Hey @mralbert
please 
Yes thats correct. Because normally when you send a message to a group you also dont receive a notification.
So solution can be: get a free prepaid at Vodafone. Download whatsapp business on your phone and configure the prepaid number as a Homey number 
Their is an international standard for phone nrâs
Its called E164 standard , every country and service provider is using them.
Just my 2 cents
@martijnpoppen amazing work, just installed and was not even aware it was such a recent release, thanks a ton for the hard work!
Direct messages are working like a Blizz, will make use of the workaround via a second number though;
Group Messages are not working for me yet, seems like an encryption issue? Messages get sent and are readable by others but are not readable by myself âwaiting for this message this may take a whileâ.
Also more like a general question, how does it work? considering the app gets access to all my messages I am curious whats the process behind it? Or do you basically have this open source client running on a Webserver and the homey-app is directly connecting to it?
Thanks a lot Martijn
Hey @Flyto
Thanks!
Yeah saw the group message message today as well.
I pushed a fix for it in the server.
So the library i use has the capability of reading messages and act on that. But i removed that all from this integration.
Because it will consume a lot of resources / youâll always shown as online / its not a good idea to do this on a cloud based instance.
During development i ran this integration natively on my Homey. Which worked fine on a HP19 but immediately crashed on a HP23.
For the data and authentication:
Hope this gives enough info 
Amazing, I just set up another number with WhatsApp-Business so now my apartment has its own WhatsApp account (lmao). That works amazingly well.
Great to hear you have a fix for the group message thing.
library capabilities: that makes a lot of sense, got it!
Any explanation why it worked well on the HP19 but not on the HP23? (shouldnât the newer one be more powerful? 
)
Also thanks a ton for taking the time to shine some light into the process, I think this will be relevant for a lot of people to give some peace of mind, so I really appreciate it
I wish i knew. Really couldnt find it and it drove me crazy. This app already started in June. So i spent many hours and then decided to put it in the cloud.
My only guess that it has to do with virtualization on HP23 which HP19 doesnât have
Still with one phone number connected on HP19 it was running at 45 MB ram. And 2 numbers on 65MB.
On HP23 it immediately spiked to CPU and Mem warnings and crashed in a couple of seconds 
I bet it did, I can imagine the rabbit-hole tour
Maybe Athom will fix it sometime, must be a firmware issue for sure but thats some behavior I have seen with the Unifi App as well, completely crashed my Homey.
Do you think having it running in the cloud will be sustainable with increasing amounts of users?
Yeah its really smooth until now and this app almost has 400 users 
Still running on a low tier instance so enough room to scale up.
But as long as i can keep it on a low tier it will keep the costs down as well
thatâs what I thought, sounds costly for something that should theoretically also be able to run locally. Maybe Athom can figure out whats going onâŚ
Changelog:
NEW:
1: NEW: remove QR and use Code to pair with Whatsapp
2: NEW: use E.164 standard to validate phone numbers (Thanks for the tip @MarcoV !)
FIXES:
1: FIX: pairing code stuck on pairing code screen
2: FIX: group links
3: FIX: message not sending due to client destroyed after previous message (debounce added)
If you find any issues, send a report via the mobile homey app
More - apps - Whatsapp - settings wheel right top - send diagnostic report (put your email in the input field to make it easier)
Yep, same format as mine number.
HP2023
After filling in my phone number 97xxxxxxxxxx
I get
Changelog:
NEW:
1: NEW: Use Whatsapp Locally instead of Server
FIXES:
1: none
If you find any issues, send a report via the mobile homey app
More - apps - Whatsapp - settings wheel right top - send diagnostic report (put your email in the input field to make it easier)
@Flyto You might want to check the above release
It doesnât depend on a server.
If you check it can you let me know the memory usage?
With 14.4.4 I get to the stage where I can fill in the generated 8 digit code, but when I enter these in WhatsApp it doesnât finish âInloggenâ status.
(with the v14.4.3 I also got $tmpl.login_credentials.invalid_credentials)
UPDATE:
It did work when trying to add a new WhatsApp âsystemâ using the Web GuiâŚ
After entering the 8 digits in WhatsApp on my phone I got the confirmation screen on Homey Web AppâŚ
