VoIP: OS X: App Telephone: Making Voice calls using SIP application Telephone and FirtzBox 7390 (OS 06.05)

Configuring a MAC SIP Software to use FritzBox from AVM is a no-brainer.

Today I was testing a couple of new features of 10.10 and iOS 8 and suddenly I felt the urge to finally try to make phone calls through our quite recent change in telecommunication. 

Here every provider is getting rid of the classic analogue telephone and all calls are through either DSL or Cable.

Interesting enough my provider uses VoIP (G.711 in both directions) and they provide me with one of the most flexible platform on Earth -> AVMs 7390. This box does nearly everything possible (not true) and it learns constantly new stuff. (It's not the fastest and the GUI is not really a strong point. But they try and they have a very strong technical background and expose more details to a regular user than most others; or they did about 10 years ago).

It's a two step process:

• Create a telephone config on FritzBox
• Create an account in your SIP software of choice

First you need to create a WLAN/LAN phone on FritzBox (I could not manage to get the GUI in English, not even in chrome using the translate option :((

• Log into the box using fritz.box
• Click on Telefonie
• Click on Telefoniegeräte
• On the right side Choose Neues Gerät einrichten
• Choose the first option "Telefon" and click on Weiter
• Choose LAN/WLAN 
• Specify a Name for your Device and click on Weiter
• Now it will tell you the registrar (most probably is fritz.box)
• It will show you your user name, which is automatically selected (in my case 622)
• Choose a password and click Weiter
• Choose your telephone number that you want your calls to originate from and then click on Weiter
• Choose which numbers to pick up (usually any) then click on Weiter
• It will show you a summary and then you have to click Übernehmen to finish configuring

Now to the MAC OS X Config:

Ok, I was looking for a free SIP Software, which I found in Telephone. After installation from AppStore on 10.10 I started it and it wanted 4 parameters:

Full Name: Whatever you like

Domain: Must be fritz.box (or whatever you have configured you FritzBox to be)

User Name: This is the Telephone (This is created was created on the FritzBox just before)

Password: Password specified for the telephone on the FritzBox

Telephone has a simple interface with access to your address book and it just works. Done within a few minutes and worked the first time.

Here is the page from AppStore. He should actually have charged .99 cents.