Create new special-purpose signal account for bot

[patcon]

Currently, I have the server and my workstation linked to my personal signal account, so it looks like I'm doing all of this. This works fine, but some other possibilities open up when the bot has it's own account.

For example:

• bot can be invited to multiple groups (though maybe not desired right now)
• bot can be messaged directly to "private commands" (for e.g., so that a request for nearest station to lock up a bike doesn't make extra noise in group chat)

We could get a new voip phone number for CAD$0.85/month: https://voip.ms/en/phone-numbers/canada

[patcon]

voip.ms has canadian numbers, generally priced like:

$0.85 per month $0.009 per minute $0.40 Setup Fee

Using phonespell and voip.ms search, some options:

• 587.792.2453: 58-spy-a-bike
• 226.210.7746: can-210-spin
• 778.608.4225: spun-08-hack
• 506.700.2227: 506-700-2b2s
• ✅ 778.766.2227: spur-on-2b2s, 7-sup-on-2b2s, 77-upon-2b2s (BOUGHT)

[patcon]

Got this working, here's are some tricks:

• decided to do main signal-cli registration on my local workstation, then pair the server as a child device (so i don't need to go through hassle if i reprovision the digitalocean server)
• needed to use voice registration for voip.ms, as sms weren't coming through for some reason (though worked fine for my sending tests SMS to the number 🤷 )
  • enabled voicemail in voip.ms, and editted so remove instructions so went as quickly as possible to recordings
  • signal-cli -u +17787662227 register --voice
  • quickly listened to new recording
  • signal-cli -u +17787662227 verify 000-000
• on the digitalocean server, did: signal-cli --config signal-cli link -n "digitalocean"
  • back on workstation: signal-cli -u +17787662227 addDevice --uri "tsdevice://...
  • digitalocean server now paired as device
• has some issue inviting bikebikeshareshare bot to a v2 signal group (prob because it can't accept the invite correctly)
  • instead turned on link invites in group, and used signal-cli to join via joinGroup --uri command (as per https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/issues/480#issuecomment-770216644)
• make start-daemon PHONE=+17787662227 to run daemon for new number
• testing in groups now seems to work fine. needed small update, since we're now using Messages instead of SyncMessages and the function call differs slightly

[patcon]

Done! Needed to restart digitalocean in order to restar dbus and get it all working well (i think using kill to stop it was not good for doing it properly, and something was still running)