Google Sets the Date for the End of XMPP with Google Voice
Lavarock7:
Voip.Ms has cheap calling and can spoof any caller-id, unlike some others who requite that you actually own the number you want to spoof to. I used to spoof to a number held by Sipgate.
Currently porting to Voip.Ms is free in the US and most numbers then would cost 99 cents a month to be held there.
ProfTech:
I agree with QBZappy. I played around with Google Voice when I first got the Obi but the old adage "You get what you pay for" applies here. I have tried several SIP providers with varying results. LocalPhone was one of them but I believe CallWithUs gives the light user more bang for your buck and better call quality and reliability. For ease of setup CallCentric is very good. YMMV
For what it is worth, the Obi 110 can spoof a caller ID but Callcentric will not accept the call the way the Obi does it.
mo832:
Since it isn't clear which thread is most related, I would like to post the same question in here. The link is below:
http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=3640.msg43399#msg43399
I would appreciate anyone's additional comments. Please read the responses and the followup questions.
Thanks in advance.
Ostracus:
Quote from: QBZappy on November 05, 2013, 07:23:35 am
This looks like an opportunity to make another round of feature requests and suggest your own.
Isn't Obihai embracing WebRTC?
Koby:
Quote from: carl on November 01, 2013, 10:19:30 am
http://tech.iprock.com/?p=9784
For asterisk/freepbx users the old way
It seems to me that if that works, anyone could get a Raspberry Pi and then install Asterisk for Raspberry Pi and run their Obihai device as an extension off of that. Asterisk would be the "Service Provider" in that case. Then, assuming free DIDs are still available, you could bring in your free DID on an Asterisk trunk, and use the older method shown at that link to initiate a call.
What I can tell you about that method shown at that link is that it does not use XMPP. I can't say for sure, but it appears that it emulates you going to your Google Voice page and entering the number you want to call in the callback box. Then Asterisk waits for the incoming Google Voice call, and when it comes in it connects it to you. You don't hang up the phone after dialing, you just wait for Asterisk to connect the incoming call on your DID back to you. As far as you're is concerned, it appears to work the way it does now, except that it takes a little longer for ringing to begin. As far as Google is concerned, it's just you entering a number and asking to be called back, and then the call completed to that number. The fact that you are entering that number from your phone's keypad rather than your computer's keyboard or your tablet's touchscreen shouldn't make any difference in the way it works.
Google could shut this functionality off at any time if they don't want people using it, but my guess is that so few users will go through the bother of setting up an Asterisk server for this type of usage that it won't impact them significantly. At least for now, that option is very likely still available. But if Obihai were to build this functionality into their devices, that might cause enough additional usage that it would compel Google to turn off that callback feature. Remember, whenever you use that callback feature, Google is making two calls, one to you and one to the party you are calling. So if every Obihai user started doing that, their costs might take a sudden jump. But that would also happen if large numbers of Obihai users start going to their web site to initiate callbacks.
Not something to even worry about until it gets a lot closer to May, though.
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