Linphone is a SIP softphone that provides voice and video calling, instant messaging and conferencing. It allows users to communicate over IP networks using a Linphone account or a compatible third-party SIP service.
The Linux desktop application uses Qt and provides a modern interface for managing calls, messages and contacts. It brings together everyday telephony functions with collaboration facilities, making it suitable for personal communication and business environments. The software also supports communication with ordinary telephone numbers when connected to a suitable SIP provider offering PSTN access.
Linphone is built around the Linphone SDK and the Mediastreamer2 media engine. Its SIP-based architecture allows it to work with compatible communications infrastructure, including the Flexisip server developed by Belledonne Communications.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Voice and video calls using the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).
- Manage multiple SIP accounts and switch between identities.
- Group audio and video calls, with additional conferencing capabilities when used with compatible server infrastructure.
- Instant messaging, voice messages, file sharing and conversation history.
- Contact management, address book import and CardDAV integration.
- Presence information for compatible contacts and accounts.
- Call hold, resume, transfer and management of multiple simultaneous calls.
- Secure communications using supported TLS, SRTP and end-to-end encryption technologies.
- Audio processing facilities including echo cancellation and noise suppression.
- Support for common audio and video codecs, including Opus and H.264.
- NAT traversal through ICE, STUN and TURN where supported by the network and server.
- Recording management with playback of saved audio and video calls.
Website: github.com/belledonnecommunications/linphone-desktop
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Developer: Belledonne Communications
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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Linphone apk as a video security phone for old phone,motion detection to start a alarm and make a recorded video call, there windows to PC to phone worked perfectly, was tables to stream tv,is there a auto answers
Or call or script function?
I’m not sure what you mean…
NOTHING I can do will make Linphone call out to a conventional PSTN phone number, even though it has registered my [Sipgate] SIP telephone account. It seems to expect all outcalls to be to sip destinations – as if all callees are also on SIP. This is nonsense: the whole point of VOIP is that it can bridge SIP and the previous century’s worth of POTS/PSTN lines (‘ordinary telephone numbers’). This works fine on other clients like Grandstream Wave and Zoiper and the like. Am I missing something in the somewhat confusing Linphone UI ? I’ve tried adding a landline number to the Contact list, but it just “presumes” the number to be a client account at the same SIP provider I use (and so ‘constructs’ an invalid SIP address – eg [email protected] – which of course doesn’t exist and fails.
Is this software completely useless for POTS/PSTN calls, and why hasn’t anyone else pointed this out yet ??
Mike
London
IT 40+ years
Have you asked the developer of Linphone about your issue? If so, what was their response?