Quote from: billsimon on December 05, 2017, 09:19:06 AM
Thanks for assuming I'm cool
To be very clear about the access Google Voice Gateway (and its proprietor) have:
You authorize systems that have our app credentials (specifically, any of the current 7 GVGW VoIP servers) to log in to your Google Chat account ONLY. There is no other access to your Google account, including the Google Voice page, SMSes, or anything else. Audio does pass through our servers, obviously, but it is not monitored (Who has time for that?) nor is it tracked in any way that would make it convenient or easy to do so. Use TLS to hide your signaling for good measure.
Hi Mr. Simon! Thanks for your response and for clearing some things up. To be clear on my end, I really do think you're cool and not the creepy guy listening to our conversations on the weekends :-) After I signed up I was checking out the third party app access in my google account and saw the attached Image below.
It just made me think, who is this guy and what have I done. It says it has access to google hangouts, view and send chat messages. If one has the option turned on to receive google voice texts and voicemail via hangouts I was unsure. I thought I may have just given access to my SMS and voicemail which I really didn't want to give a guy that I don't know. I don't know why, but I feel more comfortable giving a company that sells their products at Bestbuy/Walmart/Newegg etc the same access instead. But seeing your reply here makes me want to trust you more.
I couldn't stop thinking about it, I'm weird like that... Around the same time I get a promo for the obi202 from newegg so I just picked one of those up. Now obi has access to view and send chat messages. :-)
You have made the Google Voice Gateway service very easy to set up/use and a great option for older obi100 devices that now receive the "Backing off" error. I also enjoyed seeing caller ID as well. From the few days that I used it, it worked very well. Thank you for giving us the option for the ridiculously low one time $6 setup fee.