Reported issues for WhatsApp Connect

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Dashboard: live chat updates, profile pictures, and document download/preview

Three gaps from real daily use of the dashboard's chat screen (v0.3.1):

1. Refreshing the chat screen (decided: a refresh button, not background real-time)

A chat that is open shows nothing new until it is re-opened. Decision: no background streaming — a refresh control loads what's new on demand, which fits the operator-console character and keeps the page quiet:

• A refresh button on the messages pane (and one for the chat list); clicking fetches only messages newer than the newest a

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Captioned documents decode as media-less kind 'other' — DocumentWithCaptionMessage wrapper is not unwrapped

Summary

A document sent with a caption is stored as kind other with no text, no filename, and no media reference — download_media on it fails with message media: message has no media. A document sent without a caption stores correctly as kind document.

Cause

decodeMessage (internal/bridge/events.go) matches msg.GetDocumentMessage(), but WhatsApp wraps a captioned document in a DocumentWithCaptionMessage container: the real DocumentMessage lives at `msg.GetDocumentW

Read the thread · 2026-08-18 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

Message ingestion silently stalls while doctor reports healthy; reconnect leaves two processes sharing the same SQLite data dir

Summary

Message ingestion silently stopped writing to messages.db while doctor kept reporting the session as healthy, and a client reconnect later spawned a second server process alongside the orphaned first one, both sharing the same SQLite files. The missed messages are permanently absent from the local mirror because WhatsApp does not redeliver events that were already delivered to the (still-"online") linked session.

Observed on Windows 10 (10.0.19045), local dev build at `87b5a

Read the thread · 2026-08-18 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

Feature ideas: scheduled sends + inbound-message events

Two feature ideas, both aimed at using the server from autonomous / long-running agents.

1. Scheduled sends ("send on timer")

Send a message or media at a future time, or after a delay, instead of immediately.

Sketch:

• Either an optional send_at (RFC 3339) / delay param on the existing send tools, or a dedicated schedule_send + list_scheduled + cancel_scheduled trio.
• The gate still applies at fire time. An untrusted recipient must not become a way to fire unattended se

Read the thread · 2026-08-18 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

list_messages: handle time server-side instead of raw Unix seconds + agent translation

Problem

list_messages (and any other time-bounded tool) takes after / before as raw Unix seconds. To answer an ordinary request like "today's messages" or "yesterday's messages", the agent has to:

1. Know the user's timezone (guessed from context — here, IST for a Kolkata group).
2. Compute the local day boundaries.
3. Convert those to Unix epoch — in practice by shelling out to date -u -d '...' +%s.

That is brittle and a poor agent experience:

• **The agent hand-translates ti

Read the thread · 2026-08-18 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

Backlog: capabilities to add

Capability backlog, worked through end-to-end. All eleven items are now shipped or consciously scoped out, each with tests; the table below is the current status rather than a to-do list. Two sub-features are deferred (their own scope), and a second round of improvements — surfaced by actually using the server — is tracked in separate issues (see the bottom).

Status

Read the thread · 2026-08-18 · closed · outside contributor · 7 comments

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