FluffyChat push notification with sygnal!!

#fluffychat #flutter #messenger #matrix

How you can add FluffyChat messenger to your custom application with your package name or your unique bundle id?

FluffyChat source code => Link

In my new project development, I realized some information about FluffyChat Messenger.

You can add all of the FluffyChat source code to your new project but absolutely your push notification not working,
if you want to use Firebase Cloud Messaging in FluffyChat for sending a push notification in your new application.

Plz follow these steps:

1) Create new app in https://console.firebase.google.com/ and add google-serices.json to your project

2) Setup and install sygnal in your server

3) In FluffyChat source code plz change pushNotificationsAppId and pushNotificationsGatewayUrl in app_config.dart file

4) Add this line of code in sygnal source code:
in gcmpushkin.py add bottom line of code to _build_data function:

data["devices"] = [{"pushkey": device.pushkey,"data": device.data,"pushkey_ts": device.pushkey_ts,"app_id": device.app_id}]

You can see this repository:
https://github.com/taherfattahi/sygnal

5) Add FCM Server key to sygnal.yaml in sygnal project

If you have any problem you can get in touch with me, my email address: taherfattahi11@gmail.com 😉

Top comments (12)

Robin Westerik • Aug 15 '23

Thanks Taher for sharing your findings. As it seems that FluffyChat's own push gateway hasn't been kept public, using the matrix reference gateway indeed seems like the way to go.

I'd like to add one thing however. In background_push.dart, FluffyChat seems to add a .data_message suffix to the app id. This could cause issues with sygnal not finding the right app id.

I fixed this by removing ".data_message" in FluffyChat's code, but adding .data_message to the app_id in the sygnal.yaml might work just as well.

vinayak dev • Oct 6 '23

Are you mentioning SYGNAL as a matrix reference gateway? if so, can you provider any more resourse on how to set up?

Taher Fattahi • Oct 6 '23 • Edited

yes, you can use sygnal as a push gateway for fluffychat or any matrix client platform but you need to set configurations and modify some sections of the source code so it's not easy for everyone.
anyway you can use this push gateway instead of sygnal
famedly-push-gateway

vinayak dev • Oct 6 '23

Yeah.. Thanks for the quickie response. Actually, we are building our own Chat Application and we have tried famedly-push-gateway. When running the famedlyPushGateway.js file.. nothing happens and we don't know what we are missing and how to proceed then.. How can we make sure everything fits in place?

Taher Fattahi • Oct 6 '23

You need to set this variable in fluffychat:
static const String pushNotificationsGatewayUrl =
because synapse or any matrix home server needs to know about your push notification URL for sending notifications to the push gateway microservice