Chat with us on Matrix

group, chat · 25 Jul 2024

In addition to Discord and sshchat, we have bridged a Matrix room for our group to chat in:

https://matrix.to/#/#central-utah-lug:matrix.org

Discord, sshchat and Matrix are all bridged to the same #general channel in our Discord instance. We are using [Matterbridge] to facilitate the bridging of the separate services.

Matterbridge config

For anyone curious, at the time of writing this is how Matterbridge is configured to bridge these separate services (with sensitive values scrubbed):

[sshchat.culug]
Server="<snip>:22"
Nick="matterbridge"
RemoteNickFormat="[{PROTOCOL}] <{NICK}> "

[discord.culug]
Token="<snip>"
Server="<snip>"
AutoWebhooks=true
RemoteNickFormat="[{PROTOCOL}] <{NICK}> "
PreserveThreading=true

[matrix.matrix-org]
Server="https://matrix.org"
Login="<snip>"
Password="<snip>"
RemoteNickFormat="[{PROTOCOL}] <{NICK}> "
NoHomeServerSuffix=false

[[gateway]]
name="ssh-chat-discord-matrix-gateway"
enable=true

  [[gateway.inout]]
  account="discord.culug"
  channel="general"

  [[gateway.inout]]
  account="sshchat.culug"
  channel="sshchat"

  [[gateway.inout]]
  account="matrix.matrix-org"
  channel="#central-utah-lug:matrix.org"

Bonus: SSHchat

This is the snippet with how we’re running sshchat:

docker run -v ./motd.txt:/opt/motd.txt -v ./ssh:/root/.ssh -p 22:2022 -d --name=sshchat --restart=unless-stopped docker.io/heywoodlh/ssh-chat:daf4677 /usr/local/bin/ssh-chat --identity=/root/.ssh/id_rsa --admin=/root/.ssh/admin_authorized_keys --motd=/opt/motd.txt