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Amethyst for a child's Nostr account. It stays locked until it finds the family's TEPP plans, then follows them. Every act is checked by the engine first, and what the plans don't allow is refused. What comes in from people and relays the plans don't let in is kept off the screen.
TEPPethyst is a test release, for the Tuin-BETA test. It is Amethyst 1.21.0 with Guardian Alpha's TEPP engine built in, for a child's Nostr account whose parents use Tuin-BETA. It will change, and it has rough edges. Adults should use regular Amethyst.
What it does. It stays locked until it finds the child's TEPP plans: the association Tuin-BETA writes for the child and the guardians' plans. Then it opens as Amethyst and follows them. Every act the child takes is checked by the engine first, and what the plans don't allow is refused, with the reason. What comes in from people and relays the plans don't let in is kept off the screen. Quiet hours set in a plan lock posting and private messages while they last.
Home. Home opens on My garden, the posts of the people and places the plans let in right now. Next to it is a feed for each group, place and list in the plans, and one for each garden a parent opens a gate to (one Tuin suggests, or a friend's family), each name giving its hours as the app reads them from the plans. The plans choose what is fetched, and the engine decides what is shown.
Logging in. On the child's phone, log in with Tuin-BETA's signer (NIP-55, offered on the login screen), or paste the bunker address Tuin-BETA shows (NIP-46). The child's key can also be pasted in, but Tuin-BETA's signer is the way the test is meant to run: then the signer checks every request too.
Where it looks. It starts from Tuin's household relays (relay.primal.net, relay.nostr.net, relay.damus.io), then the child's own relay list, which Tuin-BETA publishes; it writes where that list says. The lock screen lets you add a relay.
What it does not do
- It governs this app alone. The child can install another Nostr app; only an app that supports TEPP follows the plans in what it shows. Tuin-BETA's signer refuses what the plans don't allow in any app that signs through it.
- It is one account at a time, and a key logged in without plans stays locked.
- It doesn't hide from the relays it asks who the plans let in: Home asks Tuin's household relays, and the relays those people list for their own posts, for their posts by name, so those relays can learn who they are and when their hours open.
- It has no wallet, browser or Marmot groups, and its Home shows only the garden's feeds.
- It is a test build: not every one of Amethyst's screens has been checked against the plans.
It has no Google Play services. It needs Android 12 or later on a 64-bit ARM phone. It installs beside Amethyst, under its own name.
Based on Amethyst by Vitor Pamplona and contributors (MIT licence). Not made or endorsed by them.
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Camera and microphone access have no shown use.
Permissions
Nearby devicesCameraNotificationsFilesMicrophoneAlways running What they allowShow less
- Nearby devices BLUETOOTH_CONNECT Find and connect to devices around you
- Camera CAMERA Take photos and record video Has no shown use.
- Notifications POST_NOTIFICATIONS Send you notifications
- Files READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE Read files on this phone
- Microphone RECORD_AUDIO Record audio Has no shown use.
- Always running REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS Keep running in the background without limits
Uses the camera and microphone. Data is sent to Nostr relays.
Release notes
Fixes from the first test on public relays. Private messages: New message now sends to whoever you name under To; it used to send nothing when a key was pasted there. When a message can't go, the app says why and keeps your words. Gardens a parent opens through a gate, one of Tuin's suggested gardens or a friend's family, now reach the child's app: their people join My garden, and each gate gets a feed of its own. The app writes to the child's own relay list as Tuin publishes it, and starts from relay.primal.net, relay.nostr.net and relay.damus.io (offchain.pub is gone). It no longer publishes a Marmot key package and doesn't offer Marmot groups. A child's app now looks like one: no Wallet or Browser tabs, Home offers only the garden's feeds, Start a conversation offers private messages only, the login screen says TEPPethyst, and there are no donation, push-setup or inbox-relay prompts. A closed feed says so, with its hours, instead of "Feed is empty". A refusal names the person, and says when it opens again only where the engine confirms that time. It also asks the signer about something it can't open once per check of the plans, not every minute. In the first field test My garden once stayed empty after quiet hours ended, until a restart; it hasn't happened again in testing or in the second field test, and the app now records what relays answer, should it return.
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