{"id":94,"date":"2007-11-15T05:14:56","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T09:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/2007\/11\/15\/free-sip-on-leopard-exists-after-all\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T00:58:02","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T05:58:02","slug":"free-sip-on-leopard-exists-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/2007\/11\/15\/free-sip-on-leopard-exists-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Free SIP on Leopard exists after all!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it’s been a few weeks since Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) came out.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the major things that immediately hit a lot of people was that every known third-party SIP client stopped working<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I work from home.\u00c2\u00a0 I have an extension number at work that rings on a Polycom phone in my home office, thanks to the magic of VoIP.\u00c2\u00a0 This same VoIP technology (namely SIP) has allowed me (up until I upgraded to Leopard) to run a “soft phone” program on my laptop to allow me to connect to the same phone system when I was out of my office.\u00c2\u00a0 With the help of a set of headphones, a laptop actually makes a halfway-decent phone.<\/p>\n

The two free (as in beer, not freedom) products previously available that I knew of were SJPhone and X-Lite.\u00c2\u00a0 Both of these broke on Leopard.\u00c2\u00a0 SJPhone hasn’t been updated in years, and the material on their website makes it look like the Mac version was an afterthought anyway, so I don’t hold high hopes for them ever updating it.\u00c2\u00a0 X-Lite is a pared down version of a commercial product called eyeBeam.\u00c2\u00a0 eyeBeam just got updated for Leopard this last week.\u00c2\u00a0 An X-Lite update is expected “by the end of the year”.\u00c2\u00a0 The obvious reason for the delay is to encourage people who are frustrated enough to throw money at it to upgrade to eyeBeam instead of waiting. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

There *are* two free products that have been updated for Leopard which do SIP to a generic PBX of your choosing. Those are SightSpeed and Gizmo Project.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, both of these require you to register with their service, and sign in on their service, and your generic-PBX-of-your-choosing account is a secondary login (if you don’t log into their service, your generic one won’t connect either).<\/p>\n

The world is in really dire need right now of a good open source solution for SIP on the Mac. \u00c2\u00a0 If any of the above programs were open source, I would bet we would have had patches posted somewhere within days (if not hours) to make them work on Leopard.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: I was going to post this hoping to get some discussion going and\/or someone to point out something that works that I missed.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But before I could post it, I found one!\u00c2\u00a0 XMeeting<\/a> not only works on Leopard (it apparently didn’t break — there hasn’t been a release since July), but it also supports DTMF (touch tones) during the call, which is the one thing that’s been missing from all the other free stuff I’ve tried so far.\u00c2\u00a0 Touch tones during a call are pretty important for things like entering the password for a conference call.\u00c2\u00a0 XMeeting supports video, too (and so does Mozilla’s phone system).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So it’s been a few weeks since Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) came out.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the major things that immediately hit a lot of people was that every known third-party SIP client stopped working.\u00c2\u00a0 I work from home.\u00c2\u00a0 I have an extension number at work that rings on a Polycom phone in my home … <\/p>\n

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