Empathy is the default IM and VoIP program in Ubuntu Linux 10.10 (Maverick).
You can access it from the Envelope icon in your top-right hand Notification Area.
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| Empathy is hidden in the Envelope icon. |
For a long time now, I cannot seem to get it to work with my Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) provider so that people can reach me on my Linux desktop via my iNum.
However, I toyed with getting 3CXphone and CSipSimple on Android to work with the abovementioned SIP service and learnt a thing or two about SIP setups.
Today, I managed to get Empathy to work!
This is what you must do in 4 simple steps:
- Set your username to 1777xxxxxxx@callcentric.com;
- Open up the "Advanced" options;
- REMOVE "Discover STUN server"; and
- Set your Miscellaneous Options/Authentication username to 1777xxxxxxx
That should work!
Here is a screenshot of my setup for your reference.
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| Empathy with SIP setup |
Hi Rykel, thanks for the tip.
ReplyDeleteThat option 'Discover the STUN server automatically' was preventing me from succeeding. As soon as I disabled that, I was able to connect and talk.
empathy is still not very nice and user-friendly when it comes to making sip calls (have to enter the phone everytime, no dial-pad, no key-tone for patching through to various departments when they want me to click a number button or hash button)
but at least it is improving to the point where it is basically useable!
Thank you so much! I had tried many combinations of options, servers, ports, et cetera but after looking at your screenshot, I got it working in ten seconds.
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