Reticulum WebChat

A simple web based LXMF client for Reticulum.

Features

• Supports sending to and receiving messages from Sideband and Nomadnet.
• Supports receiving images sent from Sideband.
• Supports receiving file attachments sent from Sideband.

How does it work?

• A python script (web.py) runs a Reticulum instance and a WebSocket server.
• The web page sends and receives lxmf packets encoded in json via the WebSocket.
• Web Browser -> WebSocket -> Python Reticulum -> (configured interfaces) -> (destination)

How to use it?

You will need to clone the repo, and run web.py.

git clone https://github.com/liamcottle/reticulum-webchat
cd reticulum-webchat
pip install -r requirements.txt
python web.py

NOTE: You should now be able to access the web interface at http://localhost:8000

TODO

• don't start Reticulum before cli args have been parsed
• allow passing in a custom Reticulum config file via cli args
• conversations/contacts list ui with unread indicators
• create/import/export identities in the web ui
• ui to configure custom name to send in announcement app data
• ui to view announcements, with names from app data
• support saving conversation history across page reloads
• send images from web ui
• send file attachments from web ui
• support for multiple (but separated) identities via the same websocket server
  • possibly allow multiple identities to simultaneously send/receive in multiple browser tabs?