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Console, Message Commands

Contents 1 Console Messaging Commands 1.1 Overview 1.2 To a person 1.3 To a group 1.4 To friends 1.5 To friends at a location 1.6 To a discussion 1.7 To nearby friends 2 If rhub gets confused

[edit] Console Messaging Commands

[edit] Overview

You can use your phone, your instant messaging account or email to send messages with rhub! The magic that makes this happen is what we call the Console - a way of interacting with rhub using simple text-based commands.

Before you start using the Console, make sure you've properly set up your Profile with your contact details, otherwise rhub will ignore your message, as it thinks its coming from a non-user.

• Messaging commands use the '>' (send to) prefix
• Other characters you may be familiar with play a part in message commands as well:
  • @ - location
  • & - group
  • # - number (in messaging case, thread id)

You can send these commands using the Console.

[edit] To a person

Sends a message to a contact
>[person] [message]

Example: Sends a message to Thom
>thom Hey thom, how's it going?

Hint: If you are sending a message to a contact, you can address someone by their full name or username, and rhub should be able to handle mispellings. Also, if you have a contact named 'Alexandra' for example, you can also message them simply as 'Alex' (assuming you don't have a contact named 'Alex'). If you want to message someone who's not a contact, you have to use their unique rhub username.

[edit] To a group

Sends a message to a group you've joined. This uses the Unique Group Name, not the longer group title.
>&[group] [message]

Example: Sends a message to the 'streets' group
>&streets Hey streets people

Hint: If you leave out the '&' by mistake, rhub will still send the message correctly as long as there are no users with the same name.

[edit] To friends

Sends a message to friends
>> [message] or >friends [message]

Example: Sends 'anyone going out?' to your friends
>>Anyone going out?

Read more about messaging friends

[edit] To friends at a location

Sends a message to friends at named location
>@[location] [message]

Example: Sends a message to a location named 'RE'
>@re Hey everyone at the RE!

Read more about messaging locations

[edit] To a discussion

Sends a message to a discussion thread
>#[thread id] [message]

Example: Sends 'I agree' to thread 100
>#100 I agree

[edit] To nearby friends

Sends a message to nearby friends >@ [message]

[edit] If rhub gets confused

If rhub is having trouble finding what/who you're trying to send a message to, try adding a colon (:) after the name, for example:
>&test: Message to test group
>John: Message to John

Rhub will match anything before the colon, instead of just looking at the first word.