.TH TELEPATHY-RING "4" "February 2011" "Telepathy" "D-Bus services"
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.SH NAME
telepathy-ring \- Telepathy connection manager for GSM
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fB@libexecdir@/telepathy\-ring\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION

\fBtelepathy\-ring\fR implements the Telepathy D-Bus specification for
the GSM and UMTS, allowing Telepathy clients like
.BR empathy (1)
to place mobile calls and send or receive SMSs. It uses 
.BR ofonod (8)
for interfacing with modems.

.PP
\fBtelepathy\-ring\fR 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.

.SH OPTIONS
There are no command-line options.

.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP
\fBRING_DEBUG\fR=\fItype\fR
May be set to "all" for full debug output, or various undocumented options
(which may change from release to release) to filter the output.

.TP
\fBMODEM_DEBUG\fR=\fItype\fR
May be set to "all" for full debug output from oFono interface, or
various undocumented options (which may change from release to release)
to filter the output.

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

.TP
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/ ,
.BR mission-control-5 (1)
.BR empathy (1)
.BR ofonod (8)