Quote from: Yarrow on January 02, 2014, 10:00:26 AM
Previously, I did this from Google Voice, but now I have done it from Gmail with much the same result. There was no handset, but a space into which to type the number. I entered my cell number and called. It was direct, as you described, but GoogleChat did not appear afterwards as a forwarding option. I made a second call from Gmail, and GoogleChat still did not appear as a forwarding option. When I then tried to call my GV number from my cell, it rang on the computer, but not on the phone connected to obihai.
I'm having the same line of problems getting Google chat to appear as a forwarding option in Google voice. I am trying to set up this obi for my mother-in-law. She did not have an account, so I signed up for a new google account for her. Got to the point where I have a google voice number, and that google voice number is forwarding to her mobile. Like the OP, Google chat does not appear as a forwarding option in google voice.
Found this thread. Followed the advice to try to make a call through google mail chat. Like the OP, there was no handset in on the Google mail screen, just a line where I can type in a number. Below that box is the following:("Looks like you don't have anyone to chat with yet. Invite some contacts to get started.")
Thus, the chat function is only giving me the option to make a video-enabled call to my landline--which pops up a new window that has the word google hangouts on it. (NOTE: I reverted to the old chat program when I accidentally turned on google hangouts--so I don't know why my gmail account is still using google hangouts to make this "video" call.) I can call my landline using this video call function, but chat is still not appearing as a forwarding function. So making a video call must not be the fix everyone is talking about.
Can someone please figure out how to make a call through gmail?
ETA: I have included a screen shot of her gmail account