Need VOIP Service??
jimates:
@Jeff205
Make sure outbound calling from chat is enabled in your mail settings, see the pic below.
With that enabled and the Voice & Video plug in installed you can use the gmail credentials to make outbound calls from the Obi. For incoming calls you must have a Google Voice number associated with that same gmail account (and complete one call from gmail).
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and I am not able to have a dedicated GV number.
Also, I tried to remove my landline number from my OBi connected account and it won't let me
What do you mean you are not able to have a dedicated GV number?
Do you mean you tried to remove your landline from the GV account that is set up on your Obi?
Jeff205:
Quote from: RonR on March 10, 2011, 06:07:07 pm
The OBi110 is able to interface with Google Voice (via XMPP) such that no additional support, callbacks, whatever are needed. Simply access your Gmail account, make at least one Google Voce call from it, make sure the Google Chat forwarding phone is checked in Google Voice, and your Gmail username/password will make the Obi110 do the rest.
No, I have everything setup. RonR made the comment above regarding not having a landline for you GV account and I was simply saying that if you go the route he outlined above, then you don't have a dedicated GV number (you can make calls out, but not receive calls). And as an alternative test, I tried to remove my landline number from the GV account that is connected to my OBi (working and only using Chat) and it will not let me; therefore, you need a landline number of some sort associated to your GV account. Which means you would need some sort of landline, VOIP, SIP, etc. to get a GV number and receive incoming calls. Which is why I didn't understand RonR's comments.
I'm not trying to confuse the issue; just to understand because I want to drop my cable provider VOIP.
RonR:
If you have Googe / Google Voice / Gmail configured properly and have successfully made at least one outgoing call from your Gmail account through the dialpad there, you should have Google Chat listed in your Google Voice account as one of your forwarding phones (this Google Voice MUST be on the same login as your Gmail). Make sure it is selected and the OBi should work using your Gmail credentials.
With the OBi (or the dialpad in Gmail) you do not need to use a landlne number in your Google Voice forwarding phnones list to make or receive calls through the OBi. The old scheme of requiring a callback via a VoIP DID (IPKall, Sipgate, IPComms, etc.) is not required with the OBi.
jimates:
Yes, you have to have a physical phone to set up your Google Voice account. Google will not forward to SIP phones either so you can't use one of those.
If you do away with the cable provided phone you still can't remove it from the list.
The work around to removing the last phone from the account is to have someone else add it to their Google Voice account and then they can remove it completely.
Jeff205:
Quote from: RonR on March 10, 2011, 08:35:23 pm
The old scheme of requiring a callback via a VoIP DID (IPKall, Sipgate, IPComms, etc.) is not required with the OBi.
Right, I understand that, you don't have to USE the landline number, but you need it to set it up.
@jimates: I didn't think about having someone else add it. That would work because I did it by accident when I found out you can only have two GV numbers associated to one landline.
Okay, so what are my options for dropping my cable provider? Can I not use Vitelity, Call Centric, or (now I see on this forum) Voipmyway? I'm new to this, so I don't always understand the specifics. Isn't my cable provider simply a VOIP and once I setup new service I can change that number in GV?
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