Honestly, Bria's checklist of functionality is what I would want.  However,
it doesn't "seem" to work as advertised.

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Michal Bielicki <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Would you be able to do me a spec on what the softphone that would be the
> optimum would have to have in features ? I am talking to a partner company
> that makes such things and want to try t convince them to offer such an
> animal
>
>  Am 18.12.2010 um 00:12 schrieb Victor Williams:
>
>  On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Tony Graziano <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Victor Williams
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > List still isn't sending to my Yahoo address, so hopefully this one will
>> > work...
>> >
>> > I have successfully gotten this working...to an extent, however, a few
>> > things stand out that appear to be incorrect, and I don't know where to
>> fix
>> > them (I can't tell whether it's "feature functionality" or if it's an
>> error
>> > somewhere...in either Bria or SipXecs):
>> >
>> > 1.  Every time logging into Bria via the provisioning route, I keep
>> getting
>> > contacts showing up that I don't believe should.  In the group
>> "Ungrouped
>> > Contacts", I keep getting the same one added to that group every time I
>> log
>> > in.  So if contactA is there when I log off, contactA is there twice
>> when I
>> > log back in.  If I then log off, contactA is there three times when I
>> got in
>> > again.  Etc, etc.  It can be re-created 100% of the time.
>>
>> Known bug, the last bria lab release fixes that. There is a JIRA on it.
>
>  >
>> > 2.  When Bria user A and Bria user B initially log in and add each other
>> as
>> > contacts, neither of them will get a permission request or appear as
>> online
>> > in each other's contacts unless the Jabber: field is filled in with
>> > [email protected], and then hit 'Ok'.  Question for Counterpath
>> > ultimately, and I will raise it with them, but shouldn't that field just
>> > assume it's the same domain unless otherwise stated?
>>
>> No, because the correct format should not assume one's own domain,
>> since it can talk to many. Unless you are using the Spark client which
>> known how to search and dig your own domain for contacts, you would
>> have to enter it. Even Spark populates the <user>@<domain> when adding
>> from their search function.
>>
>
> But each user has to do that each time they start Bria, for every single
> contact whose presence they want to see, and who they want to IM with.  Bria
> completely "forgets" the previous way you had it.
>
>
>> >
>> > 3.  The "Work" contact group is automatically populated with contacts
>> from
>> > the SipXecs install, regardless if they are enabled for IM...even the
>> > superadmin user is listed.  If I remove the group, then come back, it's
>> > magically back again.  I don't want any users automatically populated.
>> The
>> > ultimate goal is to pick users out of a directory (which one is
>> unimportant
>> > now), be able to add their softphone or sip address, and save it in
>> Contacts
>> > and have it be persistent across restarts.
>>
>> This is correct if there is a group speeddial I believe.
>>
>
> I have removed the group speeddials and it still happens.  Just tested it.
>
>
>> >
>> > 4.  To get presence and everything working correctly on each login, for
>> each
>> > user one has to edit each profile and then put [email protected] the
>> > Jabber field and re-check the box to see presence information for that
>> > user.  Otherwise, you can't see presence information.  Why isn't this
>> kept
>> > across restarts of Bria?
>> Your XMPP profile is not storing the contacts locally. It should be,
>> as there is a known bug with storing via the webdav method.
>>
>
> I've got Bria set to store contacts locally.  Every time I change the way
> Bria stores contacts, restart Bria and use the provisioning method, it goes
> back to using Webdav.
>
>
>> >
>> >
>> > There are other nagging issues, but those are the 4 that are getting
>> most on
>> > my nerves right now, and I don't know where the problem truly resides.
>> For
>> > what its worth, logging into Spark or Pidgin with no changes on the
>> SipXecs
>> > side just works.  Only looking at the Bria log file was I able to figure
>> out
>> > that it was sending u...@ipaddressofxmppserver instead of
>> > [email protected].  That is the only reason I tried filling (and
>> > re-filling) the Jabber: field with [email protected], and
>> everything
>> > magically started working.  However, those changes aren't kept across
>> > restarts, and I have no idea why.
>> >
>> I think there is a HUGE number of comments on this, and some progress
>> being made with Counterpath. I'm not pointing fingers at anyone, but
>> this is something they have been slowly fixing one issue at a time,
>> like the whole VCARD cache stuff too.
>>
>> I would encourage you to look in the tracker and see the outstanding
>> issues, what's been done, and comment/assist as you feel prudent.
>
>
> I'll do that.  Currently though, the product is pretty much unusable from
> my perspective.  It would ultimately be for end-users, but I can't give
> end-users something like this...there'd be a revolt.
>
> Are there any other soft phones out there "rumored" to work well with
> SipXecs?  Otherwise my alternative is keeping desk phones across the board
> and having people use Spark...which I don't want to do.  I'd like everything
> happening on the desktop, and consistent across every user in the org.
>
> What happened to the softphone that was sold with SCS?  Who does that code
> belong to now?
>
>
>> >
>> >
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > Also, you need to setup bria to communicate with sipxopenfire. It is
>> better
>> > to use the bria provisioning service in sipconfig to do this. You should
>> > have a sip ONLY account and an IM account (both pointed to sipx). 2
>> > accounts, not both services in one.
>> > See the wiki on counterpath provisioning.
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: sipx-users-boun...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > <sipx-users-boun...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > To: sipx-us...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <sipx-us...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Sent: Thu Dec 16 11:01:08 2010
>> > Subject: [sipx-users] Clarification on IM (XMPP vs SIP)
>> > I have the Bria 3 client working with our install of SipXecs, but I'm
>> > confused on the instant messenger aspect.  If I just fire up Bria with a
>> SIP
>> > profile and check both the SIP and IM boxes, people can IM each other.
>>  How
>> > is that working?  Is that going through the SipXecs server, or is that a
>> > straight peer-to-peer IM?  I don't see any log file containing
>> conversation
>> > history on the SipXecs server.
>> > I also set up an XMPP profile in Bria 3, and that is working.  But
>> again, I
>> > don't understand the difference between the SIP IM vs the XMPP IM when
>> it
>> > just comes to simple instant messaging.  What is gained/lost by using
>> one or
>> > the other?
>> > What I'm trying to accomplish:  I don't want users to send/receive files
>> or
>> > anything, I just want users to be able to IM each other and have the
>> > conversation logged on the server.
>> > Our install doesn't need any of the advanced functionality that Openfire
>> or
>> > any other solution offers.  At this time, we only want people to IM each
>> > other and have the conversations logged.  What is the most
>> straightforward
>> > way to allow that to happen with the SipXecs install?
>> >
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