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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Sideband</span></h1>
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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p class="mw-empty-elt"></p><aside class="portable-infobox noexcerpt searchaux pi-background pi-theme-default pi-layout-default pi-type-hardware"><h2 class="pi-item pi-item-spacing pi-title" data-source="name">Sideband</h2><figure class="pi-item pi-media pi-image" data-source="image">
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<h3 class="pi-data-label pi-secondary-font">Type</h3>
<div class="pi-data-value pi-font"><a href="Category%3ALXMF_clients" title="Category:LXMF clients">LXMF client</a></div>
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<h3 class="pi-data-label pi-secondary-font">Developer</h3>
<div class="pi-data-value pi-font">Mark Qvist</div>
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<h3 class="pi-data-label pi-secondary-font">License</h3>
<div class="pi-data-value pi-font"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">CC BY-NC-SA 4.</a></div>
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<div class="pi-data-value pi-font">Android, Linux, macOS</div>
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<h3 class="pi-data-label pi-secondary-font">Since</h3>
<div class="pi-data-value pi-font">2022-04-07</div>
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<h3 class="pi-data-label pi-secondary-font">Website</h3>
<div class="pi-data-value pi-font"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://unsigned.io/sideband/">unsigned.io</a></div>
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<h3 class="pi-data-label pi-secondary-font">Repository</h3>
<div class="pi-data-value pi-font"><span class="mirror link"><span class="web"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/markqvist/sideband">GitHub</a></span><span class="nomadnet">[nomadnetwork://a8d24177d946de4f1f0a0fe1af9a1338:/page/repo.mu`g=reticulum|r=sideband Aleph Git]</span></span></div>
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<p class="mw-empty-elt"></p><p><b>Sideband</b> is an extensible <a href="LXMF" title="LXMF">LXMF</a> and <a href="LXST" title="LXST">LXST</a> app by Mark Qvist for Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows. It provides peer-to-peer messaging, voice calls, file transfers, paper messages, telemetry, location sharing, monitoring and remote control. It can also use Android devices as impromptu <a href="Transport_node" title="Transport node">transport nodes</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plugin_system">Plugin system</h2></div>
<p>Sideband has a plugin system that allows you to create <i>Telemetry</i>, <i>Command</i> and <i>Service</i> plugins.
</p><p>For more information see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://unsigned.io/sideband/#:~:text=Creating%20Plugins">Creating Plugins</a> on the official website.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://unsigned.io/sideband/">Official website</a></li>
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