send incoming SIP calls to Google Voicemail with OBi202

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Beaker:
I'm looking for a way to have incoming calls go to my Google Voice account -- the intention would be to use GV primarily for its voicemail capabilities, rather than a directly-dialed number.

In my OBi202 I have setup SP1 with my primary SIP provider, and SP2 with GV. In my inbound call route on SP1 I have tried the following to bridge the call:

...{SP2(12125551212);d=10}

where 12125551212 is my own GV number (ie. my GV dialing itself). (The "d=10" delays the action in order to allow calls to first be picked up by other rules in the inbound call route.

Unfortunately all this does is reach my message retrieval directly, as Google detects that the call is coming from the same GV number. Nor does it matter if I change the Google setting to disable "Direct access to voicemail when calling your Google number from this phone" (under the "Google Chat" phone settings).

I realize I could just forward to GV over the SIP account, however this would send the call through PTSN rather than using the OBi's capability to bridge the call digitally. And having tried it, there was no success getting the CID to be carried across.

Any ideas, or is this even possible?

Much appreciated.

Felix:
you want GV calls to go straight to voicemail, right? then why set up OBi for GV at all? if there are no endpoints that register for GV (browser, OBi, smartphone client) - the call will go to voicemail.

Or I misunderstood the question?

hwittenb:
GoogleVoice has a help page on sending all calls to voicemail:
http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115106

They say setup "Do Not Disturb" on the GV number tied to the voicemail.

If you forward the call directly from your sip account or thru the OBi bridging the call will go thru the PSTN unless you bridge the call using a 2d Google Voice account setup on the OBi.

Beaker:
My "true" phone number -- the one that people call me on -- is with my SIP-based VoIP provider, not with Google Voice. It's set up on SP1 on my OBi. What I'm hoping to do is forward calls from SP1 to my GV number on SP2.

Is there no way to use the OBi as bridge from SIP to GV internally/digitally, without forwarding across the PSTN? Or supposing I add a second GV number as hwittenb suggests, might something like this work in my SIP account's inbound call routes on SP1:

...{SP3($1>18025551212);d=10}

where SP3 is the 2nd GV account, and the phone number called is that of the 1st GV account. I've added the "$1>" to attempt to pass the incoming caller ID through.

azrobert:
If you use GV to bridge a call you will receive the GV callerid and not the original incoming call callerid.

If you want to pass the callerid through the service you use must support spoofing and GV does not.

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