Show HN: Vibed Linux Rust BitChat Client Using Bluez

This repository is a linux rust bitchat bitchat client using the bluer library and snow for noise. Vibes also came from bitchat_tui

Shout out to Jack Dorsey, Vaibhav Mattoo & Anthropic for making this possible

This was coded entirely by chat, built & tested on a Raspberry Pi CM5 SPR Router. It uses the bluer bluez-based library for publishing & consuming GATT services.

To build & run, docker compose build && docker compose run bitchat

• Runs on Linux in the terminal
• Handles Noise XX E2E encryption
• Relays Packets

• Plugin can be run on linux systems but is also tailored to work for SPR with docker-compose-spr.yml and plugin.json
• This plugin enables SPR to join the Bitchat mesh and relay messages
• An operator can also attach to the container and interact in the UI
• Can be provisioned with an API key for https://github.com/spr-networks/super to hand out unique wifi passwords to bitchat clients
• The plugin can be installed in SPR from the URL https://github.com/spr-networks/bitchat-plugin

Users can dm "wifi?" to get a unique password.

• Add support for https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openwifipass
• Add wireguard provisioning support
• Relay BT over UDP/wg