Kphone setup for Community VoIP

VoIP User Kphone Setup

Kphone is a popular softphone for Linux using the Qt libraries.

Configuring it is easy. All you have to do is start Kphone and set your identity (file->identity). The first time you run kphone you're asked to do it.

Just fill the fields with the following information:

*Full name: you can put whatever you want.
*User Part of SIP URL: your voipuser username.
*Host Part of SIP URL: voipuser.org
*Outbound Proxy: voipuser.org. You can also leave it in blank (at least it works for me).
*Authentification Username: your voipuser username.

For example, my user configuration is:



Every time you connect you will be asked for a password. Use the same password you user at voipuser web/forum.

If you have to use a STUN server (probably because you are behind a NAT server), go to preferences->SIP Preferences->Socket. Then choose "Use STUN Server" and put voipuser.org in the "STUN Server (address:port)" field.

This way:-



Then you can configure the codec to use. Go to preferences-> Audio Preferences and choose between G711u (for high bandwith) or GSM (for low bandwith). The VoIP User community doesn't support iLBC for SIP.

Having successfully got voipuser up and running with X-Lite on Windows XP, thought it was about time that I improved my credibilty by setting up kphone on my Slackware box.

Sadly no joy - I get a timeout on failed Registration attempts when trying to log on to voipuer. Works just fine with sipgate, however. Have tried with and without the Stun server options.

Anyone been through this hoop and can enwisen me, please?

Thanks!

Does Kphone log anything?

Sounds like a credentials failure (double check password for typo's) or not reaching the server to start with.

Can you PING sip.voipuser.org succesfully?

Dean

kphone pings sip.voipuser.org fine.

Kphone doesn't store a password -- asks for it during connection, but the connection/registration fails before password is requested.

Can't seem to find a kphone log. Any ideas where best to look.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Appreicated.

Can you post your settings?

Hi.

Just connected from kphone. Everything seems right.

BTW, Dean, I suppose the new "sip.voipuser.org" should be in "Host Part of SIP URL". Am I right?

Quote:

Kphone doesn't store a password -- asks for it during connection

Kphone 4.1.1 and later lets you save your password.

My kphone settings are:

Full name: Andrew Cox
User Part of SIP URL: talkeasy
Host Part of SIP URL: sip.voipuser.org
Outbound Proxy: sip.voipuser.org.
Authentification Username: talkeasy

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I suppose the new "sip.voipuser.org" should be in "Host Part of SIP URL

Different phones use different terminology unfortunately which can make things a little confusing.

But in this case it looks like kphone is referring to the latter half of the URI, in which case it's without the sip subdomain as voipuser URI's remain in the format:-

<username> @voipuser.org

The sip.voipuser.org URL is simply the address of the SIP server, which at the moment is pointing to the same place as voipuser.org (until we move server, which we can't do until we know it's all working correctly).

A bit confusing I know!

TalkEasy - that all looks correct to me, but if voditrord got it working, then it's possible it's something at your end?

Dean

dean :

But in this case it looks like kphone is referring to the latter half of the URI, in which case it's without the sip subdomain as voipuser URI's remain in the format:- <username> @voipuser.org The sip.voipuser.org URL is simply the address of the SIP server, which at the moment is pointing to the same place as voipuser.org (until we move server, which we can't do until we know it's all working correctly). A bit confusing I know!

Yeah, it's a bit confusing, because kphone doesn't ask for the SIP server. Maybe it assumes that the SIP server and the host part of the URI are the same . I'll take a look into that.

My report:

Using "voipuser.org" as "Host Part of SIP URL" everything works fine.

Using "sip.voipuser.org" as "Host Part of SIP URL" login works, but I have to add @voipuser.org to the phone number I want to call to. If I don't do it, kphone automatically adds @sip.voipuser.org, and it doesn't work.

But talkeasy says he can't log in, so I have no idea what his problem is.

Have you tried using another softphone like linphone or kcall?

Sadly no joy - I get a timeout on failed Registration attempts when trying to log on to voipuer. Works just fine with sipgate, however. Have tried with and without the Stun server options.

I had the same problem. The fix was to change to STUN server to voipuser.org, and then set "Use STUN Server" to "Yes", which I missed at first.