[HacktionLab] Open Source / federated VOIP?

[helen varley jamieson]

jit.si is very simple to use & browser-based. i've also had some
experience with freeswitch but i didn't set it up & i think that was
complicated; it functioned well for a time & then it broke somehow.

h : )

On 25/12/14 3:05 23AM, U wrote:
> Also interested in this. Have tried RedPhone (android) which is okay,
> but calls drop a lot and the quality isn't great. TextSecure, the
> companion encrypted chat app is pretty good.
>
> Was looking at testing Jitsi next for VoIP.
>
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 12:47 AM, <nmd at riseup.net
> <mailto:nmd at riseup.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>     I was just wondering what other list members thoughts were on the current 
>     state of open source Voice over IP software?
>
>     I've tried the range of user end software that are available for this on linux 
>     for SIP or XMPP (through the debian /ubuntu repositories) as well as some of 
>     the clients that are available for android (through F-droid) - ekiga, empathy, 
>     telepathy,pidgin; lumicall, csipsimple, etc... with very little success. I 
>     think I managed to get an audio call working only once with my brother, which 
>     was an empathy - empathy or empathy - pidgin connection I think).  My brother 
>     says he's had some success using Pidgin with riseup.net <http://riseup.net> and XMPP.
>
>     Have also tried several servers: riseup.net <http://riseup.net> and jabber.org <http://jabber.org> for xmpp, and 
>     ostel.co <http://ostel.co> (guardian project) and ekiga.net <http://ekiga.net> for SIP; haven't been particularly 
>     systematic in testing these but still little success.
>
>     I'm not particularly techie (though maybe more than most of the public) and 
>     haven't really been able to fiddle a lot round with settings as I don't 
>     particularly understand them. However, I get the impression that despite these 
>     manuals  suggesting fairly simple set up, these technologies are not really 
>     ready for general use. Secure video and audio calls are an important method of 
>     communication, and ideally there would be some protocols and clients that work 
>     satisfactorily out of the box, and that I would feel able to recommend to 
>     others, with less knowledge or interest in setting up these things. It seems 
>     to me currently that if such protocols and cleints exist, I haven't found 
>     them, and so currrently can't recommend anything to 'beginners'. Perhaps there 
>     are others I haven't tried, or I have just been particularly unfortunate?
>
>     Has anyone had more positive experiences of using SIP/ XMPP? What, if 
>     anything, would you recommend for people with less technological ability, or 
>     commitment, to try?
>
>     Cheers,
>     Nick
>
>
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