Matrix dendrite sliding sync proxy setup

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Hello everyone!

After searching and searching for a solution for my issue I think I may have stumbled upon something. I have been trying to get my matrix server up and running so that I can move on to the next project.

The issue I was running into was mobile element Client users could not join group calls. Mobile Element users need to use Element X, however Element X users cannot join my Dendrite server because I do not have sliding sync proxy set up.

I have heard that synapse has sliding sync already enabled but I have not been able to tackle synapse. Dendrite has just worked out of the box for me besides this one issue.

Originally when I was tackling the issue of sliding sync I had read somewhere that it was not compatible with dendrite. So that had crushed my hopes and dreams of using dendrite and I hadn't looked back ever since.... Until now.

I went to the official matrix sliding sync github page and wouldn't you know it, there is a note that says:

NOTE: The proxy works fine with Dendrite and Synapse, but it doesn't work well with Conduit due to spec violations in the state of a room in /sync. Running the proxy with Conduit will cause more expired connections (HTTP 400s) when room state changes, and log lines like WRN Accumulator.filterToNewTimelineEvents: seen the same event ID twice, ignoring.

So now I am trying to set this up with my current matrix dendrite docker image. However I don't really understand how to follow this guide to make it talk to my pre existing containers.

Thank you all for your time!

My system software:

Ubuntu 20.04 with CasaOS and docker

The guide and documentation I followed for setting up matrix dendrite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFDFR6EBG3k

https://wiki.opensourceisawesome.com/books/setup-matrix-chat/page/install-matrix-using-the-dendrite-server_

Official sliding sync documentation that I am trying to setup:

https://github.com/matrix-org/sliding-sync

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You should use synapse. Dendrite is not intended for self-hosted homeservers. You will have an easier time with calling/rtc with synapse as well.

Here is a good example of how to set up a home server, which was shown off by the devs at fosdem last weekend:

https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo

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I got exactly this config working. The compose file wasn't the problem. I had to fiddle around with my caddy proxy setup. Do you want my settings? Or do you use something other than caddy?

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I am using cloudflare tunnels as of right now. I would be very appreciative if I could take a looj at your settings!

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services:
  sliding-sync:
    image: ghcr.io/matrix-org/sliding-sync:v0.99.1
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 8881:8881
    environment:
      - SYNCV3_SECRET=yoursecret
      - SYNCV3_SERVER=https://newsub.domain.com/
      - SYNCV3_DB=user=syncv3 dbname=syncv3 sslmode=disable
        host=sliding-postgres password=secret
      - SYNCV3_BINDADDR=0.0.0.0:8881
    depends_on:
      - sliding-postgres
  sliding-postgres:
    image: postgres:16-alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_USER=syncv3
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=secret
      - POSTGRES_DB=syncv3
    volumes:
      - sliding_db_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
volumes:
  sliding_db_data: null
networks: {}

This is my sliding compose file, and this is the Caddyfile part just for sliding:

newsub.domain.com {
        encode gzip
        header /.well-known/matrix/* Content-Type application/json
        header /.well-known/matrix/* Access-Control-Allow-Origin *
        respond /.well-known/matrix/server {"m.server":"newsub.domain.com:443"}
        respond /.well-known/matrix/client {"m.homeserver":{"base_url":"https://newsub.domain.com/"},"org.matrix.msc3575.proxy":{"url":"https://newsub.domain.com/sliding-sync"}}
        reverse_proxy /_matrix/* http://192.168.1.1:8008/ {
                transport http {
                        compression on
                }
        }
        handle_path /sliding-sync/* {
                reverse_proxy http://192.168.1.1:8881/
        }

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I was able to get it working with this docker compose!! Thank you!

I can now sign inyo element x and schildi next! The only problem is none of my chats are showing up and when I create a new room it dissapears as soon as I back out into the chats tab.

Any idea on how to fix it?

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Correct you need a separate subdomain.

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Matrix dendrite sliding sync proxy setup