Hello everyone,
I'm doing this little post because I had really hard time doing this.
So here's what I wanted to do :
I wanted to make to have the phone numbers in my Thunderbird Contacts to be cliclable and start automatically Ekiga to call over a Voip provider. I used DiamondCard SIP provider, which is the recommendation of Ekiga folks.
Here's what you have to do:
- Go grab TBDialOut extension for thunderbird and install it
- Install Ekiga and configure your Voip PC-to-Phone account. Make sure it is default.
- In your contacts, make sure to have the right format for the phone numbers. Don't put any "-" or spaces. You normally need to add the country prefix (1 for US and Canada). So a phone number in Canada would look like : 18197895632 (country code, area code, phone number)
- After that, you need to ensure that SIP url are handled throught xdg-open :
- Open your /home/{user}/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list file
- Add this line
Code:x-scheme-handler/sip=ekiga-call.desktop- Open Thunar or PCManFM in root mode
- Go to /usr/share/applications
- Copy ekiga.desktop in the same folder and rename it ekiga-call.desktop
- Again, in root mode, open the ekiga-call.desktop file
- Add that line at the end of the file
Code:MimeType=x-scheme-handler/sip- Go to the Exec line and replace it with
Code:Exec=ekiga -c %U- Last, you must configure TBDialOut Extension :
- Go to the preferences dialog of the extension
- Choose custom URL
- Enter the following (changing it if you have another provider than diamondcard)
Code:sip:%NUM%@sip.diamondcard.us
You are good to go!
For reference here are my sources of Info:
http://superuser.com/questions/16209...tocol-with-xdg
http://www.oak-wood.co.uk/faq/conten...-_-ubuntu.html
http://www.oak-wood.co.uk/faq/conten...ith-ekiga.html
https://www.oak-wood.co.uk/faq/conte...y-running.html
Jonathan
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