Nextcloud Talk Phone - Introduction, Sip-Bridge, dail-in & dail-out¶

Nextcloud Talk (browser, desktop app, mobile apps) and landline/mobile phones can interact in the following ways.

Prerequisites¶

• Have a SIP gateway available
• Set up SIP-bridge following this documentation

Meeting Dial-in¶

Functionality: From a phone, call a phone number to join a Talk call.

If the administrator set it up for the instance, and a moderator of a Talk conversation activated it (Conversation settings -> Meeting -> Phone and SIP-dail-in), you will see in the right sidebar, in the Details tab, something like this:

Dial-in information

+49 123 / 45678901

Meeting ID: 123 456 7890

Your PIN: 123 4567

Meeting Dial-out¶

Functionality: From an existing Talk conversation, call a phone number.

If the administrator set it up for the instance, you can call a phone number from a Talk conversation:

• open the right sidebar "participants" and type the phone number you want to call, click "Add phone number"
• start the call

Direct Dial-out/Call a phone number¶

Functionality: From Talk, call a phone number.

In the top left corner, click on the speech bubble and select "Call a phone number". Or on the home screen, click on the button "Call a phone number" at the top. After the call, you will be asked whether to keep or delete the conversation.

Direct Dial-in¶

Functionality: From a phone, call a phone number, the Talk client (web/desktop/mobile) of a Nextcloud user will ring.

see https://portal.nextcloud.com/article/Nextcloud-Talk/Nextcloud-Talk-Phone/Direct-Dial-in