Raspberry Pi + GVmate = what we want once Google ends support for XMPP
drgeoff:
I'm not expecting Obihai to do anything further on GV. I suspect Google told them there will be consequences if they do.
IMHO Obiha still make the best ATAs available that have ever been marketed.
azrobert:
What giqcass described is the GV Callback method that SipSorcery uses. There is a permanent connection to GV with the XMPP protocol that the OBi uses.
I have a free grandfathered SipSorcery account, so I will be using them. If you know what you are doing, you can setup the callback method on Asterisk. If I remember correctly in the last 4 years the callback method died twice because of changes by GV. These outages did not affect inbound calls. This is unreliable, but not that unreliable. All you would need is a Pay as You Go provider with no monthly charges for backup and put $10 in the account. This is a small price to pay for free service.
PcPhoneSoft claims they have their GVmate software working in a lab with the Hangouts protocol and will switch to it before May 15th. I'll believe it when I see it, but if they can Asterisk or Yate should also be able to use the Hangouts protocol.
Marty.ba.calif.usa:
Quote from: drgeoff on March 18, 2014, 07:29:30 am
I'm not expecting Obihai to do anything further on GV. I suspect Google told them there will be consequences if they do.
IMHO Obiha still make the best ATAs available that have ever been marketed.
In my opinion, you are correct, but not for that reason. I don't think Google cares about Obiha users at all, they care only about their own strategy, which appears to be Hangouts for everything. It sees that Hangouts may be the end-all strategy to incorporate the features of GV and all their other messaging apps, according to this article: http://goo.gl/8JQzMq
drgeoff:
Google is not a charity. Think about how they make their billions. How do users of Obihai boxes fit into that business model?
twinclouds:
If you have Raspberry Pi, why don't you try the "old" dialback approach. It was suggested in: http://tech.iprock.com/?p=9784. I have also written a step by step guide in http://hobbiesbytwinclouds.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/how-to-make-and-receive-call-using-google-voice-without-xmpp/, which is pretty straightforward. If you know how to use RPi, you should be able to do that.
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