Trixbox - The Easy Tutorial

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Once the instructions of the trixbox server tutorial have been correctly followed, our trixbox server should be configured with three extensions or phone numbers.

SIP Softphones are used on three laptops, two Windows and one Linux.
A softphone is a phone installed on a computer while a hardphone is a physical phone similar to a standard phone. Depending on their possibilities, both phone types are capable of using VoIP.

You can find a listing of Softphones on the Wikipedia or on the voip-info.org web sites.
In our tutorial, we chose the following softphones: Wengophone, Twinkle and X-Lite.

Here is a summary of each laptop:

Name
Mikado
Bambou
Babar Extension
201
202
203 OS
Windows
Linux
Windows Softphone
WengoPhone
Twinkle
X-Lite Open source
Yes
Yes
No Free
Yes
Yes
Yes

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Let's configure the three softphones:

1. WENGOPHONE 2. TWINKLE 3. X-LITE 4. TRIXBOX CHECKS

1. WENGOPHONE

Download Wengophone, install and start it.

Click on "Configure a New Profile"
wengophone login

Select "Other (for power users only)"
wengophone configure

Set the "Configure your SIP profile" window as follows:

Account name: Mikado
login / username: 201
Password: 12345
SIP Domain / Realm: local
Display name: Mikado
Proxy: 192.168.1.222

Then click on "Connect"
wengophone profile

The two little blue screens at the right bottom corner show that the softphone is now authenticated with Asterisk.

wengophone logged

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2. TWINKLE

Twinkle is a softphone available on Linux platforms only.
Download and install it.
On Ubuntu or Debian, you just have to use the following command:

#apt-get install twinkle
Launch the softphone:

#twinkle
In the two first windows:

Click on "Ok" and "Wizard"

Choose a profile name.

In the "User profile" window, enter the following settings:

Choose "Other" in the "SIP service provider" scrolling list.
Your name: Bambou
User name*: 202
Domain*: 192.168.1.222
Authentication name: 202
Password: 12345

Click on "Ok"

Click on "Ok" to access the system settings.

In the system settings window, check "Bambou" as the default user profile.

Click on "Ok"

The softphone automatically gets authenticated with Asterisk.

You can force the registration as follows:

Registration -> Register

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3. X-LITE

Download X-Lite and install it.

Click on the white triangle.

Select "SIP Account Settings ...".
In the "SIP Accounts" window:

Click on the "Add..." button.

Configure the "Properties of Account1" window as follows:

Display name: Babar
User name: 203
Password: 12345
Domain: local
Check "Register with domain and receive incoming calls"
Select proxy - Address: 192.168.1.222

Click on "Ok".

The profile is displayed in the "SIP Accounts" window.

Click on "Close".
The softphone is now authenticated by Asterisk.

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4. CHECKS

In the main trixbox platform, you can check the SIP peers status:
Open your browser with the following path:

http://192.168.1.222/maint/

You can also get information about the SIP registrations as follows:

Select Asterisk -> "Asterisk Info"

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