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[Felipe De La Puente <fdelapuente@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm also looking for a native integration of any communication protocol,
especially SIP. I did a bit of investigation and experiments when I moved
to ubuntu-touch. SIP native integration is actually pretty close to be
there.

During my experiments I installed telepathy-sofiasip (rakia) in order to
setup my SIP account and have it integrated to the telephony-service, then
added the SIP protocol to the whitelist in telephony-service and I was able
to receive the incoming call notification/ring alerts.

A similar approach was used for my google-talk account in order to receive
text messages with similar success (the messages are received without
issues).

At this point I realized it was possible but didn't dedicate time to make
it a complete solution (be able to send messages and make calls + a clean
UI integration). I need to try it again and move forward but haven't had
time yet.

My ideal solution is to have user customizable prioritized multi-protocol
support for both calls and messages. For that I would like to use the
messaging core app (messaging), the dialer core app (for calls) and the
contacts core app for having unique contacts with prioritized
multi-protocol credentials.

+1 for integration instead of having multiple apps for messaging/calling.

Best Regards,
Felipe.

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Felipe De La Puente <fdelapuente@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm also looking for a native integration of any communication protocol,
> especially SIP. I did a bit of investigation and experiments when I moved
> to ubuntu-touch. SIP native integration is actually pretty close to be
> there.
>
> During my experiments I installed telepathy-sofiasip (rakia) in order to
> setup my SIP account and have it integrated to the telephony-service, then
> added the SIP protocol to the whitelist in telephony-service and I was able
> to receive the incoming call notification/ring alerts.
>
> A similar approach was used for my google-talk account in order to receive
> text messages with similar success (the messages are received without
> issues).
>
> At this point I realized it was possible but didn't dedicate time to make
> it a complete solution (be able to send messages and make calls + a clean
> UI integration). I need to try it again and move forward but haven't had
> time yet.
>
> My ideal solution is to have user customizable prioritized multi-protocol
> support for both calls and messages. For that I would like to use the
> messaging core app (messaging), the dialer core app (for calls) and the
> contacts core app for having unique contacts with prioritized
> multi-protocol credentials.
>
> +1 for integration instead of having multiple apps for messaging/calling.
>
> Best Regards,
> Felipe.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Peter Bittner <peter.bittner@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> I've been looking for a decent, working SIP softphone for Ubuntu in
>> the last 24 hours or more.
>>
>> During my research I figured that Liblinphone [1] is actually a
>> library that could easily be integrated into a phone core app for
>> VoIP/SIP phone calls. Some other user has asked for this before on
>> AskUbuntu [2] in 2013, specifically asking for an integrated solution,
>> not a separate app (like "Linphone" or "Empathy" for Ubuntu Touch).
>>
>> [1] http://www.linphone.org/technical-corner/liblinphone/overview
>> [2] http://askubuntu.com/questions/262802/sip-client-in-ubuntu-touch
>>
>> From a user interface perspective this would make a lot of sense. At
>> the moment we have a nicely integrated dual-SIM solution, so why not
>> allow adding SIP providers (and "pretend" they were additional SIM
>> cards)? This could be awesome.
>>
>> Technically, this should not be too difficult. One area requiring
>> examination would probably be the codecs, because some of the popular
>> ones are covered by patents and licenses incompatible with Debian
>> licensing [3]. For carriers this would probably be less of nice
>> feature. (But who cares about carriers? Really, as a user I'd rather
>> have a sensible choice for doing affordable phone calls, and pay a
>> decent fee for my data plan. Long live the freedom. Nevermind.)
>>
>> [3] https://www.linphone.org/technical-corner/linphone/downloads
>> (section "Codec plugins")
>>
>> What does Canonical think about this idea?
>>
>> Peter
>>
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