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.

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

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.