How to receive MIDI messages to a cli app

[Vivichrist]

So I need to know what I have to do to get MIDI messages into my music app that I'm working on. I developed a cli synth app on Manjaro using SDL3 and Jack. Jack I used to connect to MIDI aka 'MIDI-Bridge' or MIDI Through and an external program to produce MIDI messages sent to MIDI Through. I am currently trying to do the same on the actual device I wish to use which is the OrangePi 4 LTS I have spare with just bare bones Armbian Server, no desktop. I have audio working through Pipewire. I am used to Jack just being available because Pipewire intercepts and handles the calls behind the scenes. I noticed that on Armbian I think I have to use the 'pw-jack' program or jack-play goes into an eternal and uninterruptible error loop (I have to kill it through another terminal). Note: I am developing this program in Zig. Am I doing all of this the wrong way? Is there some system process I have to start? Or something I haven't installed?