Re: [Ekiga-list] Ringing on another sound device

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi,

Le samedi 23 février 2008 à 10:22 -0700, David Mohr a écrit :
> Hi,
> I currently use a separate sound device for talking over ekiga so that
> I can keep my headphones permanently plugged in. Since ptlib doesn't
> understand asoundrc devices, it would actually require hacking both in
> ekiga and ptlib to support ringing on a different alsa device.

Ekiga supports ringing on a different device than the one being used for
calls.

> An easier solution for me was to write a little python dbus program,
> which implements what I needed in a separate program. You can grab it
> at http://da.mcbf.net/wiki/EkigaRinger .

Thanks for sharing this !

> Damien,
> I noticed that doc/using_dbus.html doesn't have a python example yet.
> My program is 148 lines long, if you don't think that that's too much
> for the document, I think it would work well as an example analog to
> the perl one.
> 

Forwarding to Julien who wrote the initial dbus code.
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