Installation

What TechnoVision WhatsApp Core requires, how to install it, and how to check the install worked.

• Module: technovision_whatsapp_core
• Odoo: 18.0, Community or Enterprise
• Depends on: base, mail
• Python: requests, only when the Meta provider actually sends. A database using the simulated provider needs nothing extra.

Install

• Copy the module into your addons path.

   cp -r technovision_whatsapp_core /opt/odoo/custom/

• Restart Odoo.

   sudo systemctl restart odoo

• Apps -> Update Apps List, search for TechnoVision WhatsApp Core, and install it.

Check the install worked

• A WhatsApp app appears in the app menu. If it does not, you are not in the WhatsApp User group - the administrator who installs the module is put in WhatsApp Manager automatically, so this only happens for other users.
• WhatsApp -> Configuration -> Accounts exists and is empty.
• Settings -> Technical -> Scheduled Actions contains WhatsApp: send queued messages, active, every 5 minutes.

First message, without a WhatsApp account

• WhatsApp -> Configuration -> Accounts -> New. Name it, leave the provider as Simulated, save.
• WhatsApp -> Send a message. Pick a contact with a mobile number, type something, send.
• WhatsApp -> Messages. The message is there, marked Sent, with its full text.

Nothing was sent. That is the point: the channel works and you can see what it would do before any credential exists.

Upgrading

Standard Odoo upgrade. The message log is never rewritten by an upgrade.