As Google Voice merges with Hangouts, possible impact on Obi support?
Lavarock7:
Quote from: giqcass on May 24, 2013, 07:07:32 pm
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But… that costs money! :o And there's no reason to panic and go signing up with such a service just yet.
Actually Callcentric doesn't have to cost any money. I'm using it now and paying nothing. When you sign up for Callcentric use your real address but say you don't plan to use Callcentric in the US. Then you won't be forced to buy E911 and you won't be charged anything.
That is exactly what I did, say I was out of the country so no E-911. In reality, Hawaii is IN the country, but where I live, street addresses don't help much in finding the house. It is more like "go 3/4 mile down and make a left on the dirt road" type address.
I got a free NYC number and an INUM number and my cost is $0 through CallCentric. At some point I expect to give them actual paying business.
R_Chandra:
Quote from: Usually_Befuddled on May 24, 2013, 06:57:00 pm
Considering how Google recently eviscerated the Contacts support to the point I now need to use cut&paste to call; I'm hardly reassured.
That's not exactly necessary. Although I detest it but for anything better to replace it, if one hovers over the row with a (phone) number, icons for calling and SMSing appear. When they're clicked, they pop up a "pseudowindow" to perform the call (such as choosing a forwarding number, call, and cancel/hang up) or SMS. The stupidity is that for no particularly good reason, this knowledge is hidden until the happenstance of hover happens.
R_Chandra:
From what my preliminary research indicates, we should not have a lot of concern. Google are merely choosing to migrate from one open technology, XMPP with Jingle extensions, to another, WebRTC. So when XMPP is kaputt, Obihai I will guess will simply release firmware 1.4, 2.0, or whatever, which will implement SIP, SDP, RTP, SRTP and WebRTC (instead of SIP, SDP, RTP, SRTP, XMPP, and Jingle). Or maybe it will just graft on WebRTC so it will operate on all seven; not sure how much ROM/RAM/flash there is to work with and what the requirements are.
giqcass:
I believe the new protocol is fairly lightweight. It's been designed to allow it to run in a browser.
Crow550:
Did some tests. Google Chat calling for apps and devices still works fine.
I went in Gmail and switched from Google Talk to Hangouts for two different Google accounts one using Obi and the other using Groove IP. Tested calls in and out with an Obi device (even rebooted the device) and the other account with the Groove IP app calling in and out.
Works just the same as usual.
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