linphone newby questions

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi Janina,
Thanks for the reply.
I will definitely make use of the offer to test the call once I have 
gotten things sorted out on my side.
At work, we have a quite elaborate firewall setup, which I think is 
confusing linphonec.
At home, I currently have a wifi range extender which is acting up.
I also tried the linphone on Android, but struggled with that. There I got 
further with a client called csipsimple.

I will email you once I have all my ducks in a row.
Kind regards, Willem


On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Hi, Willem:
>
> Willem van der Walt writes:
>> Good day,
>> Now that I feel the Internet speed here in South Africa is such that one can
>> start looking at voip, I have installed linphone.
>
> That's a good choice.
>
>> I created an account at linphone.org which was confirmed by email.
>
> That will help. For some reason I've never figured out, SIP works better
> if you're registered somewhere. So, just go ahead an register whenever
> you launch this SIP client.
>
>> I do not seem to have the sipomatic program for testing my setup, and a
>> quick google search give e the idea that it is no longer part of linphone.
>> So, here are a few, some of them dumm, questions.
>> 1.  How can I verify my setup is correctly configured without sipomatic?
>
>
> I've never used that app, and never even heard of it, actually.
> Meanwhile, I've used linphone for years and years.
>
>> 2.  I saw on the linphone.org site that there are over 300000 users, but is
>> there a way to look for people in that list?
>
> Not really.
>
>> I.E. If I want to know if any one of you is on linphone, is the only way for
>> me to find that out to email you first?
>
> Well, you'll see my SIP address in my signature block. Please feel free
> to call me and test your setup out.
>
> PS: In case you missed it, you may prefer using the console SIP client
> with Speakup (or brltty) instead of the rather clumsy graphical client
> with Orca. I say the graphical client is clumsy because you have to
> navigate around a 12-key keypad to actuate dtmf. That's much easier in
> the console, for instance:
>
> To launch the console app:
> linphonec
>
> To see the various commands:
> help
>
> Example of a help command you should look at before calling:
> help soundcard
>
> Hopefully, you're going to use something like a USB headset, rather than
> trying to rely on your case microphone and speakers. The above command
> will show you how to set that.
>
> Configuration file is at:
> $HOME/.linphonerc
>
> hth
>
> Janina
>
>> TIA, Willem
>>
>>
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