interesting, voip dot ms now has their own branded softphone app for Android and iOS...

https://wiki.voip.ms/article/VoIP.ms_Softphone

given the state of their API and the state of SIP calling on modern Android, I gotta be honest that I'm not super excited about this. I find my physical wifi-based VOIP phone way more user-friendly for phone calls, and thankfully 98% of my messaging happens in Signal so I don't have to deal with SIP texting much. there's a third-party app for that on #VoipMS but it's weird because their API is weird.

#SIP #VOIP #DIY

looks like #VoipMS still doesn't really handle group texts well at all in 2025. not great.

however, it's $1.10 a month for their metered lines, which is a big part of why I'm a customer ... that and the fact that I am one of the very few people who does nearly all their messaging on Signal

#VoipMS softphone app for iOS and Android 🧐

https://wiki.voip.ms/article/VoIP.ms_Softphone

#voip #sip

A little bit about some recent #VOIP adventures, featuring Hamshack Hotline, Hams over IP, NZSIP from DVNZ, and moving my ATT land line phone to voip.ms .

https://vielmetti.typepad.com/w8emv/2025/07/voip-update-2025-07-14-hams-over-ip-hamshack-hotline-nzsip-and-porting-my-home-phone-line.html

Please don't let anyone ever tell you that this is "not really ham radio" when there is a ham at each end of a conversation!

#hh #hoip #nzsip #dvnz #voipms

🙄 Does anyone out there have knowledge/experience with using voip.ms and Zoiper (or similar)?

#Voipms #Zoiper

but thankfully there are parts of my #surfhosting tech stack which are fairly settled already:

OS: #LinuxMint; #Debian (with #LXQt if needed, or #BunsenLabs); #OpenWRT

Virtualization: #Proxmox

Hardware: refurb "1-liter" #1LPC business #miniPC from HP, Dell, Lenovo, with mid to high end CPU

Network: #GLiNet and #FriendlyElec #NanoPi routers / network-attached devices; #PiVPN

Phone: #VoipMS with dedicated SIP phone, plus softphone apps for limited use

Power: 90% of everything powered from compact #GaN USB-PD power supplies; 24/7 gear backed by ~15 year old consumer UPSes with drop-in LFP 12V batteries

@purpleidea the unannounced changes to services people are actually using is by far the worst part of the #voipms experience

For anyone using CHAN_SIP with #voipms, whatever unannounced migration/configuration change they just did (around ~12h ago) broke all those connections for inbound traffic (to your asterisk/freepbx boxes) only.

If you were affected by this, please comment and let me know.

despite the firmware bugs - which do seem to be getting fixed over time - having a physical VOIP phone like the Grandstream WP826 makes using a generic VOIP carrier like Voip dot ms so much less painful than software phones can be.

that's pretty important, especially when you realize that with #VoipMS you can have a phone like for about $2/month and $0.01/minute of talk time.

@vfrmedia I tried to set out doing a PBX for myself once and my brain just could not handle the learning curve with the degree of sensory overload I experience in daily life at the moment 🙁

one thing that's nice about #voipms, you can set up a ton of PBX-ish functions in their web panel ... what I need, I think (hope?) is a device whose one job it is to take phone calls, which doesn't have other stuff going on (such as being viewed by Android as just another app to be managed) ... it really was such a decline when native SIP calling functionality was stripped from Android/Lineage