SIPfoundry.org sipXphone Ebuild for Gentoo Linux

From SIPfoundry sipx, The Open Source SIP PBX for Linux - Calivia

[edit] Configure the Portage Overlay directory

Ebuilds should not be placed within the standard portage tree. Every time an 'emerge sync' is performed, local changes are lost. Portage can be configured to look for ebuilds in 'overlay directories'.

mkdir /usr/local/portage

echo 'PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"' >> /etc/make.conf

[edit] Checkout Ebuilds and Related Files using Subversion

The fastest way to get the ebuilds is by checking them out using Subversion. If you do not have Subversion itself on your system, emerge it now. You can disable the installation of Apache by adding USE="-apache2".

USE="-apache2" emerge --ask subversion

mkdir /usr/local/portage/net-misc
cd /usr/local/portage/net-misc
# Check out sipXphone ebuild files
svn checkout http://sipx-wiki.calivia.com/svn/sipx-ebuilds/net-misc/sipxportlib/
svn checkout http://sipx-wiki.calivia.com/svn/sipx-ebuilds/net-misc/sipxtacklib/
svn checkout http://sipx-wiki.calivia.com/svn/sipx-ebuilds/net-misc/sipxcalllib/
svn checkout http://sipx-wiki.calivia.com/svn/sipx-ebuilds/net-misc/sipxmedialib/
svn checkout http://sipx-wiki.calivia.com/svn/sipx-ebuilds/net-misc/sipxphone/

[edit] Emerge sipXphone

Audio is provided by sipXmediaLib. Local audio support will be enabled if alsa and oss are in your USE flags.

# Add ALSA and OSS to your USE flags
USE="alsa oss"

Currently, only the development branch 'main' supports local audio and STUN. sipXphone does not build with sipX-libraries from the 2.8 branch. Issue the following to make sure development versions of the four required libraries are built.

echo 'net-misc/sipxportlib ~x86' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo 'net-misc/sipxtacklib ~x86' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo 'net-misc/sipxcalllib ~x86' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo 'net-misc/sipxmedialib ~x86' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo 'net-misc/sipxphone ~x86' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

The following command first builds the development version 2.9 of sipXportLib, sipXtackLib, sipXcallLib and sipXmediaLib before building sipXphone.

emerge --ask net-misc/sipxphone

(In my case, WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.6 emerge --ask net-misc/sipxphone, had to be used; spblinux)

[edit] Start sipXphone

 cd /usr/local/sipx/bin && ./sipXphone.sh

Enable the phone's web server by pressing 'More'. After restarting the phone you can access it with your browser.

[edit] Troubleshooting

[edit] Configuration

Default configuration directory:

/usr/local/sipx/share/sipxphone

User specific configuration directory:

~/.sipxphone

A set of default configuration files is copied to ~./sipxphone by the sipXphone.sh startup script. Also refer to SipXphone_Configuration_Files

[edit] Sound

sipXphone uses OSS, which together with the /dev/dsp device should be present on most desktop linux systems.

Using the ALSA driver compiled into the kernel should work fine. Using the ALSA module is for people who want the most recent ALSA code independently of their current kernel version.

KMix (kmix) can be used to tune volumes. Remember that you have to turn on "Mic" or "Capture" or possibly another input based on your sound device under the "Input" tab for the microphone to work.

Calling the FWD Echo service (this works without registering the phone with FWD. Make sure your firewall/NAT allows the phone to call an external IP address)

Call by URL:  sip:613@fwd.pulver.com

[edit] Starting the Web server

The sipXphone softphone’s Web server runs directly on the PC and provides access to files that are stored on that PC. For security reasons, this Web server does not start automatically after emerging sipXphone.

After turning on the phone's internal Web server try netstat -lnt to verify that the port specified for the Web server is open.