Restcomm – How to use Olympus with Restcomm

This tutorial will show you how to use Olympus WebRTC client to take advantage of Restcomm’s telephony features. Olympus deprecates our former WebRTC client described at http://www.telestax.com/livechat-and-video-call-with-restcomm/

A Restcomm installation. Please check http://docs.telestax.com/installing-restcomm-from-github/ on how to install Restcomm

First, let’s see how we can make a call to Restcomm and hear a simple announcement

Open a browser to http://<restcomm ip>:8080/olympus and Sign in as Alice:
Olympus will request access to Microphone and Camera and then will present the main screen
When the main screen is presented:
– click on the Contacts icon (1)
– click on number ‘1235’ (2)
– click dial to make a call to Restcomm and hear the announcement associated with ‘1235’ (3)

You could do the same to call any Restomm number by either selecting one from the list or Adding a new one in Contacts.

Say your friend Bob has logged in to Olympus and you want to talk:

Use a separate tab to login to Olympus as shown before but this time Sign in as Bob, not Alice (for this tutorial we will be using just a separate tab in the same browser, but a more fitting example would be another user from a remote machine
After you sign in as Bob:
– click on the Contacts icon (1)
– pick Alice (2)
– click on the video call icon (3):
At that point Olympus will start to ring in Alice’s window:
Pick up from Alice you are ready to talk!

After you sign in as Bob:
– click on the Contacts icon (1)
– pick Alice (2)
– and click on the chat icon (3):
Do the same in the Alice window and pick Bob to chat with
From now on all messages from Alice will be sent to Bob and the other way around:

Give it a try and share your experience with the rest of the Restcomm community! Here are some additional resources: