[CentOS] OT: google voice + chat <- Re: finding the right serial port, enabling & configuring it [was: Re: fax software]>
Stephen Harris
lists at spuddy.org
Tue Mar 29 18:03:57 UTC 2011
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 01:37:22PM -0400, ken wrote:
>
> On 03/29/2011 01:21 PM Stephen Harris wrote:
> > With the right software and hardware (asterisk and an ATA) you can even
> > use the conjunction of google voice and google chat to act as a "real"
> > phone line. Indeed I just wrote up a process :-)
> > http://sweh.spuddy.org/gvoice/
> >
> > But I think that's getting a little off-topic :-)
>
> OT OK. So how does this conglomeration work? Say I have an OpenMoko
> phone (openmoko.org) and connect to google voice on the web... can I
What I described, above, is how to make a real phone work with google
voice. You pick up your phone and dial a number and it calls out via
google chat; someone calls your google voice number and your phone
rings as normal.
Basically it looks and acts like a phone line, but it's using google
to do all the work.
With OpenMoko you need a SIP client and configure it to talk to the
asterisk server (I'd _guess_ because I've never tried it).
It's possible you might find software for OpenMoko that can do the
googlevoice/googlechat juggling all inside the phone. Dunno.
But I'm not sure this is the best solution for a _mobile_ device.
You might just want to make your googlevoice number ring your cellphone
for incoming calls (which will use minutes), and use a SIP client for
outgoing calls (which will use data).
> talk like a human on a landline? What phone number do the other humans
> get... to call me?
When you sign up with google voice you can pick (from their options) the
phone number you want.
> ATA means
[...]
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Analog_telephone_adapter
This one; it's a small device that lets you plug in a real phone and it
will talk to a SIP server (asterisk, in this case).
--
rgds
Stephen
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