maziloFrom MaziloPremium
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kudos:1 | reply to caseydoug
Re: Connecting to Google Voice Via SIP said by caseydoug:This feature has another benefit: the ability to make and receive free calls without requiring either a PSTN or a paid SIP account. I set up two free Gizmo5 accounts, one of which is forwarded to GV via SIP for outbound calling, and the other is set up as one of my GV primary numbers for inbound calling. Using a speed dial entry (or Mysipswitch or various other methods), I can dial the forwarding Gizmo number and make a call out using GV. I understood this. Actually, you can do this with a single (not duo) Gizmo5 account + a GV account. Configure your Gizmo5 account with Call Hunting (If no answer on Gizmo5, ring elsewhere) feature and just call your own Gizmo5 number from your ATA configured to your Gizmo5 account. It will probably ring six times before the call gets forwarded to your GV line through SIP. Once on GV, press * and 2 to place outbound PSTN call.
One thing I haven't figured out, however, is how to call out without dialing extra digits. I'm using Mysipswitch, which has powerful dial plan scripting, but I don't see how to make it pass the *, 2, PIN, and phone number after the call has been forwarded to GV. May be, this will help if you are using asterisk PBX system.
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| Thanks, mazilo, I'll take a look at it.
Thanks also for the tip about Call Hunting.
Earlier in this thread, Oroman posted about being able to avoid the *2PIN requirement by setting up a dummy contact and routing calls from that number to the (disabled) GV number. Have you been able to get that to work with Gizmo? It works fine from my PSTN numbers, but not from Gizmo, possibly because the Gizmo connection is forwarded rather than direct. If you try it, please let me know one way or the other. |
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said by mazilo:Actually, you can do this with a single (not duo) Gizmo5 account + a GV account. Configure your Gizmo5 account with Call Hunting (If no answer on Gizmo5, ring elsewhere) feature and just call your own Gizmo5 number from your ATA ... Didn't work for me since i never had any call-out credit at gizmo. Since my phone is next to my pc, and my pc is always on, it's not a huge hassle to just call through the GV website. |
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Didn't work for me since i never had any call-out credit at gizmo.
That's the point of forwarding to the GV SIP address: you don't need call-out credits. |
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Nerd Vittles strikes again with a new recipe for making free U.S. calls with Asterisk. This time they're using Asterisk, Google Voice, and Gizmo. All of the accounts and calls are free, free, free.
»nerdvittles.com/?p=605 |
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maziloFrom MaziloPremium
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kudos:1 | said by AllThumbs:Nerd Vittles strikes again with a new recipe for making free U.S. calls with Asterisk. This time they're using Asterisk, Google Voice, and Gizmo. All of the accounts and calls are free, free, free. Yup and I have done this way before I posted this, except I didn't bother to post the whole asterisk dialplan context and let NerdVittles do this for us. 
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| Actually cnr1109 first pointed out that the Gizmo SIP connection might be working (he referenced the post at »googlevoices.blogspot.com/). What I haven't been able to figure out is whether Google closed that connection and then reopened it, or whether it was never closed. When we lost the SIP connection a couple of weeks ago, I tested it using a number of different proxies, but never tried forwarding from Gizmo until mazilo indicated it was working. Can anybody confirm that Google had shut this connection down along with the others? |
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maziloFrom MaziloPremium
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kudos:1 | That's correct. Nevertheless, I already had this working before I posted my article.
What I haven't been able to figure out is whether Google closed that connection and then reopened it, or whether it was never closed. When we lost the SIP connection a couple of weeks ago, I tested it using a number of different proxies, but never tried forwarding from Gizmo until mazilo indicated it was working. Actually, it was cnr1109 first indicated on his post and I tested/played with it a bit.
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| said by mazilo:Actually, it was cnr1109 first indicated on his post and I tested/played with it a bit. Either way it is a nasty hack. I guess if you're really cheap or desperate you'll want to use this. GV should just open up its SIP interface to the users. |
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