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| Currently, telepathy offers a VoIP implementation and the user can access this feature through the universal empathy client. Modem based voice calls are not supported at the moment; also empathy is missing interfaces for messaging by SMS, MMS etc. |
This spec explores how to integrate oFono middleware in the existing telephony stacks available, to evaluates how the telephony stack can be improved in general, and how we can unify the software, application development, and user experience of both telephony and VoIP. In particular this spec intends to address those steps we can take in Maverick to further this goal. |
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This spec proposes adding a PoC dialer UI that automatically selects sip vs. ofono calls, or lets user choose which stack to use for the call. This spec proposes to integrate the dialer app in address book infrastructure of evolution-data-server and akonadi based distribution profiles. |
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| * We find a usb modem on the market that has free drivers and is supported by ofono (or alternatively can be enabled in ofono) (Action: Pete Goodall) | A usb modem can be acquired that has free drivers in mainline kernel and is supported by ofono (or alternatively can be enabled in ofono with reasonable effort) (Action: Pete Goodall) |
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| This spec proposes to pair ofono with telepathy and add a dialer application that allows to showcase and test the telephony and hardware stack on telepathy enabled deployments. A glue for pairing ofono and telepathy has been made available by the meego project and is called telepathy-ring, whose git branch is available at the url below: | We pair ofono with telepathy. A glue for pairing ofono and telepathy has been made available by the meego project and is called telepathy-ring, whose git branch is available at the url below: |
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| On top it is proposed to make a showcase dialer UI; outreaching to the empathy community is important and recommended as it was mentioned during UDS that they plan on working on such dialer UI. | We add a dialer application that allows to showcase and test the telephony and hardware stack in telepathy enabled distribution profiles |
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| Also, the telephony dialer should be properly integrated in the system addressbook service, like evolution-data-server and in the system addressbook first this integration should happen for both, evolution-data-server and akonadi enabled distribution profiles. | Reaching out to empathy developers to develop this dialer application in the empathy framewrk is considered important and recommended as it was mentioned during UDS that they plan on working on such dialer UI anyway. On top we integrate the telephony dialer in common addressbook services: * evolution-data-server * akonadi Integration is targetted to happen by using a protocol scheme. |
Launchpad Entry: arm-m-telephony-stack
Created: May 5, 2010
Contributors: David Sugar, Alexander Sack
Packages affected: ofono, telepathy, telepathy-ring (NEW), empathy (dialer)
Summary
This spec explores how to integrate oFono middleware in the existing telephony stacks available, to evaluates how the telephony stack can be improved in general, and how we can unify the software, application development, and user experience of both telephony and VoIP. In particular this spec intends to address those steps we can take in Maverick to further this goal.
This spec proposes integrating ofono with telepathy by integrating the telepathy-ring package shipped by meego: http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-cellular/telapathy-ring
This spec proposes adding a PoC dialer UI that automatically selects sip vs. ofono calls, or lets user choose which stack to use for the call.
This spec proposes to integrate the dialer app in address book infrastructure of evolution-data-server and akonadi based distribution profiles.
Rationale
In order to reach out to better serve the mobile market in future, it is required to deliver a more complete and better integrated telephony stack. This includes middleware and drivers required to use modem for calls and messaging as well as driving the UI forward to a level where it can be used to exercise and showcase the telephony stack and hardware.
Assumptions
A usb modem can be acquired that has free drivers in mainline kernel and is supported by ofono (or alternatively can be enabled in ofono with reasonable effort) (Action: Pete Goodall)
Design
We pair ofono with telepathy. A glue for pairing ofono and telepathy has been made available by the meego project and is called telepathy-ring, whose git branch is available at the url below:
We add a dialer application that allows to showcase and test the telephony and hardware stack in telepathy enabled distribution profiles
Reaching out to empathy developers to develop this dialer application in the empathy framewrk is considered important and recommended as it was mentioned during UDS that they plan on working on such dialer UI anyway.
On top we integrate the telephony dialer in common addressbook services:
- evolution-data-server
- akonadi
Integration is targetted to happen by using a protocol scheme.
Implementation
Implementation involves various items:
- find and get access to usb modems that can do voice calls (GSM + CDMA)
- ensure that free drivers exist
- an ofono backend can be made available
- ensure that ofono in archive is modern enough for telepathy-ring
- package up an ofono with support for the modem
- package and stabilize telepathy-ring
- if needed, upgrade telepathy stack to a newer version that is supported by telepathy-ring
Release Note
Linaro Core comes with an extended telephony stack built on telepathy; a showcase dialer UI is available in the the default headless and netbook install.
UI Changes
- For netbook and phone UI profiles, integrate latest empathy and ensure that there is a seperate dialer app suitable for touchphones.
Test/Demo Plan
It's important that we are able to test new features, and demonstrate them to users. Use this section to describe a short plan that anybody can follow that demonstrates the feature is working. This can then be used during testing, and to show off after release. Please add an entry to http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Coverage/NewFeatures for tracking test coverage.
This need not be added or completed until the specification is nearing beta.
Unresolved issues
This should highlight any issues that should be addressed in further specifications, and not problems with the specification itself; since any specification with problems cannot be approved.
UDS Maverick Discussion
Problem Space
- Lots of communication methods and services
- with different api's
- different client experiences
- ranging from VoIP to cellular, and all in between
- Many kinds of applications
- generic communication programs
- specialized custom enterprise apps
- ACD agents and relationship management
- Need to integrate other system resources such as address books
- Telephony application development often need to deal with audio processing
- and different network transport protocols long before the "application"
Proposed Goals
- Unify disparate communication systems with different api's
- Simplify telephony application programming
- Single solution that works for cell phones to desktop
Questions
- Is desktop agnostic essential?
- Can we use just a heavyweight client with an external API?
- Does a heavywieight client effect agnostic and lightweight environments?
- Can we use ofono as a top layer telephony application stack?
- How much work is needed to make ofono usable this way in Ubuntu?
- Can we reduce telephony application development to something like "quickly"?
- How have others tried to solve this, and what can we learn?
Discussion Notes
- What are the differences and advantages of Ofono regarding Telepathy?
- Telepathy has a more complete/complex API, aka ofono would restrict the feature set
- oFono plugin for telepathy exists for nokia, but is currently closed source
- call routing: might not work on phones; power consumption for VOIP isnt optimal
- preferred way to route calls could be auto selected; where? client needs to take care
- because telepathy has no concept to do that; client could be != UI
- preferred way to route calls could be auto selected; where? client needs to take care
- priority should be to get use cases and devices work; then think about UI
- integration with bearer management to make call routing decisions
Action Items
- bearer management service as part of the default
- client that integrates with bearer management, address book (eds, akonadi), telepathy
- sipwitch as proxy service? benefit: smart voip routing, smart NAT support, multi-device handling
- 100k overhead
- package ofono and friends
- UI: DTMF dialer; bearer management problem; should we extend the empathy UI?
- complicated question: how to do routing? where do do that?
Telepathy contacts: sjoerd rob mcquen
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