Google Voice back as Approved Service Provider!?
SteveInWA:
Thanks for the feedback!
Bill, I understand your concern with regard to the GV forum. I've documented this privately for my fellow Top Contributors and the Google staff, however, since this is a Obihai-specific issue, and Google has not, and will not comment in public about the status or future plans for XMPP support, we need to continue to direct those questions over here.
"Executive summary" or "Reader's Digest" version of my very wordy post:
OBi device emulation of a Google Chat XMPP client has never been "approved" nor officially supported by Google, and it still isn't.Google did plan to shut down XMPP access, and thus notified third parties. For undisclosed reasons, this shutdown was postponed. You cannot infer or deduce anything significant from this postponement.One of Google's stated concerns with third party use was the insecure method of authenticating a user to the service.Obihai has now updated their device firmware to use Google's more secure OAUTH 2.0 access token method.This eliminates the previous security concern, but as of today, it is separate from, and has not changed Obihai's use of XMPP as the actual Chat client protocol.You are welcome to continue using GV on your OBi device, as long as it still works.There is no guarantee, nor expectation that XMPP will continue to be supported in the future, and any recent change to the Obihai website, or the implementation of OAUTH authentication, is no indication of continued support.There was no sneaky trickery behind any of this; Obihai wants to sell devices, not to manipulate its customers onto or off of GV.There is no further information available, and nobody at Google will answer any questions about this. Anything you may read from third party blogs, etc. will be unreliable speculation.Hang on for the ride, and enjoy your Obi products!
carl:
It is good to know that Google is working on the reliability issues- they were real, whether I used GV as intended ( PSTN call treatment/switch) or as a phone service.
BTW in my experience a lot of businesses used extensively GV for outgoing calls.
For my part, I am done with GV and can hardly understand all that excitement.
ceg3:
Ultimately moving GV to a backup role and signing up with a ITSP has given me better call quality and the things I had not gotten from GV, CNAM for one. Now that MWI is also gone from GV I have another reason to use a SP for my primary line.
SteveInWA:
Yes, despite my extensive involvement with Google Voice, I don't use it at all as a service provider on my OBi devices, other than for testing and support purposes. If users are only interested in free calling, then it's there to use.
Personally, I forward inbound calls from GV to a Callcentric DID, and make outbound calls via Callcentric or Localphone, and I've found that to be the best combination of features, performance and cost for me.
Usetheforceobiwan:
Quote from: SteveInWA on August 20, 2014, 05:23:06 pm
Personally, forward calls from GV to a Callcentric DID, and make outbound calls via Callcentric or Localphone, and I've found that to be the best combination of features, performance and cost for me.
I think you have alota company with this setup as it has you well covered no matter what happens with XMPP and GV.
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