Google Voice beta and the future of Obihai support
jdefgts1:
When Google announced its voice calling wifi beta test one of the announced limitations was that Obihai devices would not work with wifi calling enabled. It appears that outgoing calls can still be placed through my Obi 200 device. Incoming calls to my Google voice number are not forwarded to the same phone however.
My question is fairly simple. Will Polycom be making any changes to allow the Obi 200 to accept calls made to wifi calling enabled Google voice accounts?
GPz1100:
It's not an obi/polycom limitation that's preventing the inbound calls. The new gv wifi beta uses sip protocol to communicate with the google mothership. Obi uses xmpp protocol. While both are used for audio, they are totally different. The issue is, at the moment, sip takes priority over xmpp at google. It would be up to google to implement a solution which allows forwarding to both (at the same time?). Obi and other xmpp clients (asterisk/motif), simonics gateway, etc, are at google's mercy for making this work.
Give this a read to learn about sip/xmpp differences - https://www.onsip.com/blog/combining-sip-and-xmpp .
SteveInWA:
Quote from: jdefgts1 on April 27, 2018, 06:26:44 am
When Google announced its voice calling wifi beta test one of the announced limitations was that Obihai devices would not work with wifi calling enabled. It appears that outgoing calls can still be placed through my Obi 200 device. Incoming calls to my Google voice number are not forwarded to the same phone however.
My question is fairly simple. Will Polycom be making any changes to allow the Obi 200 to accept calls made to wifi calling enabled Google voice accounts?
This has already been built into the planned roll-out. Everything will simply work, seamlessly. No worries.
drgeoff:
Quote from: GPz1100 on April 27, 2018, 08:55:14 am
It's not an obi/polycom limitation that's preventing the inbound calls. The new gv wifi beta uses sip protocol to communicate with the google mothership. Obi uses xmpp protocol.
All OBi devices include SIP so there should be no fundamental problem for OBi devices to work with the "new GV" when the relevant people get around to doing it?
SteveInWA:
I'll post more details very soon. Bottom line, nearly everyone will be very happy with the solution, and no, I am not posting a Trump Tweet.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page