Ability to create portals from whatsapp. Is this gone?

[CyberPingU]

Hello,
as far as I remember there was a command to create a portal from matrix to whatsapp: if mautrix-whatsapp bot was inside a room, issuing something like
!whatsapp create or !whatsapp create-portal.
This command appears to be gone. Is there a way to achieve the same? Or is it planned?

[RelevantWorm]

Having the same thing on mine as well. Was a little surprised when !wa create returned unknown command. The entire help section on creating portals seems to be missing which makes me unsure if this is a bug.

[RelevantWorm]

It was in the patch notes for version 0.11.0 that group management is not ready.

[CyberPingU]

It would be cool to know if it's on the road map or not planned ...

[spaetz]

according to the docs you can use the command "pm" to create portals, and the bot seems to know about it despite not being listed in the help text:
https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/python/telegram/creating-and-managing-chats.html?highlight=pm#creating-portals
Is that what you want?

[CyberPingU]

The link you're showing is for telegram, not for WhatsApp, as far as I saw... anyhow pm is a command to open chat with somebody, not to create portals to groups, is it? If it's the case I don't see how to use it

[jovandeginste]

In case this helps anyone else:

I used to create private chats with Whatsapp contacts using pm +123456789 in the chat with the Whatsapp Brigde Bot; this somehow stopped working, although I got a reply from the bot:

Found 123456789 / +123456789 (WA)

(But no chat was created).

After going through the help output a few times, I suddenly realized I had to use start-chat +123456789 instead, which promptly created the chat.

[dingodoppelt]

After going through the help output a few times, I suddenly realized I had to use start-chat +123456789 instead, which promptly created the chat.

Does "Chat" mean room or DM? I can only create rooms, no DMs anymore. Except for the existing DMs the bridge won't create anything but rooms, which is not what I want, when I want my chat to appear in "Persons" (in Element)

[jovandeginste]

I'm not certain how to explain, but the chats have all properties of DMs (they are marked as "person" as far as I can tell...)

[dingodoppelt]

I'm not certain how to explain, but the chats have all properties of DMs (they are marked as "person" as far as I can tell...)

I got it sorted now. There's a FAQ about that issue here

[EtienneHenger]

Not quite what you are looking for, but this could help for a workaround incase you are trying to link groups of different messagers: mautrix/signal#572 (comment)