"Finish linking on your other device"

[Hellmo-Luciferrari]

The problem

When trying to link via QR code from Signal on my mobile device, the QR Code is accepted; however when it is scanned I get a message telling me to "Finish linking on your other device"

Signal on Android version: 7.11.3

6c86af7a75c5 is the version for Signal-cli-rest-api

Are you using the latest released version?

• [X] Yes

Have you read the troubleshooting page?

• [X] Yes

What type of installation are you running?

signal-cli-rest-api Docker Container

In which mode are you using the docker container?

Native Mode

What's the architecture of your host system?

arm64

Additional information

Running via Docker Compose on a Pi 4 8gb

[bohart]

Got the same issue. Once QR code is scanned, the mobile app shows "Finish linking on your other device".

Additional details:

• an account details has been appeared at ./signal-cli-config/data/accounts.json
• but API request to /v1/accounts return nothing;
• API request to /v2/send return an error "User %mynumber% is not registered.";

[bobsiboo]

Got the same issue, When scanning the qr code a second time i just get a message Network error. I noticed there is an issue from last week with the same error. Maybe related?

[bbernhard]

unfortunately this is an upstream issue: https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/issues/1556

[ender-the-xenocide]

do you have any info as to why previous versions don't work then? I tried with 0.82 which uses signal-cli v 0.13.2 with the same issue. Where there backwards-incompatible changes on Signal's backend?

[xalik111]

have the same issue with latest version. any suggestions how can i fix it?

[k-bx]

As mentioned in https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/issues/1556 , this is fixed in latest master. In my case, I'm using signal-cli-rest-api and signal-cli-native without docker, so fixing is simple, just put the linked binary in your /usr/bin/signal-cli-native

[xalik111]

any chance if i use docker?

[Unpublished]

Upstream released the fix with v0.13.5

[bbernhard]

Please give this version a try: bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api:0.164-dev

[ender-the-xenocide]

I confirm linking now works. thanks for the quick fix!

[ValentinFreelancer]

thank you sir

[HeyVern]

@bbernhard much appreciated! Looking forward to next release. Quick question for group. Do you think it would have been possible to use docker to remap the path in the container to an external folder and place the updated v013.5 binary there? I was considering trying this when I saw that a fix is incoming.

[ender-the-xenocide]

I imagine so - the last 2 commits are for taking the newer upstream lib, so in this particular case it might've worked. https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api/commit/30615592b32bddec506868929aa21f45b9eafdda https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api/commit/bb246cf3f7e786822a910194ba6f62cc2015e78c

[HeyVern]

Any ideas when we are going to se an updated release that includes this fix?

[ahatius]

Using the latest version (0.86, released yesterday) I was able to link my device again.

[pavacs]

A question for those who managed to connect their device. What needs to be done in hassio addons after the message Finish linking on your other device ?