[solved] Send Whatsapp messages with pimatic

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Hi,

i’m try to send whatsapp messages with pimatic. The shell command is: Python yowsup-cli -c config.example -s 49123612312 “Das ist ein Test!”. But if i put this in a rule it has to look like this:
if $whatsapp_text gets updated, then execute “Python yowsup-cli -c config.example -s 49123612312 “$whatsapp_text””. Pimatic doesn’t work with this because of the “” for the text.
Do you hav any idea how i can get this working?

Regards, Frank

@daice I can’t test it, but I think it should work with:

if $whatsapp_text gets updated, then execute "Python yowsup-cli -c config.example -s 49123612312 \"$whatsapp_text\""

You have to escape the " with \

Try:

Python yowsup-cli -c config.example -s 49123612312 \"Das ist ein Test!\"

Thanks, i will try it when i’m at home.

for me it worked with:

execute "yowsup-cli demos -c ../path/to/yowsup.config -s 49123456789 \"whatsapp_text\" > /dev/null 2>&1 "

this would be cool for threema too.

https://gateway.threema.ch/de/developer/api

@n3ro you have to pay for each message in threema

Somebody posted this for telegram (is free)
Edit http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/800/notifications-through-the-telegram-bot

@techbarney oh yes… sorry^^

I also use telegram: It is safe, it is light, it is open source, it works natively on many platforms compared to whatsapp which is everything but safe, shares your information with “everyone” (slightly exaggerated) using a tool (yowsup-cli, but there are others as well) which is actually reversed engineered. Something whatsapp doesn’t like at all and could stop working any time.
Telegram sends me notifications about multiple things from pimatic.

offtopic:
@Harry-van-der-Wolf
Sorry to say but telegram is not really secure. (But for pimatic messages this shouldnt really matter)
See post from stackoverflow for more info.

Stil i am prefering telegram over whatsapp, too and think its a way better app with better desktopclients and better over all experience.

@thymian said:

Sorry to say but telegram is not really secure.

Fully agree eventhough @Harry-van-der-Wolf wrote “safe” instead of “secure” - may be he had something different in mind.

Generally, if you use notification & messaging services on the interernet you always opt into some kind of big brother is watching you programme - with some rare exceptions. As far as the statement “Telegram is Secure” is concerned I think this was more of marketing gag at the time when Zuckerberg bought WhatsApp to pull users. As @thymian said it may be good enough for pimatic use cases though. On the positive side of things it is nice that Telegram provides a “Bot API”. So, it would fairly simple to integrate with Pimatic.

I did mean secure indeed and it seems I’m wrong. I did not read those blogs revealing the weaknesses of their encryption protocol. I read other blogs that mention its security: obviously I did not search well enough.

It’s not true though that whatsapp messages are only from phone to phone. They pass the whatsapp servers (and stay their temporarily if the “receiver” is not online) and when you accept their user terms, which have indeed been changed after Facebook took over whatsapp, you will notice that they are allowed to use quite some info where as the telegram people state they will not.

I don’t want to start a flame about the security or not. It seems that telegram is not so secure as I thought it was, but the fact that it is so cross-platform and that they don’t use any of your personal data makes it for me the preferred one.

I like the idea of sending a WhatsApp message from Pimatic This way I could get rid of Pushover since I allready use whatsapp for everything else.
Is it just installing some python shizzle and start sending, or do I need someting else?
I read the follwoing : “Get an extra sim card that you are not using since Whatsapp does not allow you to sign in on multiple accounts simultaneously” about yowsup. So I would need a (from WhatsApp point of view) unused number ?

Could you share your setup/config for sending whatsapp?

@koffienl Yes, you need a unused number to activate Whatsapp.
Here you see how to get your registration code for whatsapp: https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup/wiki/yowsup-cli-2.0 and put it in your yowsup-configuration.
(Here the complete installation also in german: http://wlanthermo.com/index.php/9-bauanleitung).
If guess if you use --requestcode voice you can also use your normal phone.

With
execute "yowsup-cli demos -c ../path/to/yowsup.config -s 49123456789 \"$whatsapp_text\" > /dev/null 2>&1 "
you send the variable $whatsapp_text.

@Harry-van-der-Wolf A bit off-topic, but is it possible for you to write a little tutorial on this? I would love to receive pimatic notifications on telegram.

@lxz It’s really basic stuff, easy to do (did it myself after reading this topic)

more info i found very usefull Here