Comments on: R.I.P. GVSIP: A Final Farewell to Google Voice

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 21:29:57 +0000

I just saw that Google Voice is going to be 💯% VoIP. Will that make it work with incrediblepbx again?

[WM: I doubt it. Some proprietary VoIP flavor would be my guess. But time will tell.]

By: donald schmitt

donald schmitt — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:31:39 +0000

Ward,
How much support will you be lending to the OBi200 and OBi202 in the future?
I would love to see an article for the home/office user highlighting the RPi-3 attaching to the OBi units with GV and any other VoiP suppliers.
A simple straight forward setup.
I just purchased an OBi200 for my son’s home since the demise of GVSIP so that he can still use the same GV number without worry for a long time to come.
I want to put the RPi-3 behind it to protect from unwanted calls and to notify when there is a power failure since I wrote .callout scripts to interface to the APC UPS system.

Thanks for all the great work you and your team do!
I’ve been around with you since the AAH days and still write BASH/HTML scripting for your systems.
Retired for the last 5 years now and just tinker.

Thanks Again!
TomS (Tom Schmitt)

By: SomeRandomGuy

SomeRandomGuy — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 01:22:16 +0000

I have started moving away from google myself, switching from chrome to firefox, switching from google from search to mystatepage.com, GV and my last switch over will be email. Has anyone used proton email? Think I’m going to end up porting my GV number to voip.ms I tried them out and have not had any issues with them yet.

I thought thought I saw something about the FCC trying to push out something to block caller ID spoofing, guess that’s the next big disruptive thing that’s going to happen. The only reason I use that on my end at the moment is to make it look like my voip.ms is my GV number on outgoing calls but soon as that gets ported over no biggie I guess.

By: Centar

Centar — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 02:15:08 +0000

Google Voice is back up as of 11/20/2018

By: James

James — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:17:02 +0000

While painful like most config changes in asterisk, I’ve successfully moved off GV. Still I need to find an eventual solution for SMS. Looks like the implementations that exist are for specific providers (and not the new one I picked! – Twilio) Thanks for your feedback on these issues over the last year.

By: bxbxbx

bxbxbx — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 01:54:32 +0000

Google is no longer the company we grew up with.

RIP

By: Learjet

Learjet — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 22:14:45 +0000

Whatever. I love Google Voice, true "VOIP" or not. All I care about are the benefits of the service, which are many. Your misleading headline makes it sound like it’s closing shop. It’s NOT and thank God for that!

By: Jon9314

Jon9314 — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 14:27:41 +0000

So this is why my gvsip just stopped working? This sucks😩.
Only had it setup so I had a landline for kids when we weren’t home. Never got much use. How far would that 50.00 credit go in a situation like this?

[WM: DIDs are a dollar a month and calls are about a penny a minute. You can take it from there.]

By: Herman

Herman — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:19:53 +0000

The biggest problem for me is that I still use my GV number for SMS on my cell. What services can I move to that will work with ipbx and still let me use the sms on my android? [WM: See our SMS tutorial for VoIP.ms. That's probably the easiest option, and messages are free.]

By: Jamie Owens

Jamie Owens — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 05:34:48 +0000

Dead? RIP? Nah, as long as there are users there will always be a fix.

Fixed mine already and my gvsip trunks are registered and online yet again.

https://interbiznw.com/2018/11/17/asterisk-gvsip-google-voice-broken/

By: beavis

beavis — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 02:55:57 +0000

I just switched my default search engine to duckduckgo. I feel if they want to track me and resell my information then I am entitled to a little bit of compensation. In other words, I should be able to use googlevoice on my home asterisk server. I may not like duckduckgo; however, I’m willing to give it a try. Next is gmail migration. . .

By: marc8lange

marc8lange — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 22:56:56 +0000

The problem with removing your articles is there is now no written process to remove GVSIP from a PBX in an orderly manner.

[WM: /root/gvsip-naf/del-trunk will let you delete any existing trunks you have. Renaming /etc/asterisk/pjsip_custom.conf to pjsip_custom.conf.old will remove GVSIP support from Asterisk once you issue: amportal restart.]

By: Frick

Frick — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 18:00:44 +0000

Localphone iNum is not free any more.

[WM: Fixed. Thanks.]