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
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_azul ekiga net
sip: 473936 sip diamondcard us
sip: 0889451725 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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