[Telepathy] Make Google Hangouts voice and video chat work (Ubuntu 14.04)

[Daniel Pocock]

On 21/09/15 23:40, Peter Bittner wrote:
> I've got an Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS box running Empathy 3.8.6, and I've got
> a Google (apps) account configured.
> 
> According to the documentation [1] voice and video chat should work
> with Google, provided GTalk corresponds Hangouts today. I've checked
> the installed codecs, and the ones listed in the docs [1] are
> installed.
> 
> Now, I do have Voice Call and Video Call in the user's context menu,
> but for most users these options are grayed out. Not sure why: One
> contact I called today was using their Google (Hangouts) account on a
> Windows box and Psi messenger, another one is using their Google apps
> account (i.e. custom domain, as I do) and is online now with Empathy.
> (Interestingly, the former has the two options grayed out again now
> that the account is set to "Away". Strange!)
> 
> Is there any specific rule to when voice and video chat is available?
> Peter
> 

http://danielpocock.com/google-xmpp-users-high-and-dry

Would you run your own XMPP server, using open source software such as
Prosody?

http://rtcquickstart.org