Matrix Chat

Last modified by Aysegül Omus on 2023/08/23 00:56

Establishing a Matrix Chat

You can log in to Matrix with ITO, TUM email addresses or create an account with a different email address and use it to log in and chat with the people who have once logged in to Matrix.

There are two Matrix servers of ITO. The Matrix servers are available as web but also as client. It can be found as web interface under the following links:
  

 1 matrix.cit.tum.de (ITO- ID)
 1 matrix.tum.de (LRZ-TUM-ID)

You can log in any of them with the appropriate ID and password.

If you want to use your another email address you can create an account on this website and then login to Matrix.

And Here you can find installation for IOS, Android, Mac, Linux and Windows.

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Log in

Log in to the web interface with TUM login data

Webpage: https://matrix.tum.de

ID: LRZ-ID (without @mytum.de or @tum.de)

Password: LRZ/TUM Password

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Log in to the web interface with cit.tum login data

Webpage: https://matrix.cit.tum.de

ID: ITO-ID (without @cit.tum.de)

Password: cit.tum Password

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Create new chat room

If you want to create a new chat room, first click the +-Button next to Rooms in the program or on the web inferface and then enter the name of the chat room. You can also block users on other servers from joining the room or enable encryption. You can't change these settings later. 

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The chat room TestRoom is private, so it is not visible to others and participants can only join the room by invitation.

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Invite into the chat room

Requirement: The member which is been invited has registered once on the Matrix Server. 

Note: If you have only released the room for the cit.tum or TUM user, only people who are registered on the cit.tum or tum server can access this room.

If you want to invite new members to the room, click the button Invite to this room

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Enter followings in the opened window:

For ITO Accounts: e.g. @musterma:cit.tum.de

@ITO-ID:cit.tum.de

For TUM Accounts: e.g. @lr89rbg:tum.de

 @lrz-ID:tum.de

For other Accounts:  e.g. @musterma:matrix.org

 name, email address, username  @username:domain

and send the invitation to the e-mail address of the person to be invited. The invitation will appear in the matrix chat window and must be accepted.

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invite to the private chat

Requirement: The member which is been invited has registered once on the Matrix Server.

You can also privatly chat with other in Matrix. If you want to chat with a member privatly, click on the +-Button beside People in the program or on the web interface.

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Enter followings in the opened window:

For ITO Accounts: e.g. @musterma:cit.tum.de

@ITO-ID:cit.tum.de

For TUM Accounts: e.g. @lr89rbg:tum.de

 @lrz-ID:tum.de

For other Accounts:  e.g. @musterma:matrix.org

 name, email address, username  @username:homeserver

and send the invitation to the e-mail address of the person to be invited. invitepeople1.png

The invitation will appear in the element chat window and must be accepted.

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