Google Voice back as Approved Service Provider!?
Kotdiawo:
Here is the official announcement. http://bit.ly/1qJTUCl
mo832:
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SteveInWA,
Regarding the new setup to make GV your SP...
I have been using GV nonstop on SP2 throughout this whole adventure. I setup SP1 with a Callcentric DID and forward GV to CC and then to the Obi100. As long as XMPP was still working, I figured I would "ride it out" for as long as possible on the 2nd SP, so I made no changes to that side of my system. BTW, I got a special "application password" from Google to input into Obitalk bc I didn't want to disclose my gmail credentials.
So, since I have been using GV/Obi all along, and it already has my login stored, and it still works as normal as of today, do I need to do anything? Did the Obi update change anything in my system automatically? I believe I had auto updates turned off anyway. How can I check if any changes were made and if they have altered my config such that I may need to take action to continue to make calls thru my handset with GV ?
Durbhasa:
Thanks, SteveInWA, for all of the information you provided.
Quote from: SteveInWA on August 20, 2014, 05:23:06 pm
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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.
After 15 May, I switched to exactly this system, and it's worked well for the most part. I think I miss though, with this setup, is Google Voice information about my outgoing calls, since they're no longer handled through GVoice. (I find it a nice feature of Google Voice that I can easily look through missed, received calls etc.)
Crow550:
Quote from: Kotdiawo on September 11, 2014, 10:00:11 am
Here is the official announcement. http://bit.ly/1qJTUCl
Awesome so now it's Officially Supported by Google......
So one has to wonder if it's still using XMPP or has merged with Hangouts yet? Since it's now "Officially Supported" then I assume it will be moving from XMPP....
Unless the new secure method of connecting to XMPP has made them decide to keep it. Which is cool too. As I believe XMPP was going to be shutdown because it wasn't consider secure......
Either way Google Voice is now Officially Supported. So groovy.
simpleAnswers:
Quote from: SteveInWA on August 18, 2014, 09:48:19 pm
Hello y'all...
I abandoned the forum months ago, after it generally descended into endless speculation, conspiracy theories, and mis-information, and above all, obnoxious behavior by a few people in posts about Google Voice. I resisted returning here, but given that a new frenzy of speculation has been whipped up, let me try to offer you the most current, accurate information you will get, other than from an employee of Obihai or Google.
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. . . . . OAUTH never gives the third party your Google user ID or password. Instead, you log into your own Google account directly, and then the third party requests permission to access defined information on your Google account. You give permission to Google directly, which then exchanges "access tokens" with the third party. This is the pop-up window you will now see when you add GV as a service provider. Look for "OAUTH" in the URL string. You can confirm that your device has been updated, by listening for a female, vs. male, "auto attendant" voice.
Oh wow, this is by far the MOST clear and well written take on the GV subject I have read on this forum.
Just like you, I frankly gave up on all the pointless speculation I was reading on the forum and left and haven't returned until today when I finally got the email from Obihai that GV is now again supported. The speculation was too rampant.
I figured that it had to be security related. Heck when I first signed up for Obi, when it asked for my gmail password, I refused and set up another gmail account just for that, and even still was not comfortable with the hand over your credentials process. I kept asking why it didn't just request authorization to access the account like every good service does now. So I'm glad that they have been forced to use industry standard authorization tokens which I can hopefully revoke from my account whenever I want. The other option was to use an application password.
Most users here don't know the power of the google account API, with everything being lumped into under one google login: gmail, drive, keep, calendar, search history, docs, play, maps etc. A breach can do a lot of damage very quickly, I think any service that doesn't use the request access protocol where you can revoke when you want will slowly get blocked by Big-G eventually. I'm a big proponent for the way Big-G has implemented 2 factor authentication on their services and I use that regularly with a little bit more confidence.
As for the other VOIP services, IMHO all the other VOIP services I tried were simply not up to scratch. Period! Yes I signed up for them all, be it the sorcery, name changing voip, the centric, the anvil, the powerful phone you name it. They were all not good to work with the Obi for me. Simple things like 2nd line ringing etc were almost impossible to get to work seamlessly. They can rejoice that the little confusion made them some nice $$$.
For me after May 15th came and went and the sky didn't fall like was speculated. After another one of the other VOIP services went down again, I went back and switched my Obi back to GV. With the simple logic that I'll run it till the wheels come off and until then I'll take my chances. And you know what, I never had any issues again it has been smooth and that was 5 months ago.
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