Dialing a SIP number with TWINKLE client, from Ubuntu Linux Terminal. Is it possible?

Question

I am having a number of portable touchscreen computers with Ubuntu Linux 10.04LTS Lucid Lynx, the processor architecture is "i386". I used TWINKLE VOIP client and through SIP i am able to call to those units from IP Phone and similarly i am also able to call the IP phone from the Touchscreen computers as well.

The problem is-- I need a keyboard every-time i need to dial a number. There is no onscreen keyboard feature.

Is it possible to dial a sip number directly from the Linux terminal?

If it is possible then i will incorporate the script within a small GUI application, so that the user will call numbers with my GUI application's touch interface.

Answer 1

If you check out the man page for twinkle ( man twinkle ), online version http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/karmic/man1/twinkle.1.html you will see that there is both an option to specify the called party from the command line, and also a CLI interface

When you run twinkle, you can add -call to dial a number.

By contrast -c starts a CLI interface (presumably with options for dialling numbers, answering etc, but I don't have it on this machine).

Another useful switch is -cmd which lets you add a series of CLI commands to run. These can be used for instance to answer an incoming call.