Browse the docs

Features

Your phone

Archie Mobile, chat apps, notifications, and who may message your agent.

On this page

Archie Mobile#

Archie Mobile, for iPhone and Android, reaches the agent on your computer, which locks every message with a key that only your phone also holds.

  • On your computer
  • From your phone
  • Since 0.3.1
Where it is
On an agent's Setup tab, under Chat app, the Archie Mobile row has the link to get it and the code that connects it.
How to use it
  1. Install Archie Mobile from the App Store on iPhone, or from the Android download.
  2. In Archie, open an agent's Setup tab and choose Chat app.
  3. On the Archie Mobile row, press Show the code.
  4. In Archie Mobile, press Scan and point the camera at the code.
From your phone
On iPhone from the App Store, and on Android as a download from a file rather than a store; the Android version is older, so newer features reach iPhone first.
Limits
  • Your agent runs on your computer, so it has to be on, awake and running Archie for the phone to reach it.
  • It does most of what you do at the computer. Signing in to an account still happens at the computer.
  • We hold the locked messages and cannot read them. We can see when one was left, which Archie version wrote it, and whether a command is done.
  • Whoever holds the phone holds the key. Disconnect every phone, under the code in Archie, cuts a lost phone off.

Your agent on iMessage, with its own Apple ID#

On a Mac, your agent answers in iMessage in the chat you have with yourself, with its name on its replies, or on an Apple ID of its own.

  • On your computer
  • From your phone
  • Since 0.3.6
Where it is
On the agent's Setup tab, under Chat app, iMessage, in Which Apple ID Messages uses for your agent.
How to use it
  1. Make an Apple ID for your agent and sign a spare Mac's Messages into it.
  2. In Archie on that Mac, open the agent's Setup tab and choose Chat app, then iMessage.
  3. Under Which Apple ID Messages uses for your agent, pick the agent's own.
  4. Type the phone number or Apple ID email you will text it from.
From your phone
You text it from your iPhone's Messages like any other contact.
Limits
  • The second way takes that Mac's Messages off your own Apple ID, so use a spare Mac.
  • In the chat with yourself, Messages still shows each message twice. The name only makes your agent's half easy to read.
  • Text Replies then reads the messages on the agent's Apple ID.
  • Nobody has tried it yet on a real Mac signed into a second Apple ID.

Notifications on Archie Mobile#

Turn on notifications in Archie Mobile and your phone shows reminders, reports, new mail, and replies to what you sent from it, even with the app closed.

  • On your computer
  • From your phone
  • Since 0.3.9
Where it is
In Archie Mobile, under Settings, Notifications.
How to use it
  1. In Archie Mobile, open Settings.
  2. Under Notifications, turn them on, and allow them when your phone asks.
From your phone
On iPhone, from Archie Mobile 1.3 with Archie 0.3.9 on the computer; the Android download does not have it yet.
Limits
  • Your computer sends them, so it has to be on, awake and running Archie. Its window can be closed.
  • Only the owner's phone gets them. A teammate's phone does not.
  • On an agent with a chat app connected, a reply's notification comes about 15 seconds after your agent goes quiet.
  • What each one says is locked on your computer and opened on your phone, so we, Apple and Google pass it along without reading it.

A phone message waits for a sleeping computer#

A message sent from Archie Mobile while your computer sleeps waits and says so, and your agent answers it when the computer wakes, knowing it was sent earlier.

  • On your computer
  • From your phone
  • Since 0.3.5
Where it is
In Archie Mobile, on the waiting message.
How to use it
  1. To take back a waiting message, press Remove it.
From your phone
In Archie Mobile on iPhone and Android.
Limits
  • Your agent answers only once the computer running Archie is on and Archie is open.
  • Remove it works only if the computer has not picked the message up yet.
  • Nobody has yet tried it on a real phone against a sleeping computer.

Run a routine or tune a skill from your phone#

From Archie Mobile you can run a routine now, pick a skill's Response quality, and switch a skill's scheduled messages off and on.

  • On your computer
  • From your phone
  • Since 0.3.5
Where it is
In Archie Mobile, on a skill's or routine's row, which opens in place.
How to use it
  1. In Archie Mobile, open your agent's skills or routines.
  2. Press a row to open it, then press Run now or change a setting.
From your phone
In Archie Mobile on iPhone and Android.
Limits
  • The computer running Archie does the work, so it has to be on, awake and running Archie.
  • Connecting an account for a skill still happens at the computer.
  • Nobody has watched it on a real phone yet.

Short answers on your phone#

Text your agent from your phone and it answers in the first line and keeps the reply short, with no headings.

  • On your computer
  • From your phone
  • Since 0.3.11
Where it is
Messages you type in Archie Mobile or a chat app, and on a teammate's phone.
From your phone
It works for messages from Archie Mobile, a teammate's phone, or a chat app.
Limits
  • It is what your agent is told. Nothing cuts a reply short.
  • Typed messages only. A press, a routine or a watch is answered as before, and so is a message typed at the computer.
  • A chat app counts as a phone, because Archie cannot tell where it is being read.