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Something doesn’t work
First, create a basic configuration following https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/wiki/How-to-create-your-config
Also, read the Features page.
FAQ for:
General
Message being skipped
(From https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/discussions/1566)
Matterbridge does not relay messages from the user account that it is logged in as. Make sure it has its own account.
Slack
Messages come from Slack API tester
Did you set RemoteNickFormat?
Try adding RemoteNickFormat="<{NICK}>"
Messages from other bots aren’t getting relayed
If you’re using WebhookURL in your Slack configuration,
this is normal. If you only have Token configuration, this
could be a bug. Please open an issue.
Gitter
Messages deleted on Gitter aren’t deleted on other bridges
Gitter doesn’t send delete events to their API, so we can’t pick
those up.
When you delete a message on another bridge Slack, they will be deleted
on Gitter though. (matterbridge can delete messages on Gitter, but we do
not get an event when a message on Gitter is deleted).
So Slack <=> Gitter bridge, deleting messages when on Gitter
doesn’t get deleted on Slack.
On the same bridge, deleting messages on slack gets also deleted on
Gitter.
Discord
Discord is not getting or receiving messages
Did you specify the correct channel name?
Try using the ID instead of the channel name.
You can find the number in the URL of the channel:
https://discordapp.com/channels/number1/number2
Instead of channel="name", set
channel="ID:number2".
Also, make sure your bot hasn’t been banned from the server for some reason.
Seeing IDs instead of usernames on the other bridges?
If you want roles/groups mentions to be shown with names instead of ID, you’ll need to give your bot the “Manage Roles” permission.
Can I join the bot to a server I don’t own?
You need permissions on the server to be able to join the bot, if you’re allowed to here’s how you do it: Click on the bot here: https://discordapp.com/developers/applications/me
Click the “Generate OAUTH” button, copy the URL and paste it into your address bar, open the page and you’ll see the drop down menu for adding the bot to any server you have permissions on.
Messages not being edited, but a new message with (edit) appears?
Message editing is not supported by discord using webhooks. If you want message editing, disable webhooks and use token only
Error obtaining server members: HTTP 403 Forbidden
Discord changed its API:
See https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/wiki/Discord-bot-setup#privileged-gateway-intents
for a fix
See https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/issues/1263 for
more info
Do I need to allow inbound connections for webhooks to work
No.
Replies show the botname instead of the username/avatar
This is a discord limitation:
https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/issues/1558#issuecomment-1030713994
You can do a workaround by setting
PreserveThreading=false
Telegram
Matterbridge is not relaying messages from Telegram
See * https://core.telegram.org/bots#privacy-mode * https://github.com/yagop/node-telegram-bot-api/issues/174#issuecomment-244632667
If your bot is not getting messages:
Disable privacy mode with @Botfather.
- Go to BotFather send /setprivacy.
- Select the username of the bot.
- Select Disable.
- Kick bot from chat if it’s already in it.
- Invite bot to chat.
The order is important.
Matterbridge is not relay messages from other bots
Bots talking to each other could potentially get stuck in unwelcome loops. To avoid this, we decided that bots will not be able to see messages from other bots regardless of mode.
https://core.telegram.org/bots/faq#why-doesn-39t-my-bot-see-messages-from-other-bots
Matterbridge is not relaying images/stickers/files from Telegram
Because images/stickers/files are from non-public url’s, you’ll need to setup a mediaserver
Matterbridge is not relaying messages to Telegram
Did you enable MessageFormat="HTML" in your
config?
You could be sending invalid HTML. Set it to
MessageFormat=""
More info in https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/blob/master/matterbridge.toml.sample#L836-L838
Matterbridge is not deleting messages from Telegram to other bridges
Telegram doesn’t has “deleted messages” metadata, so we don’t know which messages are deleted.
Users are shown as “unknown user”
Telegram channels will always return unknown users. Telegram groups will show usernames if possible
Mattermost
mattermost not sending to other bridges.
Did you create a dedicated account for matterbridge? See https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/wiki/Section-Mattermost-(basic)
“version not supported error”
By default, matterbridge tries HTTPS to connect to your Mattermost
setup.
If you’re using a test setup for Mattermost, this will probably listen
on HTTP and on port 8065.
Add NoTLS=true and use
Server="yourmattermostserver.domain:8065" to your
Mattermost configuration.
See also
https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/wiki/Section-Mattermost-(basic)
Mattermost doesn’t show the IRC nicks
If you’re running the webhooks version, this can be fixed by either:
* enabling “override usernames”. See mattermost
documentation * setting PrefixMessagesWithNick to
true in mattermost section of your
matterbridge.toml.
If you’re running the login/password version, you’ll need to: *
setting PrefixMessagesWithNick to true in
mattermost section of your matterbridge.toml.
Also look at the RemoteNickFormat setting.
Session expire
Use personal access tokens that don’t expire https://docs.mattermost.com/developer/personal-access-tokens.html or increase the session timeout, see https://forum.mattermost.org/t/solved-removing-the-session-timeout/3033
Steam
Bridge doesn’t seem to work
See https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/issues/351 and https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3330-IAGK-7663 Apparently, the account you use needs to make a purchase on Steam for it to work.
Rocket.Chat
Keybase
Edit and deletes not working
Not support by the library we use (https://github.com/keybase/go-keybase-chat-bot/)
Teams
Receiving messages with attachments and images
Not supported by Microsoft API
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