Google Chat not showing up
Yarrow:
Okay, I've played with this some more and made it work for one of my google voice numbers, but still not for one of them. I seem to have 4 different situations for 4 different GV numbers.
The first one simply worked with obi, without my having to do anything. Perhaps I had previously made a phone call from gmail. In any event, it's up and running.
The third also simply worked with obi, but has vanished from GV. It's working with obi as if it were a GV number, which it is, but the number doesn't show up on Google, which invites me to add a number. I wonder whether that will eventually cause problems. Any thoughts on this?
The fourth worked exactly per your instructions. The gmail screen looked like this.
The second, however, under that same "compose" menu in gmail, gives a list of options, followed by
a horizontal line, under which is the user name, and then under that is a rectangular box with the words "New Hangout" to the left and a telephone icon to the right. Clicking on the telephone icon here produces a new box with a flag on the left and the words "Name, number" on the right. I entered a number here and was able to make a phone call, but it went via hangouts, not via chat, which must be why Google Chat did not show up there.
gderf:
It will not work with Hangouts enabled. Switch that account back to Chat:
https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/3115176?hl=en
Yarrow:
Aha! Okay, trying that now. Success!!
Any idea what's up with the GV number that works on the obi but doesn't show up in Google? I just want to make sure I don't lose the number. Also, that number doesn't connect directly; when I pick up the phone on the obi, a recording asks me to press 1 to accept the call.
gderf:
GV numbers that work on the OBi but don't show up in Google may mean that you are not logged into the account associated with the number. Are you sure you are logging in with the correct ID?
You'll have to look around in your GV settings to see why that prompt to accept the call is activated.
Yarrow:
No, when I am signed in with that account the lower left hand corner where the number should appear instead has "Get a Voice number." Weird...
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