Google Chat Status always Away or "Voice Only"
QBZappy:
props,
Hi,
No, you are not the only one. You may check other threads in the forum and ask directly others who posted, with a similar issue, if they were able to find a solution to this. Good Luck.
QBZappy:
Here are two interesting threads kind of related to the subject of the OP. It shows how someone with a similar issue with Asterisk+GV , and another with Pidgin IM showing the on line status he wanted to control. It may give the Obi people some idea on how to control the on line status of the OBi+GV.
Asterisk hack: make your Google Talk client invisible
http://www.personal.psu.edu/wcs131/blogs/psuvoip/2011/01/asterisk_hack_make_your_google.html
Google Talk invisible mode in Pidgin (Above mentioned post makes reference to this link)
http://chinmaykamat.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/google-talk-invisible-mode-in-pidgin/
Partial quote :
"Quick background: Google wrote a variety of XMPP extensions to make Google Talk do voice and a bunch of other non-standard XMPP things. One of those things is what Google calls "shared statuses," which also includes invisible mode--the ability to be online but set your client as invisible so that others can't see you, but could chat with you.
You might want to use this feature if, like me, your Google Voice number is attached to your main GMail account. I don't use the chat features but I appear online to anyone who has me in their contact list, as long as Asterisk is logged in, and that has the potential to draw unwanted instant messages (that will never get answered)."
props:
Interesting reads, thanks. I'm guessing the Obi needs to support the google talk shared status feature:
<feature var='google:shared-status'/>
and/or some ability to send out manual XMPP xml code?
tylercal:
It will not be enough to just be invisible. Google supports sending "offline chats". So if you really are offline, you get an email with the contents of the offline chat. If you are just invisible however, the "offline chat" will get delivered to the Obihai device.
If there is no way to stop the Obihai device from eating the chat messages, first priority should be delivering the missed chats as emails or text messages.
I have just now found a heap of chats that I've missed while my status is "Voice Only"
props:
Any updates to this possible feature/fix? Anyone have any workarounds?
Ive enabled chat logging in gmail so i can periodically check in case I miss any IMs, even though I might not find out immediately. Also, it is quite annoying to always have my global gtalk status set to Away, when I am in fact available.
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