Please Don't Forget To Blink!

Or... Installing Blink on Linux Mint 17.2 (32 bits)
This week because of a work project, I had to install one of those.
Can't even remember when was the last time I used one, we mostly moved to an all Skype ensemble, both at work as well as for personal use.
Way back when I was using soft-phones in Linux, the soft-phone that you had to use was Ekiga.
But that was years ago, so, after a bit of research, I've settled for Blink, which seemed rather nice and full featured.

Installation was pretty straight forward:

Created the repo:
sudo emacs /etc/apt/sources.list.d/blink.list

With this:
deb http://ag-projects.com/ubuntu trusty main

D'loaded and installed the repo GPG key:
wget http://download.ag-projects.com/agp-debian-gpg.key
sudo apt-key add agp-debian-gpg.key

Updated and installed Blink:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blink

stilgar > sudo apt-get install blink
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
g++ g++-4.8 libcurl3 libstdc++-4.8-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 python-application python-cjson python-dateutil
python-eventlib python-gnutls python-greenlet python-msrplib
python-sipsimple python-xcaplib x11vnc x11vnc-data
Suggested packages:
python-greenlet-doc python-greenlet-dev python-greenlet-dbg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
blink libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 python-application python-cjson
python-dateutil python-eventlib python-gnutls python-greenlet python-msrplib
python-sipsimple python-xcaplib x11vnc x11vnc-data
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Getting Ekiga up & running on Scientific Linux

It is not that hard, really...

You have to create a symlink once the install is done, in order to get the audio working (don't have a camera on my T60p to test that...)

 Unless you do that, you'll have no way of speaking, nor hearing anything while using Ekiga; all the audio devices are listed as SILENT (like that, with capital letters ;) )
Here are the steps, this is tested on a Scientific Linux 6.2 (32 bits) with all the updates installed as of today.

sudo yum install ekiga
cd /usr/lib/
sudo ln -s ptlib-2.6.5 2.6.5

D-Link DIR-601 & SIP problems

Last Friday got a new WiFi router, everything went really smooth when I switched routers, except for one thing, my SIP phone wasn't working.
I have a nice and really cheap Budge Tone 201, and after changing routers it stopped working, I was able to register via SIP to the Asterisk server with the Budge Tone, but I didn't hear anything once I made a call, nor the other party could hear me at all.
The Linux SIP softphone Ekiga -executed from my Ubuntu laptop- did work Ok, tho.

Upgraded the firmware from version:

Current Firmware Version  :  1.00NA
Current Firmware Date  :  Mon, 05 Oct 2009

To version:

Current Firmware Version :  1.02NA
Current Firmware Date :  Thu, 25 Nov 2010

Now the Budge Tone works A Ok and things seems to be just fine.

Ekiga accounts information

Sort of a continuation of this post.
The account info is stored on the file:

$HOME/.gconf/apps/ekiga/protocols/accounts_list

Or you can also edit those thru gconf-tool browsing to the key

/apps/ekiga/protocols/accounts_list

Adding SIP accounts on Ekiga (a solution)

I have a couple of SIP accounts from work, and on Linux usually use Ekiga as the client (a free, nice and easy going, no frills program).
Thing is I've noticed that there wasn't a simple way of adding accounts... Stupid, I know, but a bit of Google proved that I wasn't alone on the thing... At first thought that it was something related to Gnome Global Menu, but even tho after disabling it there is no option on the Accounts window, to add new accounts.
What I did was, using the Configuration Assistant create a fake (free) Ekiga and Ekiga Call Out account and then simpley edit those with the values of my work's accounts.
A couple of links on the problem:

Re: [Ekiga-list] No "Add" account button
No "Add" account button