    <li>second install dependencies
    <ul>
    <li>e.g. Ubuntu 24.04</li>
    <li><code>sudo apt install libdbus-1-dev libglib2.0-dev libcairo2-dev libgirepository1.0-dev</code></li>
    </ul>
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    <li>third install <code>jami-commander</code>
    <ul>
    <li><code>pip install jami-commander</code></li>
    <li>see also <a href="https://pypi.org/pypi/jami-commander">https://pypi.org/pypi/jami-commander</a></li>
    </ul>
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    <li>run the <code>jamid</code> daemon:
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    <li>e.g. on Fedora 40, similar on Ubuntu 24.04, etc.</li>
    <li><code>/usr/libexec/jamid -p & # start the jamid daemon</code></li>
    </ul>
    </li>
    <li>now you can start and run the <code>jami-commander</code>
    <ul>
    <li>try <code>jami-commander -h</code> first to see what is available</li>
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    <h1 id="user-content-features">Features<a href="#user-content-features" aria-label="Link to heading 'Features'" data-heading-content="Features" class="anchor"></a></h1>
    <pre><code>jami-commander supports these arguments:
    
    --usage
      Print usage.
    -h, --help
      Print help.
    --manual
      Print manual.
    --readme
      Print README.md file.
    -d, --debug
      Print debug information.
    --log-level DEBUG|INFO|WARNING|ERROR|CRITICAL [DEBUG|INFO|WARNING|ERROR|CRITICAL ...]
      Set the log level(s).
    --verbose
      Set the verbosity level.
    --get-enabled-accounts
      List all enabled accounts by ids.
    --add-account ALIAS HOSTNAME USERNAME PASSWORD
      Add a new Jami account.
    --remove-account ACCOUNTID [ACCOUNTID ...]
      Remove a Jami account.
    --get-conversations
      List all swarm conversations by ids.
    --add-conversation
      Add a conversation to an account.
    --remove-conversation
      Remove one or multiple conversations from an account.
    --get-conversation-members
      List all members of one or multiple swarm conversations by ids.
    --add-conversation-member USERID [USERID ...]
      Add member(s) to one or multiple swarm conversations.
    --remove-conversation-member USERID [USERID ...]
      Remove member(s) from one or multiple swarm conversations.
    -a ACCOUNTID, --account ACCOUNTID
      Connect to and use the specified account.
    -c CONVERSATIONID [CONVERSATIONID ...], --conversations CONVERSATIONID [CONVERSATIONID ...]
      Specify one or multiple swarm conversations.
    -m TEXT [TEXT ...], --message TEXT [TEXT ...]
      Send one or multiple text messages.
    -f FILE [FILE ...], --file FILE [FILE ...]
      Send one or multiple files (e.g. PDF, DOC, MP4).
    -w, --html
      Send message as format "HTML".
    -z, --markdown
      Send message as format "MARKDOWN".
    -k, --code
      Send message as format "CODE".
    -j, --emojize
      Send message after emojizing.
    --split SEPARATOR
      Split message text into multiple Jami messages.
    --separator SEPARATOR
      Set a custom separator used for certain print outs.
    -o TEXT|JSON, --output TEXT|JSON
      Select an output format.
    -v [PRINT|CHECK], -V [PRINT|CHECK], --version [PRINT|CHECK]
      Print version information or check for updates.