linphone and address books

[Rainer Dorsch]

Hello,

I am using linphone since quite some time and it works very reliable for me.
One feature I am missing is the import of existing address books (either from
a vcf file, a carddav server or similar). Read only is sufficient for me. I see
in settings, there is an advanced menu, which has an entry address book
sources. But then it seems I need a plugin for that? Can anybody tell if and
how that works?

Another minor issue I have is that an ongoing call in linphone does not
prevent KDE to go into suspend mode, if there is no user input.

Alternatively, are there in bookworm alternative SIP clients, which you are
recommending and integrate well with KDE Plasma?

Any hint or advice is welcome.

Many thanks
Rainer

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[Mario Marietto]

Does anyone know if on the market there is a phisycal phone (made with hardware components) which allows to place calls and to send sms only using the VOIP technology ? Would be an interesting product to buy and try in my opinion.

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Mario.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Mario Marietto (2023-06-02 10:27:29)

> Does anyone know if on the market there is a phisycal phone (made with
> hardware components) which allows to place calls and to send sms only using
> the VOIP technology ? Would be an interesting product to buy and try in my
> opinion.

Yes, so-called "SIP hardphones" exist. Try a web search for those
terms, or if you are lazy you can use this as a starting point:
https://www.asteriskguru.com/tutorials/asterisk_hardphone.html

An "hard" alternative is to use a so-called "SIP ATA" (Analogue Phone
Adapter) to connect a classic old POTS (Plain Old Telephny Standard)
phone with a SIP account.


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[Dan Ritter]

Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Mario Marietto (2023-06-02 10:27:29)
> > Does anyone know if on the market there is a phisycal phone (made with
> > hardware components) which allows to place calls and to send sms only using
> > the VOIP technology ? Would be an interesting product to buy and try in my
> > opinion.
>
> Yes, so-called "SIP hardphones" exist. Try a web search for those
> terms, or if you are lazy you can use this as a starting point:
> https://www.asteriskguru.com/tutorials/asterisk_hardphone.html
>
> An "hard" alternative is to use a so-called "SIP ATA" (Analogue Phone
> Adapter) to connect a classic old POTS (Plain Old Telephny Standard)
> phone with a SIP account.

Having used and deployed both of these in significant numbers, I can
state that SIP ATAs should be avoided unless absolutely necessary. All
the functionality that people expect is in VOIP phones, and it's hard
to access anything other than simple calling with the adapters.

Polycom 33[0,5] VOIP phones are well-built, easy to provision for use
with Asterisk, FreeSwitch and various VOIP companies, and relatively
cheap as used phones.

-dsr-

[Mario Marietto]

I forgot to specify that I don't like a telephone so much like I had 20 years ago. I mean,I would like to see a VOIP phone with the form factor of a smartphone. Sorry if I haven't been very clear.

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Mario.

[Tim Woodall]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2023, Mario Marietto wrote:

> I forgot to specify that I don't like a telephone so much like I had 20
> years ago. I mean,I would like to see a VOIP phone with the form factor of
> a smartphone. Sorry if I haven't been very clear.
>

I use linphone on android. But modern androids are super annoying and
you have to jump through hoops to stop it sleeping and disconnecting
wifi/mobile data and vpn.

But an older model phone on wifi with no sim would seem to do what you
want. I have an Alcatel 1 setup like this that works well and lasts for
about a day on battery with the sleepyness disabled.

I use connectbot on a more modern phone to disable sleep - but that
doesn't lock the screen which is super annoying - lock the screen and I
cannot receive viop calls.

It's lineage so theoretically I can fix but that's not in my forseeable
future!

[Dan Ritter]

Mario Marietto wrote:
> I forgot to specify that I don't like a telephone so much like I had 20
> years ago. I mean,I would like to see a VOIP phone with the form factor of
> a smartphone. Sorry if I haven't been very clear.

In the sense of having a wireless handset to carry around the
house or office? They exist. DECT is the usual standard; there
are DECT-SIP gateways. Yealink makes several of them.

In the sense of running a VOIP client on a smartphone? That
exists too, although the battery life tends to be terrible.

-dsr-

[Ulf Volmer]

Am Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 10:03:48AM +0200 schrieb Rainer Dorsch:

> I am using linphone since quite some time and it works very reliable for me.
> One feature I am missing is the import of existing address books (either from
> a vcf file, a carddav server or similar). Read only is sufficient for me. I see
> in settings, there is an advanced menu, which has an entry address book
> sources. But then it seems I need a plugin for that? Can anybody tell if and
> how that works?

If you have a recent linphone version (e.g the appimage from upstream),
you will find the address book in a sqlite database in
~/.local/share/linphone/friends.db.

I personally use khal go get my contacts from my nextcloud and a small
python script to store this into the sqlite database.

Best regards
Ulf

[Bram Diederik]

I got a project that has a side quest that can help you.

https://github.com/Bram-diederik/asterisk-homeassistant-tools

It got a system that downloads the nextcloud contacts to a internal db. (for quick lookup for asterisk)

and it got a publisher for ldap.

Linphone got an ldap plugin. (still need to get it to work but that could be me)

Op wo 14 jun 2023 om 23:25 schreef Ulf Volmer <u.vo...@u-v.de>: