Help! Setting up Google Voice on new OBi
LTN1:
Quote from: francesco on March 07, 2015, 05:22:35 am
Hi. I'm a newbie also.
I read through these messages, and I think I'm having the same issue, in setting up GV. I can't make or receive calls yet with the GV/OBI200.
In reading the posts, it seems that I have to 'revert' to google chat to make a call, so that my GV connects to my Obi200 correctly. In GV, I can't figure out how to revert to google chat to make that call.
In GV, I can't find how/where to forward calls to my GV number via chat. Frustrated :/
Here's how to revert to the old Google chat and make GV work with the OBi. Remember that you have to make at least one call from your GMail account after you revert to Google chat before it shows up in your GV configuration:
https://www.all4os.com/google/quick-trick-for-missing-forwards-calls-to-google-chat-option-in-google-voice-account.html#comment-47718
BigJim_McD:
Quote from: LTN1 on March 07, 2015, 06:41:58 am
Quote from: francesco on March 07, 2015, 05:22:35 am
.... ... .. having the same issue, in setting up GV. I can't make or receive calls yet with the GV/OBI200.
.... ... .. . In GV, I can't figure out how to revert to google chat to make that call.
.... ... .. . In GV, I can't find how/where to forward calls to my GV number via chat. Frustrated :/
Here's how to revert to the old Google chat and make GV work with the OBi. Remember that you have to make at least one call from your GMail account after you revert to Google chat before it shows up in your GV configuration:
https://www.all4os.com/google/quick-trick-for-missing-forwards-calls-to-google-chat-option-in-google-voice-account.html#comment-47718
LTN1, Thanks for the Link to:
"Quick trick for Missing Forwards calls to Google Chat Option in Google Voice Account"
ALL4OS › Google › Quick trick for Missing Forwards calls to Google Chat Option in Google Voice Account - Sept 28th, 2014 - HX @ Google
The screen shots and instructions are the best I've seen yet to pass onto the next "Newbie" that are struggling with setting up Google Voice "Chat" to work with an OBi device.
https://www.all4os.com/google/quick-trick-for-missing-forwards-calls-to-google-chat-option-in-google-voice-account.html#comment-47718
LTN1:
The only thing I would change about that guide is when it says to make a call first and if it doesn't work, revert to the old chat. I would skip that and just look if there is a "revert to old chat" and make the call after that from GMail.
SteveInWA:
The steps to add the Chat forwarding pseudo-phone destination are already in my instructions, here, including a picture:
http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=8560.msg56460#msg56460
I guess I will have to add a couple of new pictures, with arrows, too. ::)
The instructions on that webpage aren't actually correct. He's instructing people to make a call using Hangouts. Hangouts doesn't use the Chat forwarding pseudo-phone, and making a call using Hangouts won't add the Chat phone to the GV settings page. You need to first revert to Chat, then make the call, and afterwards, you can go back to using Hangouts if you wish.
Is there anything else in my instructions that is unclear (other than the need to actually read them)?
LTN1:
Quote from: SteveInWA on March 07, 2015, 07:17:22 pm
The steps to add the Chat forwarding pseudo-phone destination are already in my instructions, here, including a picture:
http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=8560.msg56460#msg56460
I guess I will have to add a couple of new pictures, with arrows, too. ::)
The instructions on that webpage aren't actually correct. He's instructing people to make a call using Hangouts. Hangouts doesn't use the Chat forwarding pseudo-phone, and making a call using Hangouts won't add the Chat phone to the GV settings page. You need to first revert to Chat, then make the call, and afterwards, you can go back to using Hangouts if you wish.
Is there anything else in my instructions that is unclear (other than the need to actually read them)?
Steve...I actually prefer your instructions...it is much more thorough. However, it seems like some people prefer lots of pictures (even so called self proclaimed IT "professionals" trying to sign on to GV)--hence, I searched the internet for instructions with lots of pictures!
I guess I have to be more compassionate about those who learn better visually--though that is not how I have learned!
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