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Has anyone got the Element X App working with Cloudron Matrix?

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  • humptydumptyH Offline
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    wrote on last edited by humptydumpty
    #2

    I’ve been using it for a few weeks now with no issues or none that I’ve noticed lol. I haven’t used element for calling in a while so can’t comment if that works or not, but texting, room creation, etc all works fine.

    I just installed element x app on iOS and logged in. I didn’t change anything server wise.

    Edit: I just reread your post. Idk what that sliding thing is, so this post is probably unhelpful. Please disregard.

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      #3

      Btw, I have a shared room with multiple users and it’s the only room that doesn’t send notifications (pre-element x). Have you ran into this issue?

      Other rooms and direct 1 to 1 DM sends notifications flawlessly. I triple checked all settings. 🤔

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      • humptydumptyH humptydumpty

        I’ve been using it for a few weeks now with no issues or none that I’ve noticed lol. I haven’t used element for calling in a while so can’t comment if that works or not, but texting, room creation, etc all works fine.

        I just installed element x app on iOS and logged in. I didn’t change anything server wise.

        Edit: I just reread your post. Idk what that sliding thing is, so this post is probably unhelpful. Please disregard.

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        @humptydumpty said in Has anyone got the Element X App working with Cloudron Matrix?:

        I’ve been using it for a few weeks now with no issues or none that I’ve noticed lol. I haven’t used element for calling in a while so can’t comment if that works or not, but texting, room creation, etc all works fine.

        OK, great, thanks.

        @humptydumpty said in Has anyone got the Element X App working with Cloudron Matrix?:

        Edit: I just reread your post. Idk what that sliding thing is, so this post is probably unhelpful. Please disregard.

        It's OK. The sliding thing is a new baked into Matrix thing that is supposed to make everything much faster. Element X is supposed to take advantage of it. Last time I tried to connect to my Matrix using Element X it didn't work. I'll try again and see what happens...

        I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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        • jdaviescoatesJ jdaviescoates

          @humptydumpty said in Has anyone got the Element X App working with Cloudron Matrix?:

          I’ve been using it for a few weeks now with no issues or none that I’ve noticed lol. I haven’t used element for calling in a while so can’t comment if that works or not, but texting, room creation, etc all works fine.

          OK, great, thanks.

          @humptydumpty said in Has anyone got the Element X App working with Cloudron Matrix?:

          Edit: I just reread your post. Idk what that sliding thing is, so this post is probably unhelpful. Please disregard.

          It's OK. The sliding thing is a new baked into Matrix thing that is supposed to make everything much faster. Element X is supposed to take advantage of it. Last time I tried to connect to my Matrix using Element X it didn't work. I'll try again and see what happens...

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          @jdaviescoates I had to go through the "forgot password" process so my login would work. I think that issue is related to me only since I had moved the app across servers that had different users/credentials than the original. Maybe it'll work for you too. GL.

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          • jdaviescoatesJ jdaviescoates

            I sounded like the Sliding Sync thing was included in the package a while ago, but the Element X phone app that takes advantage of it doesn't seem work with Matrix on Cloudron yet - unless that's just me?

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            @jdaviescoates said in Has anyone got the Element X App working with Cloudron Matrix?:

            unless that's just me?

            I tried the element x app on ipad os and when selecting my Cloudron homeserver I am getting a message "Server not supported" and "The selected homeserver doens't support password or oidc login.". Also the QR code login is shown as "not supported" within Element. Is it that what you mean?

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            • fbartelsF fbartels

              @jdaviescoates said in Has anyone got the Element X App working with Cloudron Matrix?:

              unless that's just me?

              I tried the element x app on ipad os and when selecting my Cloudron homeserver I am getting a message "Server not supported" and "The selected homeserver doens't support password or oidc login.". Also the QR code login is shown as "not supported" within Element. Is it that what you mean?

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              @fbartels from memory, yeah pretty much exactly something like that, yes

              I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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                #8

                I went down this rabbit hole now to investigate. The docs are hard to understand on the status quo or even where matrix is going and nuggets of information is various GitHub issues. Anyways, a few hours later, the rough summary is this:

                • matrix synapse has built-in OIDC support. This built-in auth of synapse is now considered "legacy" auth. This legacy auth is only supported by the Element app.

                • matrix now has a new authentication spec. This is implemented in MAS - Matrix Authentication Service which has just 43 stars and is in v0.12.0

                • The idea of MAS is to take over user management and authentication. It runs as a separate web service, in it's own domain, has it's own db of users. IOW, with MAS, the users will move from the synapse web service to the MAS. There is a syn2mas migration script to move users.

                • To deploy MAS seems not so hard (is a single rust binary) but configuring it is a beast. See https://element-hq.github.io/matrix-authentication-service/ .

                • The Element X app only works when matrix is deployed with MAS . There is no plan to make it work with non-MAS setups.

                I have no idea how stable and production ready all this is. As mentioned, the version is just 0.x and I can't find any information of when this hits 1.0. Reminds of the sliding sync situation. It was hyped up for a while and then later they obsoleted it.

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                • girishG girish

                  I went down this rabbit hole now to investigate. The docs are hard to understand on the status quo or even where matrix is going and nuggets of information is various GitHub issues. Anyways, a few hours later, the rough summary is this:

                  • matrix synapse has built-in OIDC support. This built-in auth of synapse is now considered "legacy" auth. This legacy auth is only supported by the Element app.

                  • matrix now has a new authentication spec. This is implemented in MAS - Matrix Authentication Service which has just 43 stars and is in v0.12.0

                  • The idea of MAS is to take over user management and authentication. It runs as a separate web service, in it's own domain, has it's own db of users. IOW, with MAS, the users will move from the synapse web service to the MAS. There is a syn2mas migration script to move users.

                  • To deploy MAS seems not so hard (is a single rust binary) but configuring it is a beast. See https://element-hq.github.io/matrix-authentication-service/ .

                  • The Element X app only works when matrix is deployed with MAS . There is no plan to make it work with non-MAS setups.

                  I have no idea how stable and production ready all this is. As mentioned, the version is just 0.x and I can't find any information of when this hits 1.0. Reminds of the sliding sync situation. It was hyped up for a while and then later they obsoleted it.

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                  @girish said in Has anyone got the Element X App working with Cloudron Matrix?:

                  It was hyped up for a while and then later they obsoleted it.

                  I don't think it was obsloted, I think it was rolled into Synapse, no?

                  I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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                  • jdaviescoatesJ jdaviescoates

                    @girish said in Has anyone got the Element X App working with Cloudron Matrix?:

                    It was hyped up for a while and then later they obsoleted it.

                    I don't think it was obsloted, I think it was rolled into Synapse, no?

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                    @jdaviescoates I should have been clearer... I meant the sliding sync webapp got obsoleted and the repo was archived. TBH, I don't really know if the protocol / implementation was merged in a compatible way.

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                    • girishG girish

                      I went down this rabbit hole now to investigate. The docs are hard to understand on the status quo or even where matrix is going and nuggets of information is various GitHub issues. Anyways, a few hours later, the rough summary is this:

                      • matrix synapse has built-in OIDC support. This built-in auth of synapse is now considered "legacy" auth. This legacy auth is only supported by the Element app.

                      • matrix now has a new authentication spec. This is implemented in MAS - Matrix Authentication Service which has just 43 stars and is in v0.12.0

                      • The idea of MAS is to take over user management and authentication. It runs as a separate web service, in it's own domain, has it's own db of users. IOW, with MAS, the users will move from the synapse web service to the MAS. There is a syn2mas migration script to move users.

                      • To deploy MAS seems not so hard (is a single rust binary) but configuring it is a beast. See https://element-hq.github.io/matrix-authentication-service/ .

                      • The Element X app only works when matrix is deployed with MAS . There is no plan to make it work with non-MAS setups.

                      I have no idea how stable and production ready all this is. As mentioned, the version is just 0.x and I can't find any information of when this hits 1.0. Reminds of the sliding sync situation. It was hyped up for a while and then later they obsoleted it.

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                      @girish said in Has anyone got the Element X App working with Cloudron Matrix?:

                      matrix now has a new authentication spec. This is implemented in MAS - Matrix Authentication Service which has just 43 stars and is in v0.12.0

                      I just realised that 1.0.0 was released 2 days ago!

                      https://github.com/element-hq/matrix-authentication-service/releases/tag/v1.0.0

                      I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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                        Element X calls seem to require additional well-known configuration for Matrix RTC for calls.

                        When I tried to make a call with Element X, I got this error:

                        Error Code: MISSING_MATRIX_RTC_FOCUS
                        

                        The issue is discussed here with some workarounds: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/issues/4224

                        From what I can gather, it seems you need to configure /.well-known/matrix/client or /.well-known/element/element.json with RTC settings, but I'm not sure of the exact setup for Cloudron.

                        Anyone figured this out?

                        This discussion might be closely related:
                        https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/13140/

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