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Google Voice not Active on my new phone?

Can Google Voice and VoIP help create my perfect phone set up?

  • In the spirit of Google Voice invites, I'm wondering if there might be cost effective a way to create a phone set up that does the following with two Google Voice numbers, two iPhones, and some sort of voip/sip/pbx/(insert acronym here) home phone solution: 1. If someone calls Google Voice A, iPhone A rings & home phone rings 2. If someone calls Google Voice B, iPhone B rings & home phone rings differently than if someone called GV A 3. Home phone can dial out cheaply or freely to US numbers and (ideally) display on caller IDs as either Google Voice A or B (Bonus points if the incoming calls can be handled cheaply or freely with low monthly commitments on the home phone) Am I dreaming? It seems like people are doing tons of wacky stuff with phones these days, but I've been unable to find someone doing this specifically in my Google trawling.

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    I have 2 google voice numbers, 2 cell phones and 1 sip device. The SIP device is an spa-3102 Number 1 goes to my cell phone and a gizmo5 account which forwards to my home phone (SIP) Number 2 goes to my wifes phone as well as the same gizmo5 account, which forwards to the home phone. I can dial out for free using the google voice web frontend from home. I type in the number to call and tell it to ring my home phone. Any calls I dial like that to my mobile use my minutes. I could theoretically save on minutes with my wife's phone (Symbian n96) by making it connect to the gizmo5 client over her 3g connection instead of the cellular network. I don't think you can do that on the iphone though. It might be possible to make the SPA-3102 or other sip device issue different rings based off of the incoming numbers. You can set google voice forwarding to send the gv # as the caller id instead of the callers #. That can be used to flag the rings if the sip device supports it. Or you could setup 2 gizmo5 accounts and use a 2 line sip device. In theory, I think I can setup my 3102 to do that, but I haven't done so. The downside of all of this is that the ringthrough to my cell phone is twitchy. This morning My cell phone rang but my home number did not. I think google voice twitchy in regards to ringing a bunch of numbers simultaneously. I can break down the specifics on how to set this up if you have more questions. I'll test out the dual ring thing tonight.

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http://gizmo5.com/pc/ Make an account. Log in. Scroll down till you see account overview. That phone number is your sip account. Either download the PC client or setup a SIP device. To setup the sip device - http://support.gizmo5.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=409&nav=0,31,44 Go to google voice, click settings, phones. Add a new phone number. Set the type to Gizmo5, the number to your gizmo 747 number without the 1. The validation requires your sip phone to be setup, so either do that first or use the pc client. That should hook up the forwarding if someone calls your home number. I'm unsure if the order of forwarding is screwing up my cell vs. home phone. I'm also unsure how dialing out works since I've been using the web dialing frontend for GV. That should get you up and running. I'll check into the dual rings and multiple lines on the 3102 tonight. Also, right now I'm using 2 GV numbers pointed at 1 Gizmo5 account too. I'm not sure that's the best approach as well, so I'll try to split to 2 Gizmo5 accounts.

Lord_Pall

Wow, that's it! Any more specifics would be great.

ejoey

Gizmo5 just cut this to 3 minutes, 2 cents a minute afterwards I'm investigating the http://nerdvittles.com/?p=630 now.

Lord_Pall

http://ask.metafilter.com/128083/Can-Google-Voice-and-VoIP-help-create-my-perfect-phone-set-up#1836588: "Gizmo5 just added native google voice support to their members section. On your account settings it'll list google voice calling." FYI: From a website, re: Gizmo+ Gvoice: "There is now a notice on the page that this is an experimental service and calls will be limited to 20 minutes." I can't confirm this, just wanted to mention it in case your calls are getting cut off.

sharkfu

Awesome. Can't wait for my 3102 to arrive.

ejoey

Gizmo5 just added native google voice support to their members section. On your account settings it'll list google voice calling. I can now dial directly out from the sip phone.. Swanky.

Lord_Pall

Update - 3102 only does 1 line, so the 2 gizmo5 accounts are a no-go. There is a setting for distinctive rings based on incoming criteria on the sip box, so that's going to be your best bet. I'm still working on the ringthrough. It's looking like it's only my crummy cell that's causing trouble.. The rest works peachy.

Lord_Pall

Also for the iPhone, if you jailbreak it, you can run Skype in the background with Backgrounder (as well as over 3G). You can then use the GV app to call your Skype, then pick it up, costing 0 minutes and solely data. It worked well for me over Wifi, but I never tried the 3G route.

wongcorgi

sharkfu: I think you might be confused. You initiate calls Google voice on any browser or smartphone, so you can talk on your home phone (just with that extra step). Calling your Google voice number only rings the associated phones. But you are right, there are no devices that let you just pick up and dial, then talk. Google voice doesn't work that way. Spoofing the CID with Skype bypasses some of the call logging- and doesn't seem to work, GV didn't receive the verification SMS from Skype (tried twice and cost me 40 cents).

wongcorgi

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