Hi Bret
Thanks for your input. Someone else has referred me to the Jitsi FAQ
which says that 2" ekiga.net SIP servers are configured in a way that
prevent Jitsi to register with the service".It appears, therefor that I
will have to find an alternative to Jitsi or use (as suggested by the
Jitsi FAQ) iptel.org or ippi.com.
Once again, many thanks for your interest and help.
Regards
Ericc Jackson
Villar del Arzobispo
Spain
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On 21/02/2013 09:29, Bret Busby wrote:
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, el_gallo_azul wrote:
1. I received notification of your call (in my case, both my landline
phone and my smart mobile phone ring), and answered using the landline.
2. I could not hear anything on the other end.
3. I checked the phone handset and it said 'Talking' which means that
as far as the phone is concerned, the call is still connected.
4. I worked out later that I had two instances of my ekiga.net
account registered at the time you called. One was in the VoIP
settings of my modem, and the other was the CSipSimple app on my
smartphone.
5. I Eventually hung up the landline phone, and went and had a look
at the smartphone. The app CSipSimple reported a missed call, and had
a record of your call because it said 'Bret Busby'.
6. I was having a look at the record of the call, to try and work out
what had happened. During this process, I fouled things up. It looks
like I selected all call history, and then deleted them. So
unfortunately, I am not able to comment on the details of the record
of your call reported from CSipSimple.
Anyway, if you could advise what, if anything, shows in your event
history, for that attempt, it would be good.
No can do.
7. I would be interested to see if I need to change my SIP
configuration or not, which means receiving a few calls in a row to
test my landline phone and my smartphone.
Greg Flint
PO Box 642 Parap NT 0804 Australia
Phone +61 (0)8 8945 1725
Mobile +61 (0)428 279 021
Australian Central Standard Time (CST) = GMT + 9.5
sip: el_gallo_a...@ekiga.net
sip: 473...@sip.diamondcard.us
sip: 0889451...@sip.internode.on.net
Hello.
A couple of things occurred to me about this, which I posted to the
Linphone list (although, subsequent messages posted to that list, by
other people, appear to indicate a lack of technical support for
Linphone, by the developers).
The first, is that, when I called you, I was using the default
settings for each of my applicable devices. In Ekiga, I had to change
the device setting for the microphone, and I changed it to what I had
set up for Skype. In Linphone, I was unable to find provision of an
Echo Test Call facility, thjat both Ekiga and Skype provide, so that,
in Ekiga and Skype, a user can check the functionality of the devices
and their settings, and, find whether what the user has set up,
actually works.
As there appears to be no provision of that, in Linphone, I have no
way of testing and adjusting my device settings, to ensure that the
devices are properly set up.
The second thing, is that when run ning each softphone software
application for the first time, Skype and Ekiga, from memory, prompt
for the setting up of a SIP account, so as to enable the user to make
calls across the Internet. Linphone does not do this, and, instead,
sets up a default SIP address, using the format
<username>@<users_IP_address>, and, the IP address can, as is shown in
my case, the IP address within the LAN, which I do not want to be
published on the Internet.
I subsequently found that that default SIP address supposedly allows
for cals within, and, only within, a LAN, and that, to call across the
Internet, a SIP accopunt that needs to be otherwise set up, is required.
On the Linphone web site home page, on the left side, is a menu, with
one option being free SIP account.
In clicking that, I was led through the procedure for setting up a SIP
account hosted by Linphone.
It was not made clear that this is required, to make calls across the
Internet.
And, it is not intuiotive, especially when Linphone automatically
creates a default SIP address, which, would appear to be all that is
required for making calls across the Internet.
The "Free SIP account" option in the menu on the Linphone web page,
appears to be, without proceeding further with that option, by
selecting the button, no more than information about the provision of
that default SIP address.
So, I believe that Linphone has critical deficiencies in its interface
and functionality.
Also, I note that, in two attempts to send Chat messages to Greg
(Linphone to Ekiga), on each occasion, clicking on the <Send> button,
caused Linphone to crash (and the messages to be lost and not sent).
Another curious thing; when I contacted Greg from Linphone (me using
Linphone to call Greg at his Ekiga SIP address), whilst the call
showed within Linphone, to have been successful, neither he nor I
could hear each other for the duration of each call attempt (after the
ringing stopped, there was silence, and, after 30s of silence, I
terminated each call).
But, at the end of each of those unsuccesful calls, Greg could call me
(Ekiga account to Linphone account), successfully, and we could
successfully sustain a conversation, in each call thus made from Greg
to me.
So, calling Linphone to Ekiga, does not work, and,
calling Ekiga to Linphone, does work, apparently.
As I said to Greg, in one (or more) of the conversations, whilst the
concept of Linphone (especially, that it supposedly covers the
operating system platforms that it is supposed to cover, including MS
Windows, Linux, and, Apple Mac OSX), appears to be good, the Linphone
people have alot more work to do, to make it usable, and, at present,
other than using it for testing communications with other softphone
provision, such as testing for calling between Linphone and Ekiga, I
would not bother with it again, until it is shown to be working properly.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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