Contacts' names

[mark2185]

How can I show the contact's names from my original device (from the contact list/phonebook) instead of the nicknames/usernames they write for themselves?

I swear the names changed after my last restart of scli...

[maximbaz]

You are not imagining it, I also noticed that names keep changing, sometimes I see users' self-chosen alias like johny, other times it changes to name as in official signal apps (guess from my phonebook?) like John Smith, and other times it even changes to format +123456789 ~johny. I just never got around to ask/report about it, and I have a suspicion the issue is actually inside signal-cli 🙂

[exquo]

I have seen this too. Don't know what exactly causes it, but it seems to be related to when the main device is offline (while signal-cli is probably requesting contacts info from the servers).

I have a suspicion the issue is actually inside signal-cli

Yes, scli gets the contacts data from signal-cli's recepients-store in ~/.local/share/signal-cli/data/+YOUR_PHONE_NUM.d/recipients-store. The contacts' names there is what scli uses.

How can I show the contact's names from my original device

Try syncing your contacts with the main device. On signal-android: tap the "new message" (pencil icon in lower right) -> three dots in top right -> Refresh. (Or pull the contacts list down to refresh). You can also request contacts sync using signal-cli's sendSyncRequest command (see the man page for details). The master device needs to be online for this to work.

[mark2185]

On signal-android: tap the "new message" (pencil icon in lower right) -> three dots in top right -> Refresh. (Or pull the contacts list down to refresh).

That did it! Thanks!

I guess this can be closed since it's not scli's fault.