Wengophone, GPL-ed softphone from wengo.fr

Mrcin · n00b Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 10 Location: Ljubljana

Hi,
Wengophone supposed to have all the features to replace skype (which is problematic for its closedness.)

http://www.openwengo.com/ recently released beta version of (SIP) softphone available for debian and fedora. I'll try to get it work on gentoo.

Has anyone any experience with this product? On M$ product perhaps. I would try it myself, but I fortunatelly don't use any of the M$ products myself

.

I'll report any progress,

Martin

genmich · Apprentice Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 196

Hi,
I'm testing it at the moment. Better sound quality than skype! Volume is better and the voice is clear.

It's a very new project so it doesn't have all features running yet.
Future: http://www.openwengo.com/support/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19
FAQ: http://www.openwengo.com/support/forum/viewtopic.php?p=36#36

Todo: "As we go, new features will appear: centralized contact lists, PIM synchronisation, file transfers, skin support, conference calls (with both voice and video), dynamic QoS management, user search engine, and much more..."

Conference call would be a big plus...then I would directly uninstall skye!

Sangeki · Apprentice Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 186

Just compiled the current svn.

Look's good but problem is I can't choose any audio devices in the Configuration.
Any Idea's?

lenk · Apprentice Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 211

Just read it on /. maybe someone can make a ebuild for this? Thanks
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prodrigestivill · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 1

Ebuild: wengophone-bin-0.950.ebuild
Path: net-im/wengophone-bin
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# Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

IUSE=""

inherit eutils rpm

DESCRIPTION="Wengo opensource client"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.openwengo.com"
SRC_URI="http://www.wengofiles.teaser-hosting.com/wengophone/beta/Wengophone-${PV}-1.i386.rpm"

LICENSE="GPL-2"
KEYWORDS="x86"

DEPEND=">=x11-libs/qt-3.0"

src_unpack() {
cd ${WORKDIR}
rpm_src_unpack
sed -i -e s/'\/usr\/lib\/wengophone'/'\/opt\/wengophone'/g usr/bin/wengophone || die
}

src_install() {

dodoc ${WORKDIR}/usr/lib/wengophone/{readme-fr.txt,changelog-fr.txt,licence-fr.txt}

exeinto /opt/bin/
doexe ${WORKDIR}/usr/bin/wengophone

dodir /opt/wengophone
rm -f ${WORKDIR}/usr/lib/wengophone/*.txt
mv -f ${WORKDIR}/usr/lib/wengophone/* \
${D}/opt/wengophone/ || die
}

geta · Apprentice Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 153

Seems to be a very cool thing!

I did not find a way to open the url from wengophone to register an account. Does anyone know the direct link? I suppose the accounts for pure voip are free (as in beer).

By the way: building from svn did not work for me. Two errors encountered:
1. Scons complainig about some python imports. Corrected by re-emerging scons, which did the following:
* Cleaning orphaned Python bytecode from /usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages ..
* Cleaning orphaned Python bytecode from /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages ..
* Cleaning orphaned Python bytecode from /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages ..
2. Many qt errors - includes, wrong subclassing etc. Probably they're playing around with the sources, but that's to be expected with svn.

Looking forward to making my online calls with wengophone in the future.

Cheers,
geta
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super-lupo · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:25 pm Post subject:

@prodrigestivill:

Using the ebuild I get following error:

novazur · Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 461 Location: Martinique

Vulcano23 · n00b Joined: 17 May 2004 Posts: 51

There's a new ebuild in portage for wengophone (~x86)

net-im/wengophone-1.0_pre20060106

However, when I try to emerge it I get the following error:

reynolds531 · Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 10:34 pm Post subject:

I've emerged wengophone, but I can't seeim to figure out how to create an account. I click the "Don't have an account?" link on the login window and it takes me to I webpage that asks for a email address and user name. After doing that it takes me to another page that tells me that in order to open an account I have to download the software and click on the link on the login window. How do I get out of this circle?

EDIT: Nevermind, I found a way. Just click on one of the "forgot your password?" links on the website, enter your email address, and wengo will send a newly generated password.

EDIT: Well, no, that didn't work. The password that wengo sent me doesn't work. Any suggestions?

Bill Thompson · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 139

I just got Wengo working, and it's worth the trouble, clearer than Skype. It took me three or four days to get it working correctly. If you have a problem, post it in the forum. They will come back to you within 24r hours.

fdavid · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject:

I encounter the following problem, when I try to emerge net-im/wengophone-1.0_pre20060106:

pinr · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject:

Hi Just checking out Wengophone I emerged it on an AMD 64 system (it is masked by missing keyword btw) without problem. However it crashes when I try and do anything. I get this from the console:
Login: anwser received
Login: login received

set proxy port :5060
* Closing connection #0
$$ server response code : 200
HTTPTUNNEL MODE=0
CodecList: AMR-WB0
CodecList: ILBC1
CodecList: PCMA2
CodecList: PCMU3
CodecList: AMR4
CodecList: GSM5
CodecList: H2630
CodecList: MPEG41

PA :: getWaveOutDeviceId(), found output device id 0 for /dev/dsp (/dev/dsp)

PA :: getWaveInDeviceId(), found input device id 0 for /dev/dsp (/dev/dsp)
** Register and initialize null audio driver
/usr/bin/wengophone: line 10: 25698 Killed ./wengophone

Any ideas?

amitay · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 4

stonie · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:19 pm Post subject:

pinr · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:38 pm Post subject:

Hi I think this is a specific AMD64 problem yes I know someone on the wengo forum posted a similar error on x86, but I think it is unrelated. So far I haven't progressed at all with this. I have tried the ebuild plus the svn source of the 1.0 and trunk branches and I get different errors each time. If I compile with Alsa rather than os I get an alsa error the svn 1.0 branch give the same error as the ebuild and the trunk branch won't log on. I'd love to get this sorted I have Wengophone working on my x86 laptop and it is great definetly a Skype killer as not only is it open source but it also has video.

StUiT · n00b Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 35

Hi everyone,

At the moment this problem is being worked on. To monitor the progress you can look at the trac page for the ticket created for this problem:

http://dev.openwengo.com/trac/openwengo/trac.cgi/ticket/337

Sander

fdavid · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject:

dbkr · n00b Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 2

nivw · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 261

Is there an ebuild for the alpha wengo NG ?

aVirulence · Apprentice Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 170

soviet/funk · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:43 am Post subject:

Missing-keyword masked ebuild? Who cares? :wink:

I just downloaded the video-enabled .deb file - extracted it - extracted the data tgz within - copied the contents of the /usr /bin /share and /lib folders within the data directory to my root /usr directories and hey

presto it looks like it actually works. I get a gray image in the configuration when I try to preview video, but the camera lights up with a red just like when i view it in xawtv, so i guess i'm pretty close to getting that working as well.
I'm on a 2.6.15 kernel amd64, kde, with a pwc webcam.

Now if only the new user registration at wengo would stop saying unknown error... so i could set up a second account and test.
[EDIT: Ah. "Unknown Error!" is because you can only register one account per ip per day. I'm one of god knows how many users behind a gateway, so we all share an ip. Imagine trying to roll out Wengo as a communication platform here? One account per day...]

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ssmaxss · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:11 am Post subject:

Why there is no update to portage? I think newer snapshot than 20060106 will be better.

sysXcep · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject:

I am on amd64 and 20060106 crashed after a few seconds. But I follwed soviet/funks advice and extracted the debian package and now everthing seems to be stable. I hope the ebuild will be updated soon.

ssmaxss · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject:

Maybe file a bug?