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How to use your FlyNumber SIP account to make and receive calls on a PC

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Nader Jaber
Nader Jaber
Head Honcho @ FlyNumber
  • This post is outdated so you'll want to use this guide, it uses the new phone system and the zoiper or groundwire app for iOS/Android.

Grid screenshot with menu on left and modules connected to each other on the canvas

Here’s a great way to make and receive calls with your FlyNumber(s) using a free PC SIP phone/client.

This is also a great method to test your FlyNumber SIP account and make sure it registers successfully with our servers.

1.) Download a Sip client on your PC, here we’ll use the free Blink SIP client.

Screenshot for Blink website download section

2.) Setup a SIP account/device on your FlyNumber PBX/ Virtual Phone System, our full PBX guide can be found here.

You should first make sure your FlyNumber is pointed to the PBX from the My account > My FlyNumbers page. You then open your PBX panel and attach the “Phone number” module to the “Person module” ,then choose to create a New Device in the person module.

Screenshot of box showing credentials as it pertains to SIP account

3.) Enter your SIP credentials into the Blink software.

Go to Blink > Accounts > Add account …

Choose “Add an existing SIP account” and for SIP address use the credentials you pulled from the PBX panel. In this case the SIP address is [email protected] and your password is the password from the SIP device you created, NOT your FlyNumber account password.

Add account screen with the Blink app with various fields

4.) Go to Blink > Accounts > Manage accounts and click the “Media Tab” – check that PCMU is on top as this is the G711 ulaw codec we prefer.

Media settings screenshot with various settings

5.) Go to Blink > Preferences and then click the “Media” tab. Set the “sRTP Encryption” to Disabled

Screenshot of blink app preferences highlighting media and sRTP setting

You’re now ready to make and receive calls with the software, incoming calls should work right away and to make outgoing call just enter a number in the “Search Contacts or Enter Address “ field. You’re account will need funds in the prepaid balance as outgoing calls have a low per min rate.

Please don’t dial out with 00, 011,0 or + before the number. More info on the format to dial out here.

Screenshot of blink app listing recent calls and contacts as well as highlighting search box on top

Once your SIP Client/Phone is registered OK you’ll see the indicator in your person module turn green.

Grid screenshot with menu on left and modules connected to each other on the canvas

If you’re having trouble registering it could be your network or firewall. Please make sure you entered the info correctly, it’s case sensitive. Try to ping the SIP server from the same computer you’re trying to register from. In the above example I would ping 110.140475.sip.pbxww.com.

You can ping on a Windows PC by going to Start and entering “cmd” without the quotations. Then enter the command ping 110.1XXXX5.sip.pbxww.com . If it times out or there is a different error please contact us to take a look.