Jan 26
Twinkle softphone for Linux
My new job involves some travelling. International mobile roaming rates are laughably high. VOIP, of course, works anywhere with a decent net connection.
I’ve never had any luck with Ekiga. For some reason, whenever I try to make a call through my Sipgate account, I’m given a “Security check failed” message, even though inbound calls are fine. A quick check in the Ubuntu repositories revealed Twinklephone.
It’s a QT app, so it doesn’t precisely share the look and feel of my Gnome desktop but … it works. It sits quietly on the taskbar until a call comes in or I want to make one and I can talk to people with it. So, it’ll be ideal for use with my laptop and, even better, I can save some electricity by unplugging the PAP2 and using it on my desk PC.
January 26th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Thanks for that - easy to setup, integrates with KDE and works just fine with sipgate through VoXaLot. I’ll be replacing Ekiga with it too.
For some reason Ekiga makes my company’s router crash when I make a SIP call, but Twinklephone doesn’t. That’s a nice bonus too
You forgot to include the URL though: http://www.twinklephone.com/
February 5th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
I had the same problem with “Security check failed”. Put in a support ticket with my Diamondcard, and was told to try removing the first two 0s. So, called “sip:442071234567″ (for example) and it seemed to work fine for me with Ekiga.
HTH,
Tom