Comments on: Taking a SIP of VoIP

By: alexis aspi

alexis aspi — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:39:23 +0000

wowwwww great……

thanks for this blog… nice one

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:11:52 +0000

Chris,
As you know for the past two weeks I have been trying to get ekiga working on my system. Just got it to work last night. Some pointers.

1) there is a mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list

2) On the list there were many people like yourself who said they had no problems compiling ekiga on an OpenSuse 11.1 system. As far as I could tell they were all gnome users. On my kde desktop it would not compile. Note I did an upgrade from 10.3 to 11.1. It would be interesting to see if anyone can compile on a kde desktop after doing a fresh install of 11.1

3) I eventually got over my problems by downloading the lastest version 3.0.1-1.22-i586 from repo-oss.
The previous versions did not allow me to select a V4L2 camera.

4) On setting up ekiga one is tempted to set up a ekiga test account. I did and it worked fine. As part of that process you set up a stun server stun.ekiga.net. Unfortunately nodephone will not work with it installed. You do NOT need a stun server for nodephone.

5) gconf-editor is your friend. You will need it to remove the stun server and to check/ammend other parameters.

6) I have two voip numbers, one goes to my ATA the other goes to my laptop. By default both listen to port 5060 for calls. In ekiga using gconf-editor I changed the listening port to 5065 and the port range to start at 5065. I did not have to make any changes in the router. YMMV in this case as you may have to do some port forwarding on older routers.

7) I ave used amsn and have been stuck with the pokey little box that msn restricts you to. I am currently running ekiga at 320×240, it allows you to go up 640×480. This can be changed by going into preferences–video–devices and changing the size.

Have fun
Brian

By: chris

chris — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:59:25 +0000

Thanks Glen and Matt,
Yesterday I purchased a Billion 7404VGP-M (the ones that Internode officially support) from the computer markets. It was a reasonable $188 compared to $299 from Internode. It seems to be working OK so far.. I’m sure I’ll blog about it shortly.
-c

By: Matt Bottrell

Matt Bottrell — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:53:18 +0000

Hey Chris,

Nice one.

I moved over onto VOIP/SIP just this year. If you’re looking for a great Linux based VOIP phone (not just an ATA) take a look at the Snom phones.

They are brilliant. Highly recommended.

By: Glen

Glen — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:00:20 +0000

G’day Chris,
+1 for Ekiga. Definitely “the pick of the crop” of softphones.
However, when you get around to using a “proper” ATA, you will find that even the least capable ATA with any decent pots telephone is decidedly better than the best softphone. If you have not got an ATA by mid/late November, then let us know – KG will be in Canberra by then and can take down a couple of (spare) ATAs for you to try. I notice that Nodephone hardware is seriously overpriced.
Cheers, Glen.

By: Yiu

Yiu — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:00:46 +0000

Hey… didn’t know that you had to go through some many steps for calling me!
I know you said it was easy, but for a non-computer expert like me, I won’t have any clue!! Thanks Chris.. and thanks for people who had helped him!!!