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[Tiago Herrmann <tiago.herrmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

we have been working on improving our messaging/telephony stack to
allow integration with the native apps via telepathy. That is the
goal.
Some of the work (at least for messaging) is already present on silo 25.
IIRC in order to support SIP properly in dialer-app we need to handle
audio streams in the telephony stack (which we don't need to do
currently for regular phone calls). We managed to do some experiments
in the past as a proof of concept and it seemed to work. There is
still work to be done, but we will eventually get there.

Thanks.

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:15 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 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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>>
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