Quote from: simpleAnswers on January 12, 2014, 08:18:17 AM
I have been reading all the opinions on this issue on how to overcome the gv xmpp support ending and so far I have to say they have all been practically useless or just not useful answers. The solutions proposed sound so convoluted that I can't see them working very well.
I wholeheartedly agree with gderf's answers in this thread. The alternatives aren't convoluted at all, nor were they useless answers; the solutions work great, although they cost some money. As was already pointed out, you simply cannot continue to get something for nothing; it was an unauthorized use of Google Voice, never negotiated with Google, nor promised to be permanent by Obihai. Obihai never said they had partnered with Google to provide the service. They simply made the feature available for you to use.
You are simply upset that you are losing your free calling from Google. It's like the stages of grieving. You need to move from denial and anger to acceptance.
Free, direct GV service via a box, be it black or cream-colored, is DEAD.Seriously, this has been thoroughly run into the ground. Obihai has listed a good selection of SIP carriers. The market is very competitive, with low profit margin.
Quote from: simpleAnswers on January 12, 2014, 08:18:17 AM
So my question is simple and I know there is an answer.
I have an Obi110 which is setup with my GV and I simply pickup a phone and dial. When I get a call my Obi rings and I answer, it is not plugged into a computer or connected via bluetooth etc.
Post May 2014, is there anyway I can still do this, using my GV and just a phone without having a computer always on? And No, I don't think having a bluetooth blah, connected to the phone is a solution. I don't care if the answer does not involve an Obi device. If they can't/won't fix their device, then maybe someone knows something else that does what we all paid for.
No. There
is no answer, and no, nothing is broken. Google is simply closing the hole that allowed third-parties to use Chat for calling outside the Google ecosystem. You didn't pay a one-time fee for free telephone service. You bought and paid for a box -- an Analog Telephone Adapter that can connect to various internet telephone service providers. The main thing that differentiated it from all the other ATAs out there, was that it had a built-in XMPP Google Chat client. That XMPP Chat service is being shut down completely
by Google. DEAD. You can be angry at Google if you like, but
that attitude is useless and not helpful, not the answers provided so far.
If you do not want to pay some amount of money for convenient phone service via a box and a RJ11 analog phone jack and a phone, then make all your calls on a laptop or desktop computer, or on an Apple iOS device, or soon, on an Android device, using the replacement for Chat: Google Hangouts. Hangouts is where Google is investing their development funding, and it will continue to improve over time. Just this week, for example, Google announced a turnkey solution for video conferencing using Hangouts and Chromeboxes. That's the future, not being just another VoIP telephone company.