linphone newby questions

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Willem:

I will be delighted to help you as best I can, but you should be aware
that I will be traveling next week and am unlikely to be very available
as this is a business trip.

I'll be back to my usual home schedule on the 25th. I look forward to
chatting with you linphone to linphone!

Janina

Willem van der Walt writes:
> 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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Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.443.300.2200
			sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net
		Email:	janina at rednote.net

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa