jami-commander 0.3.0

A simple command-line Jami (jami.net) client

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 run it e.g. on a headless Raspberry Pi
• 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.
• install jami-commander
  • pip jami-commander
  • see also https://pypi.org/pypi/jami-commander
• install Jami daemon jamid as follows:
  • e.g. on Fedora 40, similar on Ubuntu 24.04, etc.
  • 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
• run the jamid daemon:
  • e.g. on Fedora 40, similar on Ubuntu 24.04, etc.
  • /usr/libexec/jamid -p & # start the jamid daemon
• now you can start and run the jami-commander
  • try jami-commander -h first to see what is available