The important thing here is to use the same user name and password as you used in sip. A couple of seconds after you close the window you should see that your Ekiga is registered with your Asterisk. You can now either call yourself on extension or call your echo service on extension If the Ekiga client is to be run on the same host as the Asterisk server, the listening SIP port has to be modified to the same value as the "port" property in asterisk's sip.
Instructions on how to do it can be found in the manual. Note that Asterisk handles video in 'pass-thru' mode and does not do codec translation for video as contrasted to audio , so the codecs must be compatible end-to-end. This means that you only will be able to use video with friends that use SIP phones which use the H. For a list of such softphones, see Ekiga Interoperability. Bent , 10 November CET. Ekiga features automated registration with your service providers.
If you choose to use the Ekiga. If later you want to add another VoIP service account, you'll have the option for Ekiga to automatically register with it while creating the account tick the Enable Account box. A dialog will appear and allows you to enter several parameters:. Ekiga will do a best guess in determining the identity that will be used when calling out. Sometimes, you will need to force that identity. You can do this by specifying the identity in the User field.
For example: dsandras ekiga. To add a H. A dialog will appear and allow you to enter several parameters. The meaning of the parameters are similar to SIP account, see previous section. A dialog will appear and allow you to enter the connection parameters.
For this to work, Ekiga should have been built with XMPP support --enable-loudmouth , which by default it is disabled.
Ekiga will choose which account to use depending on the end of the SIP address if it is the same as one of the registrar you have in your account list to place the call. The default account is the one used when you type or dial a SIP address without the end of the SIP address what is on the right of , or the account used if you call a sip address which do not refer to any of your registrar in your account list.
It is your own address at this default account which will appear on the SIP client of your friend as the source of the call. You can change the default account simply by highlighting the account you want, then clicking the "Default" button on the right side.
The Add to local roster window will appear, with fields to supply information for the contact's name and address. Contacts can also be added from a contextual menu by right-clicking in the roster, and selecting New contact. If you do not precise the host part, e. This is sometimes useful, as shown in the following. Like a long distance company, your VoIP provider can change often, and you can have more than one. For instance, I currently use one company for US calls, and ekiga dialout for all other countries.
Furthermore, there may be other future global addressing schemes that could be used with multiple providers. For instance, at some point Skype will have to give in and at least allow gateways to SIP. Then the Skype address would be useful without a specific domain, in order to allow to chose among gateway providers.
To remove a contact from your Ekiga roster, first select the contact as visible in the roster. The contact is removed from your roster immediately. Contacts can also be removed from a contextual menu by right-clicking on the relevant contact in the roster. You can sort your contacts visible in the local roster into pre-defined groups, such as Friends or Work ; this allows for example to make visible only one of the groups e. Work when you are at work.
You can also create custom group names to sort your contacts into, for example First Level Tech Support. To change the group a contact belongs to, first right-click on the contact as visible in the local roster, then click on Edit from the contextual menu that appears and tick the group you wish the contact to be sorted into.
If you wish to add a custom group, enter your custom group name here, and click Add. Click OK to finish. Network neighbours is a special group in the roster, called Neighbours, which automatically discovers and shows all ekiga users from your LAN.
It is updated each time a users connects or disconnets from your LAN, or changes his status or message. Neighbours group is visible, at the bottom of the roster, only if there is at least one ekiga user in your LAN.
It is available only if ekiga has been built with support for it. This feature uses the zeroconf technology called sometimes Bonjour or avahi or rendezvous. It respectively loads the list of users from the LDAP directory and will store locally their addresses.
To your left there will be a list dialog showing the Servers you have added to the list as well as a list of local Address Books. The defaults are the Ekiga. In the left-hand pane there will be a list of local address books, as well as any online LDAP address books.
The default address books are the Ekiga. To search for a user in the local address book, simply click to highlight it in the left hand pane, then enter the user's name in the Search Filter field and click the Find button.
You can also place a cell phone call to users in the local address book, if the user information was originally entered using Novell Evolution.
The New contact window will appear and you may now enter the user's name and VoIP address, as well as any other settings. If you are running Novell Evolution or KAddressBook, you'll notice the contact has been updated in each respective application's Personal address book as well.
Note that you can only add contacts to local address books in Ekiga: adding contacts to LDAP address books from within Ekiga is not supported. The contact can also be removed by right-clicking on the contact, then selecting Remove from the contextual menu that appears. Additionally, if you remove the contact from either the Novell Evolution or KDEAddressBook applications, then this will also remove the contact from Ekiga's local address book.
Note that you can only remove contacts from local address books in Ekiga: removing contacts from LDAP address books from within Ekiga is not supported. Ekiga is able to connect to online address books, allowing you to search for contacts in a remote directory. The most common online address book type is the LDAP directory.
Ekiga is able to search an LDAP directory and use a specific attribute as a calling address i. For example, you could connect to a an LDAP directory provided from within your own company, and use a specific attribute containing the local extensions of all your colleagues.
A limited number of results corresponding to your search are returned. You can also right-click on the address book you wish to remove, and select Remove addressbook from the contextual menu that appears.
The Ekiga. You can use the Search Filter field to search for contact names and call addresses, and a limited number of results corresponding to your search are returned. You can easily add a contact to your local roster from the Ekiga. You can also right-click on the contact, and select Add to local roster from the contextual menu that appears.
You can set a presence status message in Ekiga that advertises your presence to your contacts. Ekiga features three preset status messages, and within each one of these presets, custom messages can be created. Simply click on the drop-down status message list to select a preset status. Note that you may be called in any of these statuses; they are used simply to inform the other users about your wish. To define a custom message, click on the drop-down status message list in the main Ekiga window, and select " Custom message In the pop-up window that appears, enter your custom message.
To delete a custom message, click on the drop-down status message list in the main Ekiga window, select Clear , and select the custom message you wish to delete. When a call arrives, Ekiga rings and displays a notification window in the systray allowing you to accept or reject the call.
If notifications are not available in your system which is the case for Windows systems , then the call window is shown instead allowing you to accept or reject the call. Some systems have broken notifications, for example they do not show the whole text in case of long text, or they inform that they support notifications but they do not.
In this case, when a call arrives, you have to manually open the call window and accept or reject the call from there. Ekiga supports several actions which can be performed when in a call. These actions enable you to control active sessions. If you want to call other users and to be callable, you usually need a SIP address. The SIP address can be used by other users to call you. Similarly, you can use the SIP address of your friends and family to call them.
You can for example use sip:dsandras ekiga. It is of course possible to call users who are using another provider than ekiga. If you know the URI address of the party that you wish to call, you may enter that URI into the sip: input box at the top of the screen and press the Connect button; eg: sip:foo ekiga. With the default setup, you can simply type sip:foo to call user foo ekiga. Tip Ekiga also supports H. You can call using the IP address of your partner like this:. Ekiga allows you to call real phones.
You simply have to register an account to a Internet Telephony Service Provider. You do not need any specific hardware to be able to do PC-to-Phone calls: a simple soundcard is enough. Using a headset to avoid echo problems is however highly recommended. Those providers will allow calling real phones from your computer using Ekiga at interesting rates. We are recommending you to use the default Ekiga provider. The default provider is Diamondcard Worldwide Communication Service , which offers these rates.
When signing up for a DiamondCard account, a small amount of the subscription is given back to the Ekiga project. If you want to create such an account and use it to call your friends and family using regular phones at interesting rates, go in the Edit menu, and select Configuration Assistant menu item.
Simply enter them in the dialog, resume the Configuration Assistant until the last step, press Apply, and you are ready to call regular phones using Ekiga. To dial a number, simply add "00" followed by the country code, and by your number. For example, sip to call number in Belgium. If Ekiga. See List of PC to phone providers for a list of alternative providers. To allow this, you can simply login to your PC-To-Phone account using the Tools menu as described above, and buy a phone number in the country of your choice.
Ekiga will ring when people will call that phone number. You can actually use any H. However we recommend using the integrated provider. This effectively pauses video and audio transmission. Video and audio transmission will then resume. Audio will cease to be sent, but video transmission will continue. Video will cease to be sent, but audio transmission will continue.
Starting with version 4. Note that for security reasons Ekiga does not yet support call auto-answering when a specific SIP tag appears in the incoming packet. Call Forwarding can be configured through the preferences window. Notice that you need to specify an URI where to forward calls in the preferences to be able to activate that option.
You will now see the appropriate section. It contains three checkboxes for the three cases described above. This is similar to a secretary who receives a call, and after some discussion transfers the call to the right person in the organisation. Note that Ekiga does not support to ask permission of the target address to accept the call transfer. The Call history window stores information date, duration, URI, Remote user about all outgoing and incoming calls.
They are divided into three groups "Received calls", "Placed calls" and "Unanswered calls". Received calls contains all incoming calls which were accepted by Ekiga. General performance could also be an issue, especially when most efficient codecs were closed source. Generally speaking, the technology was not ready yet but Ekiga was already kicking!
Nowadays, everyone knows about voice over IP and videoconferencing. However, proprietary programs using closed communication protocols are dominating the market. Few people know that alternatives exist, and even less people know that using standard tools allows doing voice over IP, videoconferencing but also IP Telephony.
With the upcoming 5. Most of the code has been reorganized, some parts have been completely rewritten. Things are getting simplified to attract new contributors I am now 15 years older than when I started coding on Ekiga. We would also like to upgrade Ekiga. First, there are a few shortcomings that must be fixed with the platform: users should be able to delete their SIP accounts, to modify their e-mail and password preferences, passwords should not be sent in cleartext ouch! All of this should come with a brand new modern look for all websites related to Ekiga and Ekiga.
On the contrary of many projects, Ekiga has always been developed during my spare time with a few contributors working in their spare time too. Spare time is what it is: spare time Sometimes you have much spare time, sometimes you don't have any spare time for a few weeks.
That means that progress on the project is slow, especially when you want to be ambitious. Our team is relatively small and there are many areas where we are not competent: website design is one of them.
The most important change is fixing ALL known crashes and freezes, especially the long-standing freeze on quit on Windows. Add to this making H. There is also a security fix. The next release will be 4. After 4. Three years after the 3. The code has already been frozen and we are working on the last details for the best user experience ever! The screenshots page has already been updated with the new official screenshots of the application.
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