[Slackbuilds-users] Is Ekiga being phased out of SBo

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 22/02/2022 17:46, Dave Woodfall wrote:
>> There is also a plugin for Pidgin called SIPE (an extended version of
>> SIP), but I have never tested it, and don't know how compatible it is
>> with normal SIP:
>> http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/network/pidgin-sipe/
> 
> I've just had a look at this and pushed an update to get it to build
> on 15.0.
> 
> SIP shows in pidgin's "add account" menu as SIMPLE, and I
> successfully managed to make an account and register it to my
> asterisk PBX.
> 
> I added a buddy, which was my home phone, but it shows offline, so
> "enable offline buddies" then configure the buddy to always show is
> needed.
> 
> That's as far as I tested it, but I noticed some menu entries to
> configure audio/video, so I imagine it ought to work.

Thank you Dave - for Pidgin-sipe and the linphonec suggestion. At least 
least there are a few options available.