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miniSIPServer updated and say goodbye to webRTC

miniSIPServer updated and say goodbye to webRTC

miniSIPServer V25 is updated to fix some bugs and refine system to be more stable. The most important change is that we cut ‘webRTC’ feature from this version and abover.

As we described in previous post, MSS webRTC feature can work with Chrome navigator. Chrome is upgraded to V48 and make some changes to webRTC and doesn’t consider compatibility with previous version. We think maybe webRTC is perfect for public network services, such as Google hangouts, but it is not suitable or flexible for small or middle size enterprise communication markets.

So we cut it from V25, and keep it in V24. If you are using webRTC feature, please keep your Chrome to V47 or lower versions.

IP address authorization

IP address authorization

This feature was merged to the latest V25 (build 20160126).

Some special SIP devices, for example embeded devices in automaticated system, don’t have full SIP capabilities, they can make or receive simple SIP calls without account and password authorization. They even cannot send REGISTER messages to MSS to update their own status.

Yep, we can configure them as “SIP trunk” in MSS. but it will lost several key features, such as ringing-group. In some scenarios, customers hope to ring all such devices together, so we have to treat them as “local users”.

To fit these requirements, we add “IP address authorization” in local user’s configuration. That means MSS will not require SIP phones/devices to register them firstly, and will not check their account and password if their messages are from specific or configured IP addresses. Please refer to below figure for more details.

IP address authorization
IP address authorization

By the way, we update openAPI document according to the latest V25. If you are interesting in it, please refer to openAPI document.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Happy new year! 2016 is coming!

We upgrade the latest LTS version to V24 and the latest stable version to V25. Hope it can be great in the new year!

Enjoy your holiday!

And enjoy our products when you back to work! 🙂

Refined SMTP library

Refined SMTP library

In voice mail feature, MSS need use SMTP library to send emails. Since MSS can embed Python script functions, it is easy to use Python-smtplib to send email. That’s what we done and it works well, we are satisfied with it.

But smtplib is too old ( in python 2.7) to fit some modem SMTP servers’ requirements. It also has a shortage. It is synchronous. That means it can block thread when sending a email, then its performance is poor and cannot fit our requirements in cloud system.

Something is changed, we want MSS to be better, so we develop a new SMTP library to send voice mails. This SMTP library is asynchronous and can work perfectly with most SMTP servers. And, it is written in C/C++ language.

We upgraded MSS V23 and cloud-MSS to replace python-smtplib with this new SMTP library.

Hope you can enjoy latest versions.

By the way, since MSS V23 has been released for several months and we got very better result, we think it is time to release new LTS version which is V24  and new stable version which is V25 in the end of this year or in the beginning of next year.

shared-appearance feature

shared-appearance feature

MSS V23 was released yesterday. The main feature of this version is “shared appearance”. In one number service, the SIP phones can subscribe others’s dialog status, and MSS will notify them with all kinds of busy signals: early, confirmed, terminated, and so on.

Please note that this feature requires SIP phones to have SUBSCRIBE/NOTIFY capabilities. If your phones cannot support these methods, this feature will be discard automatically.

You need configure nothing to enable this feature. So easy, right? Hope you can enjoy it!

conference call in one-number service

conference call in one-number service

We have updated V22 to support a special feature: conference call in one-number service. This feature is used in a classroom scenario:

Some students will be assigned with same number (of course, one number, remember?). Teacher will ask one of them to answer questions. During this process, other guys can pick up the call to join their discussion.

In MSS, the user who want to join call can dial “*74” to do that by default.

When developing this feature, we think about previous “virtual conference room” feature. We believe this feature is too complex to use and few people like it, so we decide to cut it from V22 and abover versions. In future, we will plan to develop a new three parties conference service.

miniSIPServer V21 released!

miniSIPServer V21 released!

V21 is released today to support a new service: one number, multi-devices.

This service can enable MSS to accept several SIP phones with same local user’s number and authorization. And for incoming calls, all these phones will be ringing at the same time.

“One number” service looks like “ring group” feature. The difference is that “one number” service permits several SIP phones to share same local user profile, but “ring group” service requires SIP phones configured with different user profiles.

Please refer to following document for more details about this feature:

http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/mss_services/one-number/index.html

By the way, Cloud-MSS has been upgraded to support this feature too.

Hope you can enjoy it!

miniSIPServer V20 released!

miniSIPServer V20 released!

Yesterday we released the latest miniSIPServer, V20! This version is focus on following items:

(1) Call park service refined.

In previous version, MSS can accept “unattended transfer” call to park the user’s previous call. This method works in most scenarios, but some SIP devices cannot do that because they don’t have “transfer” button to invoke “unattended transfer” call. For some customers, they are confused on how to invoke such call.

So we decide to refine this service. V20 can accept a new call to park previous call. That means customers can invoke a new call directly to “*70*1” to park their previous calls. That could be easy to understand and do such operation.

(2) openAPI refined.

In V20, we unified openAPI interfaces and inner web management systems. That means they are using the same inner interfaces now. In the openAPI document, we just list several interfaces, in fact openAPI has almost all interfaces now and can work as same as web management system. Customers can design their own web system based on openAPI interfaces.

Of course, we will keep refining openAPI document to make it clear to customers.