Thanks Daniel, is this a specific answer to my question? Then I don't understand it. - Why is it working with some contacts?
Would be great if you could help, Peter P.S.: I understand, and I agree, that relying on Google is not necessarily a good thing. ATM though, I'm trying to fix a technical issue, not politics, net neutrality, and so forth. 2015-09-22 7:41 GMT+02:00 Daniel Pocock <[email protected]>: > > > On 21/09/15 23:40, Peter Bittner wrote: >> I've got an Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS box running Empathy 3.8.6, and I've got >> a Google (apps) account configured. >> >> According to the documentation [1] voice and video chat should work >> with Google, provided GTalk corresponds Hangouts today. I've checked >> the installed codecs, and the ones listed in the docs [1] are >> installed. >> >> Now, I do have Voice Call and Video Call in the user's context menu, >> but for most users these options are grayed out. Not sure why: One >> contact I called today was using their Google (Hangouts) account on a >> Windows box and Psi messenger, another one is using their Google apps >> account (i.e. custom domain, as I do) and is online now with Empathy. >> (Interestingly, the former has the two options grayed out again now >> that the account is set to "Away". Strange!) >> >> Is there any specific rule to when voice and video chat is available? >> Peter >> > > http://danielpocock.com/google-xmpp-users-high-and-dry > > Would you run your own XMPP server, using open source software such as > Prosody? > > http://rtcquickstart.org > _______________________________________________ > telepathy mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy _______________________________________________ telepathy mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
