Signal Messenger on HASS.IO

hannes23 · February 9, 2020, 7:30pm

Hi there,

I was google´ing for many hours now, but did not find a way to use/install the Signal Messenger on my Raspberry Pi / Hass.IO (Home Assistant 0.104.3).

I read about docker and stuff, but there is no docker-compose on Hass.IO.
Also I did not find a Plugin for HACS or something similar.

How do I install singal-cli and use it?

Hopefully no dump question, but I can not find an answer.

Thank you!

hannes23 · February 18, 2020, 7:01am

Has no one ever tried to use Signal on HASS.IO? I think this is a must have feature and I can not get it to work on HASS.IO.
Any ideas?

hannes23 · June 8, 2020, 9:41am

I finaly found this addon:

github.com

bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api/blob/f2818b32b683cbf8a819d11395410bacea8eca00/doc/HOMEASSISTANT.md

# README

This document describes how to use the Signal Messenger REST API together with Home Assistant. 

prerequisites:
* docker + docker-compose

-or-
* ability to install Home Assistant add-ons

* a phone number to send signal notifications

## Set up the docker container

* Create a `docker-compose.yml` file with the following contents: 

```
version: "3"
services:
  signal-cli-rest-api:

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Seems to work by now

alexbelgium · January 30, 2021, 6:47am

Hi, I’ve configured this addon but have a delay of perhaps 30 seconds between command and message received on my phone. Do you have a similar experience?

Also, I’ve found a second plugin for signal here : https://github.com/agileek/hassio-addons but have not tried it yet. I’m not sure about the difference but both seem to interact with the notify/intent platforms.