From ba908409ed750f370b203637b697906bea2d62ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Iuri Matias <iuri.matias@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:23:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] rea-add connectToProvider

---
 src/index.ts | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 48a3eaf..992bb1e 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -65,6 +65,20 @@ class StatusJS {
     );
   }
 
+  public async connectToProvider(provider: any, privateKey: any) {
+    let web3: any = new Web3();
+    web3.setProvider(provider);
+
+    this.shh = web3.shh;
+    this.mailservers = new mailservers(web3);
+
+    await web3.shh.setMinPoW(constants.post.POW_TARGET);
+    _sig.set(
+      this,
+      privateKey ? await this.generateWhisperKeyFromWallet(privateKey) : await web3.shh.newKeyPair()
+    );
+  }
+
   public isConnected() {
     return this.shh.isListening();
   }