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

Watcher Information¶

• Contacts that have subscribed to our presence are rendered in the 'New Contact Requests' group that is rendered on top of the contacts list. Right click or dragging the contact can be used to allow or deny the request. Blocked contacts are displayed in the Blocked group.
• Active watchers are shown in Status -> People Watching My Presence Activity menu

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.

Note¶

Presence note can be typed in the text area right to own icon

Status¶

Presence status can be changed from the main GUI and Status menu. Last combination of Presence state and note are saved in the history build at the end of the menu.

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 in PIDF.

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 contacts present in the contacts list is used to update each 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.