Presence¶

Subscriptions¶

Contacts have two properties that can changed in Edit Contact Panel Subscriptions section:

1. Subscribe to Contact's Presence Information
 1. Allow Contact to see my Presence Information

Published Information¶

The following information is published by Blink:

Internet address: sip:tijmen@test.sip2sip.info
  Service: SID-040aafba-3bb5-4209-b6ad-27f513726e8a
      Timestamp: 2012-09-18T14:47:53.535157+02:00
      Note: I am happy
      Basic status: Open
      Extended status: Available
      Location: Netherlands/Meppel
      Contact: user@test.sip2sip.info
      Icon: https://xcap.test.sipthor.net/xcap-root/org.openmobilealliance.pres-content/users/sip:user@test.sip2sip.info/oma_status-icon/index
      Media capabilities: Audio, Chat, File Transfer, Screen Sharing
      Device: 040aafba-3bb5-4209-b6ad-27f513726e8a (Majoor)
          Hostname: Majoor
          User Agent: Blink Pro 2.0.0 (MacOSX)
          Current time: 14:48 (UTC+2)
      Device is active
          Idle threshold: 600 seconds

Location can be disabled per account in Presence section of account preferences.

Icon¶

User icon is uploaded to XCAP server using OMA pres-content application, replicated among multiple Blink instances and location of icons storage URL on XCAP server is published.

Offline Presence¶

In status menu, one can change its presence state and also an offline state when Blink is offline. This is done using pidf-manipulation XCAP application.

Subscribed Presence Information¶

Presence information received from the SIP URIs of a contacts present in the contacts list is used to update the Contact tile with

Status icon overlaid on botton right of user icon, indicating away, busy, extended-away or available
Rectangular presence indicator on right side of the tile to provide a quick overview about availability
Presence note is rendered on second line, multiple notes and pending authorizations are rotated every 10 seconds
User icon is retrieved and updated when necessary from URL advertised by user

Selecting Show Presence Information menu item from contextual contact menu show a panel with detailed information, not all information may have been rendered in the GUI.

Sessions¶

When subscribed to Presence, if information is received, the contextual menu of each contact is updated with the possibility of starting a session to a specific device. This requires the remote device to use GRUU.

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