Google Contacts and my landline phone
SteveInWA:
At this point, you are asking basic how-to questions that have been thoroughly discussed here on this forum, or on the Google Voice Help Forum. I don't mind helping people troubleshoot, but you can learn a lot from just reading on your own.
1: I don't understand what you mean. You can either answer a call via Google Hangouts on a laptop/desktop computer or on an Android or iOS mobile device, or you can answer the call on the telephone plugged into your OBi.
2: You can't do that unless you set up a Callcentric inbound number, and then tell Google Voice to call you on that number. I explained this in my first reply above.
Google Voice Help Center: https://support.google.com/voice/#topic=1707989
Hangouts Help Center: https://support.google.com/hangouts?hl=en&authuser=0#topic=6386410
Standroid:
Quote from: SteveInWA on June 09, 2016, 01:56:04 pm
Get a free or paid inbound telephone number (DID number) from a SIP VoIP service provider like Callcentric. Add and verify that number on your Google Voice account's settings page. Remove the check mark next to Google Chat, and add a check mark next to your SIP DID. Provision the Callcentric number on one of your OBi's SP slots. Now, inbound calls will route through Callcentric, which will also give your Caller ID name and (for a small fee) 911 service. You will be able to select this DID number when using GV's click-to-call function.
Is the "small fee" you mention just the monthly charge for 911 service or are there charges from Callcentric for each incoming call?
drgeoff:
Quote from: Standroid on June 14, 2016, 06:37:43 am
Quote from: SteveInWA on June 09, 2016, 01:56:04 pm
Get a free or paid inbound telephone number (DID number) from a SIP VoIP service provider like Callcentric. Add and verify that number on your Google Voice account's settings page. Remove the check mark next to Google Chat, and add a check mark next to your SIP DID. Provision the Callcentric number on one of your OBi's SP slots. Now, inbound calls will route through Callcentric, which will also give your Caller ID name and (for a small fee) 911 service. You will be able to select this DID number when using GV's click-to-call function.
Is the "small fee" you mention just the monthly charge for 911 service or are there charges from Callcentric for each incoming call?
http://www.callcentric.com/dids/free_phone_number
Standroid:
Quote from: SteveInWA on June 09, 2016, 01:56:04 pm
Get a free or paid inbound telephone number (DID number) from a SIP VoIP service provider like Callcentric. Add and verify that number on your Google Voice account's settings page. Remove the check mark next to Google Chat, and add a check mark next to your SIP DID.
OK, my inbound Google Voice calls are forwarding to my OBi202, my TMobile phone and ALSO all of my three Android devices when they have a wifi connection. I like that. Before I execute the next step of adding Callcentric to the puzzle I need another point clarified.
When I UNcheck Google Chat will that be the end of the forwarding to my three Android devices? Aren't they receiving the calls by virtue of Google Chat?
Thanks for your patience,
Stan
SteveInWA:
Quote from: Standroid on June 15, 2016, 04:31:57 pm
Quote from: SteveInWA on June 09, 2016, 01:56:04 pm
Get a free or paid inbound telephone number (DID number) from a SIP VoIP service provider like Callcentric. Add and verify that number on your Google Voice account's settings page. Remove the check mark next to Google Chat, and add a check mark next to your SIP DID.
OK, my inbound Google Voice calls are forwarding to my OBi202, my TMobile phone and ALSO all of my three Android devices when they have a wifi connection. I like that. Before I execute the next step of adding Callcentric to the puzzle I need another point clarified.
When I UNcheck Google Chat will that be the end of the forwarding to my three Android devices? Aren't they receiving the calls by virtue of Google Chat?
Thanks for your patience,
Stan
Let's clarify: you describe forwarding Google Voice calls to your Android devices. There are two ways to do that: If an Android device is a smartphone, then you can forward calls from Google Voice to that smartphone's telephone number, just as you would would forward to any telephone number. This uses your smartphone's regular voice telephone network connection, not WiFi.
If the Android device is not a telephone, then you can install the two Hangouts apps for Android ("Hangouts" and "Hangouts Dialer"). Google Voice forwards to any/all Hangouts clients, at the same time, as long as the Hangouts client a) has some sort of internet data connection, b) is signed into the correct Google account that hosts your GV number, and c) you've enabled the setting on that particular Hangouts client to ring on inbound calls. Hangouts operates independently of the old Google Chat system that is used by OBi devices. There are no settings on Google Voice that control forwarding to Hangouts.
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