I just downloaded the trial Uplink and started to play with it. Everything works great for me but serious problem with multiple calls.
You will already know about the issue of a second call will place the first one on hold (which cuts the audio on that first call).
Taking one call at a time using the Uplink is fine with me, so I set the number of simultaneous calls down to 1 and restarted Uplink.
After that, took one incoming call which went over to SIP.
Attempted a second call into skype, which caused the client to display the usual Anwser Reject etc box, and it did not anwser that call - my first call was safe.
Now heres the bug:-
Hang up the second attempted call and try again.
It anwsers!
I guess that the way the Uplink is doing it, is setting the "Auto Answer" flag in skype. So when number of active calls = 1 (as per my setting), it sets the auto anwser off. I guess that it turns it back on after a call finishes. That will explain why the unanwsered call manages to fool the Uplink into switching the auto answer back on (because of the hangup - regardless of the fact it was not anwswered at all).
Something that puzzles me is that why offer an option to make multiple calls when it is simply using a virtual sound card - if it COULD force skype to take more than one call at a time, surely it will be "conferencing" these into the same "sound card (Uplink)" which isn't necessarily what people want?
Now, this is all very well, but I am looking to use this product to take incoming calls into an amateur live radio show hosted on the internet, and in Second Life.
I can't realy use it, if it disconnects an existing call in progress... Especially if the second attempted call does not have priority over that call at all...
Anyway - does anyone have any responses from support tickets to this at all?
Or maybe NCH is using a cut down version of skype that doesn't do this?
Uplink single AND multiple incoming calls *BUG*
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Hi there,
I just downloaded the trial Uplink and started to play with it. Everything works great for me but serious problem with multiple calls.
You will already know about the issue of a second call will place the first one on hold (which cuts the audio on that first call).
Taking one call at a time using the Uplink is fine with me, so I set the number of simultaneous calls down to 1 and restarted Uplink.
After that, took one incoming call which went over to SIP.
Attempted a second call into skype, which caused the client to display the usual Anwser Reject etc box, and it did not anwser that call - my first call was safe.
Now heres the bug:-
Hang up the second attempted call and try again.
It anwsers!
I guess that the way the Uplink is doing it, is setting the "Auto Answer" flag in skype. So when number of active calls = 1 (as per my setting), it sets the auto anwser off. I guess that it turns it back on after a call finishes. That will explain why the unanwsered call manages to fool the Uplink into switching the auto answer back on (because of the hangup - regardless of the fact it was not anwswered at all).
Something that puzzles me is that why offer an option to make multiple calls when it is simply using a virtual sound card - if it COULD force skype to take more than one call at a time, surely it will be "conferencing" these into the same "sound card (Uplink)" which isn't necessarily what people want?
Now, this is all very well, but I am looking to use this product to take incoming calls into an amateur live radio show hosted on the internet, and in Second Life.
I can't realy use it, if it disconnects an existing call in progress... Especially if the second attempted call does not have priority over that call at all...
Anyway - does anyone have any responses from support tickets to this at all?
Or maybe NCH is using a cut down version of skype that doesn't do this?
Many thanks,
Winne Woodget,
Milk N Kookies Radio Show