<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Hi… <o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> I wrote mycontacts ( <a href="http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=57162">http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=57162</a> ) for maemo5 (n900) and until today thought had figure out just enough of telepathy to initiate “calls”. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> To start an audio call I used: <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <pre>    QVariantMap request;<o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='-qt-block-indent:0'>    // audio works<o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='-qt-block-indent:0'>    request.insert(QLatin1String(TELEPATHY_INTERFACE_CHANNEL ".ChannelType"), TELEPATHY_INTERFACE_CHANNEL_TYPE_STREAMED_MEDIA);<o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='-qt-block-indent:0'>    request.insert(QLatin1String(TELEPATHY_INTERFACE_CHANNEL ".TargetHandleType"), (uint) Tp::HandleTypeContact);<o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='-qt-block-indent:0'>    request.insert(QLatin1String(TELEPATHY_INTERFACE_CHANNEL ".TargetID"), account);<o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0'>    request.insert(QLatin1String(TELEPATHY_INTERFACE_CHANNEL ".Type.StreamedMedia.InitialAudio"), true);<o:p></o:p></pre>     return account.data()->ensureChannel(request);<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> To initiate a video call I added to the previous code: <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> request.insert(QLatin1String(TELEPATHY_INTERFACE_CHANNEL ".Type.StreamedMedia.InitialVideo"), true);<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> …. and assumed everything was fine. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> With the code above I am able to successfully initiate audio calls with “cellular” (tel/ring), sip and TOR.  Also, I am able to place audio calls with skype to “skype accounts” and apparently was working for skype video calls…. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> But today a user, “Uvatbc”, pointed out to me that he couldn’t use the application to call phone numbers using spirit/skype (apparently I had never tried myself). After few (or several) e-mails we figured out that after removing “InitialAudio” we were also able to place calls to phone numbers using spirit.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> After checking the documentation (<a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec/org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.StreamedMedia.html#org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.StreamedMedia.InitialAudio">http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec/org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.StreamedMedia.html#org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.StreamedMedia.InitialAudio</a>) he found that “InitialAudio” and “InitialVideo” SHOULD be ignored by the connection manager if passed to ensureChannel.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> They are not ignored by spirit/skype at all and oddly enough they seem to affect how the channel was created just as one would expect/hope (initialvideo=video) - but after apparently starting as expected it fails! <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> When InitialAudio is included the call to a skype account (e.g. fcrochik) works fine; a call to a phone number (e.g. +155511223344) will fail with “unable to establish connection” message after apparently starting to dial. When InitialVideo is included we get the skype video call window to show up but it fails before the connection is completed. It is clear that InitialVideo and InitialAudio are not ignored at all. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> So the questions are:<o:p></o:p> In order to start an audio call should I just remove the “InitialAudio” line? It seems to work for every case…. <o:p></o:p> How should I proceed to start a video call? Can I do that using ensureChannel? (I have not tried to remove InitialAudio but leave InitialVideo… it would not make sense according to the documentation but would not surprise me if it works).<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I would imagine that spirit/skype NOT ignoring the InitialAudio and InitialVideo is considered a bug but don’t have any idea where to report. Should I report anywhere?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p> Felipe Crochik<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>