3.1.3. X-Lite - SIP softphone
To register an user on this SIPclient-supporting phone we will use the X-Lite phone. You can download it from http://www.xten.com/. You have to be sure that you have already installed Asterisk and registered the users and extensions that we did.
When you download the phone it looks like this on the picture below: Do not worry about the error message that appears on the top of the screen. Just click on the Menu button - left from the Clear button below the screen. Then go to System Settings=>SIP Proxy=>Default. There you have to adjust the phone to the user which is registered in sip.conf on asterisk.
Enabled must be switched to YES - otherwise nothing will work even if your user registration is correct. Display Name may be whatever you want to be displayed. Username and Authorization User must be as in sip.conf and in our example it is ivan. Password has to be same as secret which is set in sip.conf for the user.
Domains and Proxy have to be the IP addresses of your asterisk server. Note that here my asterisk IP is 10.3.3.25 but in your case it might be different.
Now when user ivan or anybody else from the context dials 4321 the user test will be called.
Register the user on X-Lite in the same way like the user ivan.Go to /Start Menu/System Settings/SIP Proxy/Default. The password is again same as the secret in sip.conf where user test is registered.
X-Lite cannot use silence detection when it is used with Asterisk server. To solve this problem we must turn on the 'Transmit Silence' option. We can find this option in Menu>Advanced System settings>Audio Settings>Silence Settings>Transmit Silence. By doing this we are assured that X-lite will send always audio frames even after it detects a silence.
Now we have two registered users who can call each to each. The Command Line Interface (CLI) can be access by typing in Linux: safe_asterisk and then the asterisk "r"
Remember to type reload in CLI every time you change a file in Asterisk.
For information how to make the configurations in the Asterisk's configuration files please read our tutorial about the Configuring IP Phones for use with Asterisk
So, when you open the X-Lite phone where user "ivan" is registered and call number 4321 the other user - "test" on the other pc will be called. Here is what will you see in CLI when doing this.
When you download the phone it looks like this on the picture below: Do not worry about the error message that appears on the top of the screen. Just click on the Menu button - left from the Clear button below the screen. Then go to System Settings=>SIP Proxy=>Default. There you have to adjust the phone to the user which is registered in sip.conf on asterisk.
Enabled must be switched to YES - otherwise nothing will work even if your user registration is correct. Display Name may be whatever you want to be displayed. Username and Authorization User must be as in sip.conf and in our example it is ivan. Password has to be same as secret which is set in sip.conf for the user.
Domains and Proxy have to be the IP addresses of your asterisk server. Note that here my asterisk IP is 10.3.3.25 but in your case it might be different.
Now when user ivan or anybody else from the context dials 4321 the user test will be called.
Register the user on X-Lite in the same way like the user ivan.Go to /Start Menu/System Settings/SIP Proxy/Default. The password is again same as the secret in sip.conf where user test is registered.
X-Lite cannot use silence detection when it is used with Asterisk server. To solve this problem we must turn on the 'Transmit Silence' option. We can find this option in Menu>Advanced System settings>Audio Settings>Silence Settings>Transmit Silence. By doing this we are assured that X-lite will send always audio frames even after it detects a silence.
Now we have two registered users who can call each to each. The Command Line Interface (CLI) can be access by typing in Linux: safe_asterisk and then the asterisk "r"
Remember to type reload in CLI every time you change a file in Asterisk.
For information how to make the configurations in the Asterisk's configuration files please read our tutorial about the Configuring IP Phones for use with Asterisk
So, when you open the X-Lite phone where user "ivan" is registered and call number 4321 the other user - "test" on the other pc will be called. Here is what will you see in CLI when doing this.
