Add Dial-In capabilities to your Agora Video SDK Integration

We’ve received many requests from our developer community to support PSTN calling in the Agora Video SDK. We are happy to announce our partnership with SignalWire. SignalWire is on a mission to enable developers with easy to use advanced communications features. We, at Agora, strongly resonated this message as it is very similar to the Agora mission within the Video space. With this partnership, Agora developers are able to add PSTN dial-in to their integration of the Agora Video / Voice SDK, with no additional code required.

Prerequisites

• Agora.io Developer Account with enabled APP ID
• SignalWire Developer Account
• Demo application (find them here)

Let’s Get Started

For this demo integration, I will be using the One-To-One Web demo application. First, open up the Agora Dashboard and copy an Agora App ID to your clipboard and paste it in your demo environment. Keep this environment open for now, we’ll be back to test the integration.

SignalWire Setup

Inside your SignalWire dashboard, navigate to the Integrations section. Click the “Connect to Agora” button. Add a name for your Agora Integration and the same App ID as the demo application. Click the Connect button to confirm your Agora connection.

If you haven’t already, purchase a phone number using SignalWire. Once you have purchased the number, open the Phone Settings, and change the “Handle Calls Using” option to “an Agora Connector” and choose the newly created Agora Connection. Lastly, set a channel name to allow the SignalWire number to be routed to the proper channel.

Run Demo Environment

Now, head back over to the One-To-One demo application and join the same channel you entered in your SignalWire dashboard. Once you have successfully joined the channel, call your SignalWire number and just like that, you’re connected to the Agora Network!