[Quickcall] Fedora 13 x86_64

[Michael Cheselka]

Hello David,

I've never seen a VoIP device's Linux software implement the call
pick-up or hang-up buttons but my knowledge in this area is minute.

Try looking into pulseaudio.  I visit #pulseaudio irc.freenet.net.

I'm used to all audio going to my Bluetooth headset and it switching
between HD stereo and telephony headset automatically.  I'd like to
route telephony to the QuickCall, esp. when a call comes in, so i can
heard the ringtone from another room, but pulseaudio doesn't route
sound by application type.  I guess that's the next step in the
evolution of Linux audio.  It seems like they are working on it since
they have an "Applications" tab in gnome-volume-control in Fedora 13
and Ubuntu 10.04.

It would be nice to route "ringtone => quickcall device", "telephony
input => usb headset", "telephony output => usb headset", "stereo
music => headphone jack".

Also, it would be nice if button presses went to the appropriate
place, either the app( VoIP call pick-up/hang-up) or pulse audio(
volume up/down).

> Right.  As far as I can tell that's the only modes it can work in -
> the hardware mike is stereo, the speaker mono.

I was guess was leaning that way.

Regards,
Michael Cheselka
650-488-4820




On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 22:07, David Gibson
<quickcall at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 06:35:26AM -0700, Michael Cheselka wrote:
>> Hello David,
>>
>> By full functionality, I mean that none of the buttons and knobs work.
>> I want to be able to answer calls, mute the microphone, hang up, and
>> control the volume.
>
> Ok.  So, as I say, the volume knob and mute buttons are supposed to
> work, but there seems to be some sort of bug.  I'll try to fix that.
>
> Call and hangup buttons are much harder: to implement them means
> interacting with whatever program you're using for VoIP (ekiga, skype,
> empathy, whatever).  There's no standard way of doing that, so it
> would potentially require hacking any and all such programs you might
> want to use.  I could translate the button presses into input layer
> events assigned to semi-standard media buttons, which might work with
> some programs, but probably not that many.
>
>> Right now, the speaker works in mono and the microphone works in stereo.
>
> Right.  As far as I can tell that's the only modes it can work in -
> the hardware mike is stereo, the speaker mono.
>
>> Never heard of qcfrob.py.
>
> Ok, that was my original proof of concept which could manually issue
> the magic initialization to the hardware.
>
>> > That's probably because it's a certificate issued by cacert.org and
>>
>> Yes, it looks like that.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michael Cheselka
>> 650-488-4820
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 05:15, David Gibson
>> <quickcall at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 01:13:18AM -0700, Michael Cheselka wrote:
>> >> Hello David,
>> >>
>> >> Thank you for making my > $50 USD purchase years ago finally amount to
>> >> something.
>> >>
>> >> It's mostly working under Fedora 13 x86_64.  Volume control knob and
>> >> buttons don't do anything.
>> >
>> > I take it this is with quickcalld, rather than the earlier qcfrob.py?
>> > The mute button and volume knob code worked for me last I tried, but
>> > I've had another report of them not working.  I'll try to have another
>> > look at it sometime.
>> >
>> >> Also, the server certificate is marked dangerous by Google Chrome:
>> >>
>> >> https://lists.ozlabs.org/confirm/quickcall/a1b2c3...
>> >
>> > That's probably because it's a certificate issued by cacert.org and
>> > their root certificate isn't included in chrome by default.  It should
>> > be possible to add their CA, but I'm not familiar with chrome, so I
>> > can't tell you how.
>> >
>> >> Are you using Fedora or Ubuntu?
>> >
>> > I use Ubuntu myself.
>> >
>> >> Is there any further development ongoing with this project?
>> >
>> > Not actively, in that I haven't done anything new for quite a while.
>> > I expect I may add some more, though, when I next want to use the
>> > speakerphone myself and feel the lack of functionality.  Or when I
>> > have some time, and it makes it to the top of my list of things to
>> > work on.  Contributions which improve things are always most welcome,
>> > of course.
>> >
>> >> I'd really like to see full functionality now the Gmail has the Google
>> >> Voice plugin.
>> >
>> > Hrm, I'm not sure exactly what would count as "full functionality".
>> > What specific things did you have in mind.
>> >
>> >
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