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

[Peter Bittner]

Thanks Daniel,

is this a specific answer to my question? Then I don't understand it.
- Why is it working with some contacts?

Would be great if you could help,
Peter

P.S.: I understand, and I agree, that relying on Google is not
necessarily a good thing. ATM though, I'm trying to fix a technical
issue, not politics, net neutrality, and so forth.



2015-09-22 7:41 GMT+02:00 Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro>:
>
>
> 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
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