<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>Was looking at testing Jitsi next for VoIP.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 12:47 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nmd@riseup.net" target="_blank">nmd@riseup.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<pre>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 <a href="http://riseup.net" target="_blank">riseup.net</a> and XMPP.
Have also tried several servers: <a href="http://riseup.net" target="_blank">riseup.net</a> and <a href="http://jabber.org" target="_blank">jabber.org</a> for xmpp, and
<a href="http://ostel.co" target="_blank">ostel.co</a> (guardian project) and <a href="http://ekiga.net" target="_blank">ekiga.net</a> 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</pre>
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