Google Sets the Date for the End of XMPP with Google Voice
gderf:
You can get a free NYC area DID from CallCentric http://www.callcentric.com/dids/free_phone_number
Just tell them you are not using it within the US or Canada or they will beat you up for a 911 monthly fee.
My OBi200 has a wizard for CallCentric setup. If your OBi doesn't you'll have to put the info CallCentric provides in by hand using the 'Other' provider wizard.
Yes, it would go on SP2.
I don't have an OBi110, but I think there is only SP1 and SP2 on those. Your Google Voice and the free DID are going to use them both. So you can't add a third or fourth SP like I can on the OBi 200. If that's the case you could use CallCentric for both incoming and outgoing on the same SP2 slot so long as you are happy with their outgoing rates.
The other option would be to wait for a firesale on an OBi200 or other model that can do four SP slots. Something tells me the prices on these are going to drop real soon now. Keeping an eye on ebay could pay off.
sdb-:
Quote from: azrobert on November 01, 2013, 02:43:55 pm
Method 1: Sign in to GV and initiate a call. GV does a callback.
Method 2: Call your GV number. You get a GV prompt. You enter "2" and the outbound number. GV makes the call. No callback.
I have a PSTN line and can call my GV number for free and then make a free long distance call. If you only have a SIP provider and using method 2, you are getting charged for the call by your provider.
Yeah, so use method 1 with GV. Awkward, but free! Or use a cheap SIP provider and call direct.
Inspired by the instructions posted elsewhere to "get free CNAM with google voice" I set up a free account with Anveo. I configured that account as SP2 in my OBi. I went to IPKall and got a free DID and sent it to my free Anveo SIP address. I went to google voice and added the IPKall number. Google gave me a code, called the number, it rang the phone plugging into my OBi, I entered the 2-digit code google gave me, and google added the IPKall number as a forwarding option. I selected to forward calls to that free IPKall number.
Now when someone calls my google number, it goes from google to IPKall to Anveo to my OBi to my phone. All free. And I get better caller ID than when my OBi got the google calls directly.
I can also (method 1) go to the google voice page, tell them to call a contact, they ring my IPKall number first, I answer, they call my contact.
All free.
Wilbour:
Quote from: gderf on November 03, 2013, 04:04:12 pm
You can get a free NYC area DID from CallCentric http://www.callcentric.com/dids/free_phone_number
Just tell them you are not using it within the US or Canada or they will beat you up for a 911 monthly fee.
My OBi200 has a wizard for CallCentric setup. If your OBi doesn't you'll have to put the info CallCentric provides in by hand using the 'Other' provider wizard.
Yes, it would go on SP2.
I don't have an OBi110, but I think there is only SP1 and SP2 on those. Your Google Voice and the free DID are going to use them both. So you can't add a third or fourth SP like I can on the OBi 200. If that's the case you could use CallCentric for both incoming and outgoing on the same SP2 slot so long as you are happy with their outgoing rates.
Can you make outgoing calls with the free CallCentric DID in NY State? Are you billed for a user pay rate?
sdb-:
Quote from: Wilbour on November 03, 2013, 08:54:00 pm
Can you make outgoing calls with the free CallCentric DID in NY State? Are you billed for a user pay rate?
No.
A Direct Inward Dialing number is not a phone line. It is just an inbound access for people on the public telephone network to reach into your VoIP phone system.
SIP and VoIP in general has no "phone line" that does calls both in and out. Just like buying phone service for a large business -- incoming lines and outgoing lines are totally separate. You might need a lot of incoming and very few out. Or you might need a lot of out and very few if any in.
You get a DID for incoming calls. Depending on your service it can do 1 or many calls simultaneously.
If you want to make calls you need an account that will let you make outgoing calls. Totally separate concept from incoming.
Most services will provide some way to set the caller ID information on outgoing calls. But "setting" is all it is. My account with localphone allows me to set my caller ID to the phone number of my centurylink phone line, or my google voice number, or my IPKall number or any number they can call and verify that it belongs to me. My account with Anveo even allows me to set a caller ID with each contact in my contact list to automatically use my preferred caller ID for each one.
J_R_:
The 2 links I provided indicate Google is replacing XMPP used in Google Voice with HTML5 and WebRTC for Hangouts.
Reading these links, one can infer that a firmware update will allow your OBi box to work with Hangouts (assuming the OBi has the cpu power and/or memory needed to do this).
http://blog.obihai.com/2012/11/obihai-and-webrtc-future-is-calling.html
http://www.pcphonesoft.com/gvjackapp-unaffected-by-xmpp-retirement-May-2014.html
Not sure why pcphonesoft can tell us we will work with GV after XMPP Retirement May 2014, and Obihai will not or cannot (may require newer, better, faster hardware?, NDA?).
I really don't think obi is going to let this cash cow die.
NOTE: Fixed links, they worked when I wrote this, broke when I pasted from Howard Forums.
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