montano
join:2001-04-29
Central Cali
 ·VOIPo
| Grandcentral and Gizmo teaming up.
It looks like Grandcentral and Gizmo are teaming up to provide the long awaited SIP forwarding that was lacking from Grandcentrals feature set. I believe it will begin early next week and I'm really looking forward to it. I will finally get to put both services to good use.
It is my understanding that Gizmo will be listed as one of the forwarding options, and all you need to do is input your Gizmo number and you're good to go. |
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mazilo
From Mazilo
Premium
join:2002-05-30
Lilburn, GA
| said by montano  :It is my understanding that Gizmo will be listed as one of the forwarding options, and all you need to do is input your Gizmo number and you're good to go. Awesome. I just hope this forwarding will not introduce too much latencies. I forwarded my GS to Stanaphone and I noticed there is a delay of about 1 sec and this is too much.
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Mazi (UK Non-Geo Phone: +44-703-194-2574) |
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Citronella
join:2003-12-29
Washington, DC
| reply to montano
This is AWESOME...I travel a lot and now I can get all the calls to my GrandCentral number ringing on my laptop any freaking where and everybody is just calling my normal 202 number in DC! What will be really be cool is if it works with Gizmo on the Nokia N80! Need to check that one out. |
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montano
join:2001-04-29
Central Cali | reply to montano
I think this is going to work great for my needs. I really like the feature set that Grandcentral provides, and now I can get my calls over VoIP without the need for another DID. |
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david3
join:2000-03-21
| reply to montano
I noticed a week or so ago I was able to click on my 747 gizmo number in the Inbox and GrandCentral would return the call directly to the 747 gizmo number at times. I tried putting my 747 number in as my forwarded number, but it didn't seem to work yet.
That would be great if they add the feature to forward to a SIP URI. Even if it's only for Gizmo numbers, you can always set your Gizmo account to forward to a different SIP URI.
My main complaint for the GrandCentral service is that unanswered calls are billed to the calling party (when it's not a local call for them). Also, it goes to voicemail too quickly. |
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tj008
join:2004-06-24
Cincinnati, OH | reply to montano
Very nice!
Cant wait for this to happen.
Thanks GrandCentral and GizmoProject!
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Cable. Voip cos: Paid- SunRocket; Free- FWD, SIPphone, VoiceStick, FreeDigits. |
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jtel
join:2005-06-28
Bristol, RI | I'd like to be able to access my address book from voicemail to initiate a call to those numbers in addition to returning calls.
I hope when they come out of beta this is one of the premium options. |
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jtel
join:2005-06-28
Bristol, RI | reply to montano
Gizmo is now specifically listed as an option along with cell, office and home for forwarding type. It even has the little Gizmo symbol! |
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Citronella
join:2003-12-29
Washington, DC
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Gizmo SIP Number | 
GC Gizmo Setting |
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stufried
Premium
join:2003-10-13 | Just remember the good old "do not disturb" feature. When you are twelve hours ahead of your phone number, you can have some rude awakenings. |
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david3
join:2000-03-21 | reply to montano
Has anybody gotten it to work with an ATA? It will ring for me, but it won't connect. I set it back to forward to my regular incoming phone number. |
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montano
join:2001-04-29
Central Cali
·VOIPo
| said by david3 :Has anybody gotten it to work with an ATA? It will ring for me, but it won't connect. I set it back to forward to my regular incoming phone number. Mine also rings but does not connect. I have tried a TA and an IP phone with no success. |
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jtel
join:2005-06-28
Bristol, RI | I set my gizmo softphone to auto answer and I get the calls. Grand Central won't cut through unless you press 1 so the auto answer doesn't affect it. |
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montano
join:2001-04-29
Central Cali | reply to montano
I didn't get a chance to play with it yesterday, but last I checked I could still not receive calls. The phone rings, but when I answer, it goes to a fast busy after a couple seconds of silence. |
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Yippz Voip
join:2005-05-04
Atlanta, GA
| said by montano :I didn't get a chance to play with it yesterday, but last I checked I could still not receive calls. The phone rings, but when I answer, it goes to a fast busy after a couple seconds of silence. Exactly the same deal here... I'm using a Sipura 841 sip phone and it works great with Gizmo, VBuzzer, FWD and others I've played with but GrandCentral only rings my Sipura, and continues ringing (calling myself from a Vonage line) even when I pick up the sip phone... Looks like they're still working on it...
Anyone actually get a connect from GrandCentral to Gizmo? |
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david3
join:2000-03-21 | reply to montano
I just tried again, and I still can't get GrandCentral to forward to my Gizmo account. It will ring, but no connection. I'm using G711u. Perhaps they only want to support the Gizmo software client, which generally uses ilbc. |
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xygor
join:2006-05-08
Quakertown, PA | I just successfully received a call through Gizmo account. I am using G711 on asterisk. |
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david3
join:2000-03-21 | I tried again, but its still not working. One time I actually got the "press 1 to connect the call" announcement when I answered the phone, but then it went to a busy signal. When I tried to test again, I didn't even get the announcement. |
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Wild Goose
join:2006-12-03
| reply to montano
That's often indicative of a codec mismatch. If you were going into an Asterisk/FreePBX box you could probably see what the problem is by turning on SIP debug and looking at the Asterisk log file for the time the call arrived. There may be some other issue, but I'd definitely consider the possibility of a codec mismatch. |
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montano
join:2001-04-29
Central Cali
·VOIPo
| reply to montano
I enabled all available codecs on my Grandstream and now calls come through fine. I'm not sure which codec is the right one, but it's working  |
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