#106 Support for PSTN calling

[Tzafrir Cohen]

In our company Skype for Business is used and allows calling landline and phone numbers as well. A number of web pages have "tel:" URLs. And in any case it would be nice if I can call someone using my desktop headset and not my mobile phone.

I was not able to find out how Skype clients do that.

[Stefan Becker]

I'm pretty sure this requires a PSTN proxy service on the server side.

My guess is that the provisiongroup name="ucPolicy" node in the roaming-provisioning-v2 event would provide the necessary information, e.g. the URI for the proxy. Please provide a debug log with unsafe debugging enabled from your setup (see FAQ).

Assigning to Jakub to have a look after the debug log has been provided.

[Jakub Adam]

If your SfB admins have assigned a phone number to your account, you can call mobiles and landlines from Pidgin as well: select Accounts -> your SfB account -> Call a phone number... and type in the number in the international format (starting with '+' and the country code).

I've just tried to ring my phone for the first time in many months and the call went through fine.

[Stefan Becker]

Dooooh, of course I forgot that that menu exists (doesn't seem to work for my account though). Thanks Jakub!

Closing as INVALID as calling a phone number is already implemented

[Stefan Becker]

... and of course I forgot that it is also supported by the D-Bus interface: SipeCallPhoneNumber. Example code can be found in contrib/dbus/sipe-call-phone-number.pl, i.e. it should be simple to set up a tel: URI handler on your desktop.