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[Peter Bittner <peter.bittner@xxxxxxx>]

I've taken the time to create a bug report for a generic concept of
unified communication. If we had an API that allowed to just plug in
external services into the Ubuntu Touch platform then adding VoIP
telephony and proprietary protocols (Skype, Viber, WhatsApp,Slack,
etc.) would just be plugins!

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/qtubuntu/+bug/1627747 ("generic API for
communication and data exchange")
(As usual, please cast your vote in the bug ("Affects me too!") if you
want this idea become true!)

Peter


2016-09-12 17:53 GMT+02:00 Peter Bittner:
> Hi folks, everyone interested in VoIP and SIP on Ubuntu Touch,
>
> this is just an update, or a reminder, for everyone who wants to see VoIP,
> SIP and proprietary protocols (Skype, Viber, WhatsApp, etc.) fully
> integrated in Ubuntu Touch.
>
> If you care about this, please cast your vote at bug #1533104 (VOIP) to make
> our voices heard:
> - https://bugs.launchpad.net/dialer-app/+bug/1533104
>
> Cheers, Peter
>
>
> 2015-10-26 22:02 GMT+01:00 Felipe De La Puente:
>>
>> Hi Tiago,
>>
>> That's actually very good news! It has been a while since I did my
>> experiments, and I'm glad the system is going in this direction.
>>
>> The point you mention about integrating audio streaming into the telephony
>> stack is probably what the reason of my silent (after answering) incoming
>> SIP calls. I didn't dedicate time to investigate the root cause but it makes
>> sense.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Felipe.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Tiago Herrmann wrote:
>>>
>>> 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 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.