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_a...@ekiga.net
sip: 473...@sip.diamondcard.us
sip: 0889451...@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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