I want a participant to join the session via phone...
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polite-oil-10264
09/22/2025, 9:20 AMI want a participant to join the session via phone and interact with the other participants in the session
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tall-airline-16756
09/22/2025, 9:20 AMThanks for reaching out, Yassine. I'm an AI assistant and I'm here to help. Give me a moment while I research this topic.
tall-airline-16756
09/22/2025, 9:21 AMI’m glad you’re exploring how to let participants join a LiveKit session via phone! To make this happen, LiveKit offers a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) integration that connects traditional phone systems with WebRTC-based LiveKit rooms.
Here’s a friendly overview of how it works:
• Call Initiation: Phone users can dial a number linked to a LiveKit SIP trunk (for incoming calls), or LiveKit can place an outbound call to a phone number using the
CreateSIPParticipantp
polite-oil-10264
09/22/2025, 9:22 AMthere is a github example for createSipParticipant ?
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tall-airline-16756
09/22/2025, 9:22 AMI'm happy to share that there is indeed a GitHub example for the
CreateSIPParticipantivr-navigator Copy code
async def create_sip_participant(self, phone_number, room_name, identity, task):
"""Create a SIP participant using LiveKitAPI."""
print(f"Creating SIP participant for {phone_number} in room {room_name} with identity {identity}")
livekit_api = api.LiveKitAPI(self.host, self.api_key, self.api_secret)
try:
response = await livekit_api.sip.create_sip_participant(
api.CreateSIPParticipantRequest(
sip_trunk_id=current_app.config.get('SIP_TRUNK_ID'),
sip_call_to=phone_number,
room_name=room_name,
participant_identity=identity,
participant_name="SIP Caller",
participant_attributes={
"task": task,
}
)
)
print(f"Response: {response}")
await livekit_api.aclose()
return response
except Exception as e:
await livekit_api.aclose()
raise e