---
name: "telepathy-sofiasip"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "telepathy-sofiasip"
version: "0.6.3-1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/telepathy-sofiasip"
---

# telepathy-sofiasip(8)

Telepathy connection manager for SIP

## NAME

telepathy-sofiasip - Telepathy connection manager for SIP

## SYNOPSIS

**/usr/lib/telepathy/telepathy-sofiasip**

## DESCRIPTION

**telepathy-sofiasip** implements the Telepathy D-Bus specification for the Session Initiation Protocol, allowing Telepathy clients like [**empathy**(1)](/empathy/1.md) to connect to Voice over IP providers that implement SIP.

It is a D-Bus service which runs on the session bus, and should usually be started automatically by D-Bus activation. However, it might be useful to start it manually for debugging.

## OPTIONS

There are no command-line options.

## ENVIRONMENT

- **TPSIP\_DEBUG**=*type*

  May be set to "all" for full debug output, or various undocumented options (which may change from release to release) to filter the output.

- **TPSIP\_LOGFILE**=*filename*

  May be set to the name of a file to overwrite with log messages. The filename may be prefixed with **+** to append messages to an existing file instead of overwriting it.

- **TPSIP\_PERSIST**

  May be set to any value to avoid telepathy-sofiasip's usual automatic exit when there have been no connections for a few seconds.

- **TPORT\_LOG**

  May be set to any value to print all parsed SIP messages at the transport layer (this functionality is provided by the underlying Sofia-SIP library, which also offers various more specialized debugging options).

## SEE ALSO

*http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/*, [**empathy**(1)](/empathy/1.md)