Changed from 10 to 30 minutes to avoid false positives when
heartbeatMinutes is set to 10. The watchdog should be significantly
longer than the heartbeat interval to account for:
- Network latency
- Slow command responses
- Brief connection hiccups
With heartbeatMinutes=10, a 30-minute watchdog gives 3x buffer before
triggering auto-restart.
Fixes issue where unauthorized messages from +212652169245 (5elements spa)
triggered Bad MAC errors and silently killed the event emitter, preventing
all future message processing.
Changes:
1. Early allowFrom filtering in inbound.ts - blocks unauthorized senders
before they trigger encryption errors
2. Message timeout watchdog - auto-restarts connection if no messages
received for 10 minutes
3. Health monitoring in heartbeat - warns if >30 min without messages
4. Mock loadConfig in tests to handle new dependency
Root cause: Event emitter stopped firing after Bad MAC errors from
decryption attempts on messages from unauthorized senders. Connection
stayed alive but all subsequent messages.upsert events silently failed.
Replaces samePhoneMarker/samePhoneResponsePrefix with:
- messagePrefix: prefix for all inbound messages
- Default: '[warelay]' if no allowFrom, else ''
- responsePrefix: prefix for all outbound replies
Also adds timestamp options:
- timestampPrefix: boolean to enable [Nov 29 06:30] format
- timestampTimezone: IANA timezone (default UTC)
Updated README with new config table entries.
Automatically prefixes responses with a configurable string when in
same-phone mode. This helps distinguish bot replies from user messages
in the same chat bubble.
Example config:
"samePhoneResponsePrefix": "🦞"
Will prefix all same-phone replies with the lobster emoji.
Adds full support for self-messaging setups where you chat with yourself
and an AI assistant replies in the same WhatsApp bubble.
Changes:
- Same-phone mode (from === to) always allowed, bypasses allowFrom check
- Echo detection via bounded Set (max 100) prevents infinite loops
- Configurable samePhoneMarker in config (default: "[same-phone]")
- Messages prefixed with marker so assistants know the context
- fromMe filter removed from inbound.ts (echo detection in auto-reply)
- Verbose logging for same-phone detection and echo skips
Tests:
- Same-phone allowed without/despite allowFrom configuration
- Body prefixed only when from === to
- Non-same-phone rejected when not in allowFrom
- Wrap Baileys connection.update listeners in try-catch to prevent
unhandled exceptions from crashing the relay process
- Add WebSocket-level error handlers in session.ts
- Add global unhandledRejection/uncaughtException handlers in index.ts
- Make listener.onClose error-safe with .catch() in auto-reply.ts
- Change default heartbeat from 30min to 10min
- Rewrite claude-config.md with personality, better explain personal
assistant features, add recommended MCPs section
Peter Steinberger