Will GoogleVoice stop working on all deployed OBi devices after May 15?
AndyJ:
Quote from: SteveInWA on November 12, 2013, 06:20:47 pm
The main point of confusion, is that Google Voice is not, and never was, a free phone service. It's an inbound call management system. Google's companion products, Talk, Chat, and now Hangouts, provide the VoIP functions.
As even Google Voice allows free outbound calls within the US using a traditional phone line (just in a roundabout manner), it's actually also an outbound call management system. Calls can be initiated through the GV web site, or by dialing your own GV number and then continuing the call from there. However, as you indicated, the VoIP/XMPP interface that is being used for outbound calling by the OBi is actually part of Talk/Chat/Hangouts.
SteveInWA:
Actually, clicking the red CALL button on your GV web page gets broken when Hangouts is enabled (which in turn, disables old Chat), and so calling via one's GV page isn't supported at the moment. The "call your own GV number, then access your VM in admin mode and then press 2 to make a new call" method does continue to work, of course.
Again, bottom line is that this is now a somewhat messy work in progress, and I expect more confusion to continue until the products are integrated.
gderf:
So don't enable Hangouts.
SteveInWA:
Quote from: gderf on November 13, 2013, 07:23:38 pm
So don't enable Hangouts.
Well, yes, for the time being. What Google now calls "Old Chat" will be going away soon, so I didn't want to give the impression that it's a long-term workaround.
gderf:
I have the GV plugin installed in Chrome which allows me to dial by clicking on phone numbers or by selecting numbers from my contact lists by typing letters in the names. Will that no longer work when Old Chat goes away?
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