Allow only calls to Google Voice to be accepted at CallCentric?
Taoman:
Quote from: SteveInWA on July 15, 2016, 07:14:23 pm
A bit OT, but another great tool for blocking calls to smartphones is the "Hiya" app (it was formerly known as "Whitepages", but I guess millennials have never seen a paper phone book, so they had to change the name). It uses a combination of third party data broker information and the FCC and FTC spam caller lists. It's extremely effective.
Agreed. That app keeps getting better and better. The cynic in me wonders when it will start being ad driven and you'll have to pay to remove the ads.
SteveInWA:
Quote from: Ember1205 on July 15, 2016, 07:05:19 pm
CC allows me to have the phone book, and I can import phone books instead of manually typing things in. I've even found a script to auto-download my GV Contacts to a CSV file, but am finding absolutely nothing in the way of a similar script to auto-upload the resulting CSV file.
My hope would be to ultimately achieve an ideal with being able to ONLY route calls through CC if the users is in my Allowed phone book, directly blocking numbers that I've pointedly shut down, and everyone else just sort of sits in limbo and then goes to voicemail. By adding a number in GV to the Allowed list, and it syncing over to CC, updates would be reasonably quick and very easy. It's this last piece that I haven't found any sort of solution for as of yet.
Maybe we could all hit CC up with a feature request to allow the CC system to read our contacts directly out of our Google accounts. :)
You don't need a script to export the contacts used by Google Voice. Google Voice uses the same overall Google Contacts system as Gmail and Calendar. You can simply go to Gmail, click the word "Gmail" under "Google" on the left, select "Contacts", which takes you to this page: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#contacts and then click the "More" button and select "Export". The main difficulty with this is that it creates a messy CSV file, that you would then have to manipulate with some Excel smarts to turn it into the format that Callcentric's phone book import function expects.
Google does have an API that allows third parties to access your Google Contacts and sync them to some other destination. That's what Obihai uses to import Google Contacts directly to the OBi IP phones' address books.
Taoman:
Quote from: Ember1205 on July 15, 2016, 07:05:19 pm
The TrueCNAM SPAM ratings for all of these numbers is "Low". Is there someplace we can click a link or submit a report to get the probability rating raised? Because all of my issues are with numbers that are being classified as "Low", I hadn't yet put in the SPAM rating based treatment, but I guess I should. :)
Well that sucks. Really makes me wonder of Nomorobo would have blocked them. You really should try using NMR. I'd rather put up with a single ring than being bugged by telespammers.
Yes, place your mouse cursor over "Low" and it magically turns into Report. You can then report that it's spam and also leave a comment.
SteveInWA:
Quote from: Taoman on July 15, 2016, 07:17:54 pm
Quote from: SteveInWA on July 15, 2016, 07:14:23 pm
A bit OT, but another great tool for blocking calls to smartphones is the "Hiya" app (it was formerly known as "Whitepages", but I guess millennials have never seen a paper phone book, so they had to change the name). It uses a combination of third party data broker information and the FCC and FTC spam caller lists. It's extremely effective.
Agreed. That app keeps getting better and better. The cynic in me wonders when it will start being ad driven and you'll have to pay to remove the ads.
I wondered about their business model, too. I suspect that they use your calling history to help scrub their databases. Just a guess, though.
Ember1205:
The script to auto-download would be one half of the final "solution" with the second half being the upload to CC. My ideal would be to have someone new call, add their number via the GV app on my phone to my "Allowed Callers" group, and within 15 minutes that change would be synced to CC. The next time they call, they'd be put through directly instead of any Call Treatments or other things manipulating the call.
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