sands-client (a fork of I2P Chat AKA I2P Qt Messenger)

Screenshots

TBD add

Features

• The communication goes «directly over i2p» from client to client, no server is required.[1] Note: The connections to the so-called «seedless» servers were removed from this project.

How to run it

You need to enable SAM in your router on java i2p configclients page or i2pd's [sam] config section at i2pd.conf to make I2P Chat work over your I2P router.

TBD make more user-friendly and include i2pd directly into the codebase of sands-client for better UX.

Project news and history

Current news

5 Jan, 2017: Original repo at http://git.repo.i2p/w/I2P-Messenger-QT.git was fully merged here.

History

Original developer of this messenger went away.

License

The license of this software is GPLv2.

Build instructions

• Install prerequisites:

sudo apt-get install qt5-qmake qt5-default build-essential libqt5multimedia5 qtmultimedia5-dev

• Run qmake for either release:

qmake I2P-Messenger.pro "CONFIG += release"

or for debug:

qmake I2P-Messenger.pro "CONFIG += debug"

• And after that,

make -j NUMBER_OF_PROCESSOR_CORES

or simply

make

Running

On Linux, make creates I2P-Messenger executable in the current folder. Run it with ./I2P-Messenger. When ran, switch yourself to online. It will generate your Destination address (a key) on first connect to SAM.

Old files and sites

• http://echelon.i2p/qti2pmessenger/macos → Mac OS X versions, not tested;
• http://echelon.i2p/qti2pmessenger/ → old eche|on's site for I2P Chat (versions up to 0.2.24);
• https://launchpad.net/~i2p.packages/+archive/ubuntu/i2p/+sourcepub/4824794/+listing-archive-extra → Kill Your TV's PPA (v.0.2.25).
• http://git.repo.i2p/w/I2P-Messenger-QT.git/shortlog → original repo (fully merged into this /i2pchat)

Forum thread (English)

http://forum.i2p/viewtopic.php?t=2474

Footnotes

[1] http://forum.i2p/viewtopic.php?p=11071#11071