[Telepathy] [announce] Telepathy snom connection manager version 0.4.0

[Tobias Hunger]

Hi Telepathy Community!

I am very pleased to announce version 0.4.0 of the Telepathy snom phone
connection manager.


Telepathy snom
==============

Telepathy snom is a Telepathy specification
(http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec.html) compliant connection manager. It
enables remote controlling of VoIP phones as build by snom from Telepathy
compatible desktop applications.

Telepathy-snom enables computer telephone integration (CTI) in an opensource
environment. Using the Decibel realtime communication server this connection
manager can be used in applications to report on call state or to dial out
directly to users via a SIP network (eg. managed by an asterisk server).

Telepathy-snom is implemented using the Tapioca Qt language bindings
(http://tapioca-voip.sourceforge.net/wiki/)


Acknowledgments
---------------

Development of this connection manager is sponsored by NLnet
(http://www.nlnet.nl/) and basysKom GmbH (http://www.basyskom.de/) as part of
the Decibel project. It is used to test the applicability of the Telepathy
specification for computer telephone integration.

Thanks for the support you are giving to the project!

I further want to thank the Tapioca project
(http://tapioca-voip.sourceforge.net/) for providing the Qt bindings to
Telepathy I am using in this connection manager.


License
-------

Telepathy-snom is released under the LGPL version 2.1.


Version 0.4.0
===============

It enables:
 * Connecting to a snom phone using any of the identities defined in the 
phone.
 * Monitoring of incoming calls
 * Monitoring of outgoing calls
 * Dialing out
 * Accepting incomming calls
 * Reporting of call state
 * Group interface support for improved interoperability with other telepathy
   clients.
 * DTMF support


Changes since Version 0.3.0
=============================

 * Use the group interface on the channels. This is actually required by
   telepathy for streamed media channels now.
 * Add DTMF support.


Sources:
==========

Get the sources at http://decibel.kde.org/index.php?id=code

Instructions on building the sources and dependencies can be found in the
INSTALL file in the source tarballs. Please also see the README file for
instructions on how to configure telepathy-snom and your snom phone for use
with each other.

If you have questions or comments, please send an email to
    tobias dot hunger at basyskom dot de

Thanks for using telepathy snom!


Known Problems
================

None.


To Do
======

 * Add muting the phone
 * Work with the telepathy community to further improve the specification for
   usecases important to computer telephone integration.
   Features not yet covered fully are eg. conferencing and configuration of
   devices.


Contact
=========

Web:          http://decibel.kde.org/
mailing list: decibel at kde dot org
IRC:          #decibel on freenode.net
Author:       tobias dot hunger at basyskom dot de
Authors Blog: http://basysblog.org/

Do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions, feedback or want to help
with the snom Telepathy connection manager or the Decibel Realtime 
Communication
Framework!

-- 

Tobias Hunger
Senior Software Engineer

basysKom GmbH
Robert-Bosch-Str. 7 | 64293 Darmstadt | Germany
Tel: +49 6151 3968769 | Fax: -9736 |
tobias.hunger at basyskom.de | www.basyskom.de

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