[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Voice over IP

[From: javier at cozybit.com]

<! Apologies for reposting.  My previous subject line was wrong !>

Hi Timo,

On Tuesday 14 June 2005 10:24 am, Timo Steuerwald wrote:
> I thought about a Voice-over-IP application that uses a headset via
> bluetooth.

If you search in this mailing list you will see people from Nokia claiming
that there is also a built-in mic that you can use.

> Theoretical this should be possible, but at the tutorial there's
> a paragraph ("Things not yet part of maemo SDK"), that says that WLAN
> access and multimedia support is not possible through the maemo SDK. I'm
> not sure what this means for my plans. I will use the existing WLAN
> connection to initiate VoIP sessions via SIP and send the audio stream
> itself via RTP protocol, so I don't need necessarily access to a WLAN API.
> The bluetooth headset should be accessible through a generic bluetooth
> interface.
> The only thing I need is access to TCP, IP and UDP as on common Linux
> operating systems. Seeing that, this application should be possible to
> build anyway. Or not?

We are porting a SIP client to maemo.  We've got the core already running and
we are now working on the GUI.  This section of the maemo documentation
was very useful:
http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_porting_an_existing_application.html#Networking-Changes
And as you well guess, we did not need to access the WLAN API.

Happy hacking!

Javier

--
Javier Cardona
cozybit Inc.