# Gateway between Galene and SIP

**URL:** https://forum.yunohost.org/t/gateway-between-galene-and-sip/37190
**Category:** Apps
**Tags:** galene, english
**Created:** [June 6, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/gateway-between-galene-and-sip/37190 "2025-06-06T13:02:07Z")
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### Author: ![jch](https://forum.yunohost.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/4da419/32.png) [@jch](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/jch)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/gateway-between-galene-and-sip/37190/1 "2025-06-06T13:02:07Z")

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Hi,

I’ve just finished writing a proof-of-concept gateway between Galene and SIP. I’ll be grateful if people could test with their SIP provider.

[GitHub - jech/galene-sip: Gateway between Galene and the SIP protocol](https://github.com/jech/galene-sip)

For those who don’t know, Galene is a videoconferencing system that is somewhat popular among Yunohost users. SIP is a protocol that was designed (badly) for carrying telephone conversations over the Internet. It is possible to self-host a SIP server, which allows having conversations over the Internet from “softphone” software running on your computer or smartphone. There are also a number of cheap SIP providers who bridge the telephone network with SIP, which makes it reasonably easy to have for example a French phone number when you live abroad.

Therefore, galene-sip allows joining a Galene conversation by simply making a phone call, which can be useful when you need to have a discussion with users who don’t have access to a web browser. However, the subset of SIP that is generally implemented by providers has poor security (it is trivially easy to hijack a conversation), and hence I recommend sticking to Galene’s native protocol whenever possible.