tetchel/shexter

Shell Texter - Send and read text messages from the comfort of your terminal

See client page for readme

shexter's Issues

If you enter a whitespace contact name it will still send the request to the server

This is trivial to detect client side, it is already checked line 178, but should call strip() in that line instead of where it is currently called below so that whitespace names are rejected.

Ideally this check loop until a valid contact name is entered or user quits, similar to way IP is entered, rather than quitting.

Shexter unable to record video and send video from the terminal

I was trying to send a video between 1-10 seconds long to a girl using Shexter but it is not supported.

Configure command

Edit the settings file from the client. Suggest using after a timeout.

Desktop notifications

via notify-send

notify-send test

Should be themed by your DE already.

ugly message when cancelling input

[ /home/tim ] $ shexter send
You must specify a Contact Name for Send and Read and SetPref commands. Enter one now:
Enter a new contact name (CTRL + C to give up): ^C
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/shexter/shexter.py", line 416, in
main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/opt/shexter/shexter.py", line 402, in main
command, request = build_request(args)
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
[ /home/tim ] $

Settings created in /opt; not user-writable

settings_fullpath is not user-writable in current state.

going to fix soon with multi-OS best practices

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/204856/standard-config-file-naming-pattern-and-locations

CTRL+C sends EOF on Windows, different from nix

Need to catch EOFError in main

Security

right now others can literally read your texts and send them for you if they are on your LAN and know your phone's IP

There should be rsa auth, like how android does with usb debugging (one-time only is enough)

Long messages (split SMS) only sends last SMS

e.g. SMS is 300 characters, you will only get last 140 chars

Sending SMS messages >160 chars does not work

Output of print("1234567890"*16) is 160 chars and sends successfully.

161 chars and above and no message will be sent. Shexter still displays successful message.
e.g. one line of 161 chars does not show up.
one line of 80 and one line of 81 does not show up.

Strangely, cows are partially working.
If multiple cowsays are sent, e.g. 3 cows in succession (one cow exhibited)

 ______________________ 
< I like Shexter! Moo! >
 ---------------------- 
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

the message shows up in the phone's messenger client, displaying "Not sent. Tap to try again." Tapping will send the message.

'read'ing messages does not always display messages I sent

For some conversations, none of my sent messages are displayed
For some conversations, some of my sent messages are displayed
For some conversations, all of my sent messages are displayed

windows installer doesn't work

self reminder to fix this when i get home

• need to mkdir -p user_config_dir (makedirs is the os function)
• need to include appdirs.py in the same directory as installer_windows.py
• (stretch) need to make it easier to download all installer files at once (how about a hook that zips the files)

Allow skipping auto-finding when running 'shexter config'

Ring command

find your phone regardless of volume

Carriage return is a one way road

Cannot go back to previous line in send message field

enhancement dump

Top priority: Resolve connection to phone through internet. Removes need for config.
Second: TUI (do it @nwam)

App

• start with phone, so it's always running - Done but needs testing (appears to stop running sometimes. maybe it crashes? need to look at logs)

Client

• "successfully sent n messages to x" needs updating for -n case - Done
• remove 'connecting...' messages for regular use - Done

Installers

• If you run the installer without CD'ing first, it won't be able to find the directory with the common files

Shexter as daemon

Running in the background.

Notifying when disconnected, and connected to phone.

Is there a way to push instead of poll?

'message body was empty' check appears to only check if first line of message is empty

who puts new lines in a text anyway

emoji shortcuts

Because emojis are essential when you talk to a lady, it would be nice to have an easy way to insert emojis like such: Hi ur <100><fire><fire> or maybe Hi ur !100!fire!fire with output as: Hi ur 💯🔥🔥

(note to self: check how good input method emoji input is, e.g. fcitx-table-other)

Bonus feature for the advanced user who spends their Valentine's on GitHub: No First Blood 🚫👆💉
Every girl likes to receive emojis, but only henceafter they themselves send you an emoji. This feature would not allow you to send a first blood emoji.

ncurses interface

for reading and sending texts.

• contact list
  • favourite contacts
  • sort by most recently texted
• conversation pane

installer still permission issues on linux

tim@wintergreen ~ $ shexter hello
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/shexter/shexter.py", line 10, in
from appdirs import user_config_dir
File "", line 969, in _find_and_load
File "", line 958, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 673, in _load_unlocked
File "", line 661, in exec_module
File "", line 766, in get_code
File "", line 818, in get_data
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/opt/shexter/appdirs.py'

Issue with sending after setpref

Phone did not send the send confirmation response, so client hangs 👎