Comments on: Googlified Messaging: Asterisk’s New Best Friend

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:24:42 +0000

Google transcription is still hilarious. There are some creative YouTube videos about it.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:09:03 +0000

I can’t believe that google is just giving these numbers away, how sweet is that? Great write up on this, very useful

By: nrinzema

nrinzema — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:10:06 +0000

Hello, how could I setup a pinless dialplan with just a sipura SPA-2002, from what I gather the asterisk dial plans are not the same structure as what the dial plan of this ata actually are. I basically wish I could set a dialplan in the ata and not have to setup an entire asterisk box just to get this kind of functionality on ease of outbound calls to us numbers. Any response to this would be much appreciated, even if there is another ata that can handle that level of scripting that would eliminate having to setup an entire pbx system just to get pinless dialing. Just let me know what you think! Super appreciative, Nate

By: Scott Wallace

Scott Wallace — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:49:29 +0000

I’m able to do GV via SIP dialing in Gizmo Project; just can’t seem to be able to get Asterisk to do it.

By: ward

ward — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:29:14 +0000

Looks like we're all back to using the Skype gateway until the next hack. Just wondering how this qualifies as a smart business move? Isn't the idea to get more people to use the service? It obviously wasn't going to be free calling forever anyway.

By: andie

andie — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:05:04 +0000

Can anyone confirm if GV via SIP dialing still work? I think GV team patched this.

By: Joe Hoot

Joe Hoot — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:21:06 +0000

Yeah… worked great when I tried earlier. Unfortunately, I tried the same type of thing with my home system and couldn’t get it to work. I then tried again from the original asterisk system (Trixbox 2.6.2.2) that was working earlier and it seems to connect and then it seems that google is hanging up the call. I’m curious if they’ve closed the hole 🙁 I was hopeful and was eager to get my home system working with it, but we may just have to wait for something else.

By: ward

ward — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:09:33 +0000

For some other Google Voice tips and tricks, see this thread. Then check out this new Firefox Add-On.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:41:49 +0000

I have been using GrandCentral/GV with Gizmo5/SIPPhone and Asterisk for some time, works a charm. Great post, as a lot of people may benefit from this integration.

By: markiper

markiper — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:02:17 +0000

Uncle Ward, this is a pretty cool application. Just one comment for using the GOOGLE 411 service. I have been using this service for the past 2 years by just creating a ringroup in FreePBX (the number of the ringroup is, of course, 411) and adding the 18006446411# to the extensions to be dialed. As we have the capabilities of making free calls to tool-free numbers in the US by using a number of different ways, then the call is always free and it has prevented me from paying the $0.75 that you get charged if you dialed to 411 directory assistance of any of the Ma. Bell company or VoIP provider. Just my two cents on this so people can start benefiting from it already.

By: bp

bp — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:21:25 +0000

Just a useful tweak: You shouldn’t need al of the w’s at the beginning of the D() macro. * can be entered anytime during ringing, and this avoids ringing the phones of the GV account having to ring during that time.

Another trick that works, stick a Set(CALLERID(num)=####) where #### is a number you’ve set up in GV as a pinless-login. Then, the dial string can just be "ww2w${EXTEN}#". Works for me, at least…

By: ward

ward — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:50:06 +0000

Since the article appeared this morning, we’ve had several inquiries about how to configure Google Voice as an Asterisk trunk rather than as an extension. For instructions on how to do it as well as an explanation of the functional difference between a trunk and an extension in Asterisk, see the new paragraph at the end of the article.

By: Kerry Garrison

Kerry Garrison — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:22:50 +0000

I wish they would open Google Voice to more people, I don’t have an old Grand Central account but I will be playing around with this.

And thanks for the congrats.
-Kerry

By: Ronald Gibson

Ronald Gibson — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:17:37 +0000

It looks like Back Door Dialing is no more. I have a balance of $10, and it says that I need to add something for dialing out.

By: Kerry Garrison

Kerry Garrison — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:26:15 +0000

Ok, that is a seriously cool set of hacks there! I was wondering if it was going to be possible to utilize the voicemail transcription. Excellent work on figuring all this out.
-Kerry

[WM: You can certainly use the voicemail transcription with your own Google Voice account and the setup we’ve described. P.S. Congrats on the new job. 🙂 ]