How do I set up SIP voice calling in Empathy?

Question

I would like to use Empathy for Internet voice chat, but I do not see an option under the Empathy Accounts menu to create a SIP account.

How do I set up Internet voice calling in Empathy?

Solution 1

In 13.04 (and presumably 12.10), telepathy relies on rakia instead of sofiasip, and you need the Ubuntu account SIP module. In other words :

sudo apt-get install telepathy-rakia account-plugin-sip

Solution 2

According to https://live.gnome.org/Empathy/FAQ#How_can_I_connect_to_my_SIP_account.3F you need to install the telepathy-sofiasip from the Ubuntu Software Center.

Then, you will be able to add SIP accounts to Empathy from the list of protocols in the Empathy Accounts dialog.

Comments

[Admin]

I think you need telepathy-sofiasip package installed

[Mike]

This was a correct answer, but 12.10 took away the accounts dialog and replaced it with something that doesn't seem to detect telepathy-sofiasip

[Pierre-Antoine]

I also have a problem with 12.10: I was able to setup my SIP account from the account list, but when I try to start a call, I have to select a contact, I can not enter a sip: URL directly. On the other hand, the only available contacts are my google-chat contacts, and I can not add contacts to the SIP account :-(

[ThankYee]

This still works on 18.04

[Andyc]

On Ubuntu 20.04 there is apparently no account-plugin-sip anymore, but if you only install telepathy-rakia it will pull the needed dependencies automagically for you and then it works (you can configure a SIP service).