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isamert / scli

a simple terminal user interface for signal messenger (using signal-cli)
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signal-cli contacts import does not work properly #118

Closed wherron01 closed 3 years ago

wherron01 commented 3 years ago

All of my contacts are listed as their phone number in groups, "NULL" in notifications, and do not show up in direct messages. adding them all with :addcontact resolves this until i exit and reopen scli, but the issue returns then. It does occasionally show the names from my phone, but this is erratic and seemingly random, and disappears upon opening any chat

exquo commented 3 years ago

Sounds like scli does not see any contacts in the contactStore in signal-cli's data file. Could you please check if there is anything in there? The data file is at 

~/.local/share/signal-cli/data/+YOUR_PHONE_NUM

If there are no entries in the contactStore section, it would mean a problem upstream with signal-cli. The contacts in there should be same as those on your phone (assuming you've given the signal app on the phone the permission to access your contacts).

Likewise, after you do :addContact in scli, that contact should be added to signal-cli's data file. Could you try doing that and observing what happens to the data file, including any changes after scli restart?

exquo commented 3 years ago

One more wrinkle: getting a CONTACTS_SYNC envelope from signal servers replaces any local changes to contacts list with that on the phone (see #119). So while troubleshooting this, avoid using the signal app on the phone at the same time, lest it sends this 'contacts refresh' message. Also, this sounds similar to #84.

exquo commented 3 years ago

This might be an instance of https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/issues/575.

exquo commented 3 years ago

The problem should now be fixed in the upstream (see https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/issues/575#issuecomment-831453275). Feel free to re-open if the issue reappers.