Does not update message logs when sent from a Mac/iPhone

[midi1996]

Here the video of the issue:

https://streamable.com/qbmutu

Basically sending messages from your iPhone or macOS wont show up in the chat log in SMServer unless you refresh the webpage or switch users.

[itsjunetime]

Yes — I've been aware of this for a while, but have yet to find a good solution for it. The issue is simply that I've yet to find an easy/elegant solution to detect, with a high level of accuracy, when texts are sent outside of SMServer. For more technical detail, read below, but tl;dr is that I'm working on it and would like to get this fixed as well.

For detecting when the host device receives a chat, libsmserver creates a notification observer for the notification name __kIMChatMessageReceivedNotification. This observer is then notified every time the device receives a new message, and sends it to SMServer to be parsed correctly. There is a similar notification that is theoretically posted every time a message is sent from the host device's iMessage account (and I think phone number as well) with the name __kIMChatRegistryMessageSentNotification. I have tried creating a notification observer for this notification in every way I know how: in SpringBoard and many other processes, while connected to the IMDaemon and while disconnected, on the main thread and on background threads, etc, and I have yet to find a way to actually listen to when this notification is posted. I also say that it is theoretically posted because every time that I try to work on this, the system randomly stops posting this notification about a half hour or hour into working on this, so I can rarely make any progress on figuring it out. It's been tough, but I have been slowly making progress, and I hope to have this fixed soon (though how soon, I cannot say).

[sabogalc]

sgtaziz/WebMessage#42 (comment)

[itsjunetime]

Alright, it's taken quite a while but I think I've got this one fixed -- SMServer commit and libsmserver commit

[sabogalc]

Can you test for this issue?

[itsjunetime]

Can you test for this issue?

Looks like I'm not running into that issue; not quite sure why it's being weird for sgtaziz.

[sabogalc]

I still have to click out of a chat and then back into it to see messages that I sent from my Mac.

I sent my "Don't mind me" text from my Mac, and I had to click out of the chat and back into it to see the message. I also sent a tapback from my Mac that you can see hasn't shown up in this screenshot yet. Also, for some reason, my contact's name was displayed under the message.

UPDATE - Okay, so something interesting to note about that Troll Face is that it is an iMessage sticker. It got me curious, and sure enough, I opened tickets for MyMessage, WebMessage, and BlueBubbles Desktop to support iMessage stickers. Let me know if I should open one for SMServer too. Out of all of the desktop apps, SMServer was the only one to load in the Troll Face GIF, and it correctly plays as a GIF, even though it is as a separate message and not an overlay over the Instagram DM screenshot. Here is some message information from the Troll Face.

tapback_guid="p:0/10B16418-20C0-4B59-B3D3-88E8DC5EEC75"

img src="data?path=StickerCache/860d0c7a4b56110a49c62c007eda589e-860d0c7a4b56110a49c62c007eda589e-sticker/860d0c7a4b56110a49c62c007eda589e-sticker.gif"

Of course, I had to try and put a tapback on the sticker just to mess around

but honestly, not much happened on my iPhone. I could see no visible changes in the conversation, and all that happened was that the conversation preview showed the emphasis.

[sabogalc]

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