linphone dtmf tones

[lsmi...@hare.demon.co.uk]

I have at last started to try and get away from Skype by purchasing a
VOIP account to work with linphone. I'd prefer to work on the command
line with linphonecsh and have succeeded with simple inbound/outbound
calls. I have a POTS phone number to go with this. I have some
questions remaining though:

* I frequently need to dial in to conference calls. These require a
PIN string entered using DTMF tones entered on a phone keypad. I
have only been able to enter these one at a time using "linphonecsh
generic 1" etc. Entering "generic 123" ignores everything after the
"1", and entering the digits singly takes too long and the
conference login times me out. How do I send a string of DTMF digits
at the command line.

* Calls to a POTS number come up number withheld, but I want to send
my caller id. Is this a feature of VOIP or is there some setting I
can change? Likewise incoming calls don't have a caller id.

* My VOIP userid is 1238050100 and my server is
sip.tekara.co.uk. Can someone place a SIP to SIP call to me as
12380...@sip.tekara.co.uk. Can they do so from any gateway, and
at no cost?

Thanks for any help and other SIP tips.




--
Les Smithson

[B. Henry]

Do not check the option to send the tones in sip messges or what ever it's called in the gui. In your linphonerc it should
show
use_info=0
With things configured this way I can press 123, and hear three tones. Not blazing fast, but less than a second apart,
maybe a half second between, will test actual tim later.
It should not be that slow to press a number and enter and another, but it is a pain, but again, I can enter strings of
numbers, using the linphonec (commandline interface), and the qwerty numbers, no problem.
As you have probably noticed, to scroll through your history, cursoring off is best in speakup.
I made a little script to clean up the history so it does not grow too large, nor duplicate anything more than once. I
leave my first 12 items at the top of the file alone to always have quick access to answer, quit, termiinate, and a couple
longer commands, like to change playbackgain to help with some low volume calls.
I'll try and call you tomorrow to test things.
Regards,
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B.H.

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[lsmi...@hare.demon.co.uk]

Hi:

I have use_info=0 in ~/.linphonerc, but still linphonecsh sends can
only send tones one at a time. Note I'm using linphonecsh - the non
blocking cli, not linphonec, which is the interactive cli I think what
you are referring to.

--
Les Smithson

[B. Henry]

So sorry, I must have misheard the word.
In the daemon using linphonish way of working with linphone I do not know of a way to do what you want.
If the conference numbers you want to use work with the same code perhaps it could be scripted to run command after
command till the number is entered, or even to take stdin or a file so that any number sequence can be used.
I honestly have not gotten around to doing anything with linphonecsh yet as the need just has not arrisen, but will be
checking it out.
There's a lot that could, and should be added as far as improving linphone's front ends.
Not having any kind of trimming or cleanup built in to the use of history with the interactive cli interface is just the
start.
There should be a built in way to alias, or rename the basic commands also. Seriously, typing terminate just to hang up a
call?There are probably quite a few functions that are not documented officially as well, but not sure about this. I am
sure that more official documentation should be included.
There should be keyboard shortcuts for the GUI as well, but all in all I really like linphone, and so far have put off
trying to iinstall pulse while still using alsa only for most apps on arch.
I do not remember, can you chat with the linphonecsh?
BTW, just got an email from skype telling me that older skype versions will not be supported. Should have received that
like a month and a bit ago...lol.
Regards,
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B.H.

[lsmi...@hare.demon.co.uk]

I had the same impression. linphonec and linphonecsh seem a bit cheesy
to me. I do like what SIP and VOIP can do though.

There seem to be plenty of SIP SDK around. I feel the urge to write
something better. No time until next year though.

[B. Henry]

Yes, it seems that most of the SIP clients I've tried, or heard enough about to make a semi informed opinion possible have
some issues, or less than well implemented features, and lack some functionality that one would think should be more
common.
I guess on one hand skype has been so doninant that some of the energy that otherwise might have gone in to SIP clients
has gone in to other projects.
I tried the ex-gnome-meeting, ekiga client.
Their default network is a mess, and thus either using the client to connect to other nets or connecting to ekiga.net with
other software has issues to say the least.
Some controls did not work, or at least not reliably for me, and far too many required flat review.
They did have a better phone book compared to linpphone's friend list functionality. I don't remember what else they had
I liked right now, but there were one or two more strong feature implementations in my opinion.
The equivalent of .linphonerc was a nightmare for the average person, with each entry requireing a opening schema line and
a closing line. Not quick to browse with out hitting it with sed, grep or some such.
i tried to install a couple others from arch user repo, but they sent me to bad urls, or had dep issues that could not be
satisfied easily if at all.
I think linphone is probably one of the best options around, especially as one can have multiple interfaces for it
There's one called cfl-softphone, or something similar that is supposed to have good accessibility and work well, but GUI
only as most are.
I haven't even really checked the linphone tray icon as I've ;mostly run the cli interface, and run the GUI from fluxbox
where there's no accessible systray, panel or what ever you want to call it.
Has anyone found any interesting SIP software for Ubuntu or Debian based distros that has good accessibility besides
linphone?
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B.H.