Denver Gingerich <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 08:40:36PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: >> I would like to understand why you recommend CSipSimple. I had trouble >> with it when using ostel.co. I am fuzzy on the details, but I think it >> would start using CPU time after there was a cell->wifi handover or the >> reverse and not recover. But more seriously it appears to have no >> functioning upstream, and the last release was in 2014. > > The main reason for recommending CSipSimple is that it appears to be > the only Android SIP client that reliably rings on incoming calls. > User reports suggest that other SIP clients (including the built-in > client) often miss calls, which we want to avoid.
I see. That may be true on linphone. I didn't end up talking to people much on sip as it was. > While CSipSimple does appear to be somewhat unmaintained, we're not If it's only "somewhat", that's much better than I thought. I was unable to find an upstream repo or bugtracker, or a single person who was paying attention. If you have pointers to anything, it would be good to add those to your page. > aware of any particular bugs that would cause it to be insecure or > otherwise unsuitable for the JMP use case. Perhaps if we acquire more > resources we will be able to maintain it going forward. We'll see! > >> I have used linphone instead, which seems maintained. However the most >> recent version is not yet available on f-droid. > > Linphone seems to work well for many people, though it doesn't ring as > reliably as CSipSimple. If your use case doesn't require that, then > it may be exactly what you're looking for. It might be easier for you to fix the reliablity problems with linhphone than to resurrect csipsimple :-) >> I gather Ring can do regular SIP too. > > I didn't know that, and haven't tested it. If you find it works well, > we'd be happy to hear about it. Sure, I would post if I get that far. I have been unethusiastic about running ring because it publishes one's IP address into a DHT, which is suboptimal from a location privacy viewpoint.... But perhaps ring w/o ring works. Thanks for the reply, and the jingle comments.
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