how to get google voice number

ckleea

If you need to set up google voice account, either you are in US or use VPN to pretend your registration in US.

Steps
1. create your gmail account, you need to be of @gmail.com not the apps account in order to use with OBi
2. use IPKALL http://www.ipkall.com to register a US physical phone number (this number will forward to your VOIP account so that you can answer the call)
3. establish VPN to US so that your network IP is now having a US IP
4. login http://voice.google.com, using your gmail account user name and password
5. ask for a phone number and select on your choice
6. put in the IPKALL number so that the first run of google voice can be forward to the IPKALL for confirmation
7. when google asks for confirmation, your VOIP softclient will ring and reply with your google voice confirmation code on the screen.
8. once done, you will have a US number from google

Note: the number cannot be used for registration with another google voice number
IPKALL may return the US phone number to you within minutes but sometimes you may not receive it for hours. SO you should get ready before proceeding to step 3.

For VPN, you may try this http://anonymitynetwork.com/. This does not require to install a new software in your PC, but just to establish a VPN connection in your network setting with the server, username/passaword provided.

Free trial allows for a 3 hours access. It is more than enough to have everything done.

Enjoy!

bubblestar

很清晰的Google Voice 申請程序指引

另外，順便一提，當OBi110 upgrade 新firmware 之後，每一個Google Voice A/C 基本上是同時可以支援 2 個 Sessions 的 (即兩個incoming call 或一個 incoming call + 一個 outgoing call，理論上，兩個outgoing call 也可以)

如果想把 OBi110 的 SP1 及 SP2 全部設定成 Google Voice 用途，可以用一個GV A/C 便同時有 4 個 simulataneous sessions 了，利用OBi110  的 Trunk Group 1 串連 SP1 及 SP2 便可以達成。

因此，無需要申請同等數量的GV accounts 去放入 OBi110 Device 的。

註: 要同時四條線使用，但physical phone port 只有一個，那麼，部份線路無可避免一定要連接Asterisk協助及實現。

以下有很好的教學:

http://michigantelephone.wordpre ... obihai-users-happy/

http://michigantelephone.wordpre ... he-obitalk-network/

ckleea

可惜未有時間深入研究，暫時仲用緊SPA3000 as PSTN gateway；不過開始準備定多一個GV account，起碼一個可以放OBi110，另一個繼續放asterisk

bubblestar

說得對，所以我最初也一次過申請了 2 個 A/C，可能再多一個會較有彈性，方便測試及日後調配。

ckleea

回復 4# bubblestar


    IPKall 未必可以準備咁多 line for us。

bubblestar

回復 5# ckleea


   
反而申請前要準備不同的Email address 去登記帳戶，用相同email 多數會唔得。

bubblestar

另外，如果要用IPKall，一定要定期使用它，否則會被沒收IPKall 號碼。所以有時間的話，都始終要利用自己的PBX 耐不耐一次過打晒俾呢D 號碼，證明不是idle。

例如

exten => 8888,1,Dial(SIP/ipkall_no@ipkall.com&SIP/ipkall_no@ipkall.com)

然後把線飛到去自己一些指定及沒咩用的extension 或 voicemail 算數。

最重要是，ipkall 只是扮演中介角色，沒有它不成。但現在GV 已經可以直接用Asterisk 1.8 或 OBi110 直接撥打出去。中間已經可以不用通過ipkall 飛線入來了。

ckleea

One may also try this to schedule a call at defined time

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+auto-dial+out

I am still figuring out how to do i.e. a cron job to mv the file into the directory in the right interval e.g. weekly

ckleea

已解決。不過如果你有多個一個account，最好分開唔同時間打，因為process唔到咁多calls.

bubblestar

聽到你提到的建議，我第一時間想到的是，其實是否可以簡單到用dial plan 解決呢? 例如用 gotoiftime() 這些function.

不同方法都值得學習，也有可取之處。

ckleea

回復 10# bubblestar
Not try goiftime()

But what I do now is to create a different .call file and a cron job to put the call file into /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ directory to process. I just use GV to call (it is free).

ckleea

As stated before, we have many devices and VOIP accounts. What we need to do is to make some integrations so that we won't forget the existing one while playing with the new one.

Therefore, some automated and scheduled tasks are required.

bubblestar

有道理, espcially what we really need are automated and scheduled tasks.  Thats so thoughtful of you.

ckleea

其实我在想，有没有需要用美国电话号码，因为我主要是中港英使用。

反而应该考虑在不同地方，怎样可以取得最平(免费最好)的PSTN number。

系外国，最大的问题是太大，离开一个城市就好多时当national calls。

例如，在英国伦敦，localcall 可以免费，但national calls要俾钱，全国通如0845, 0844，手提要收钱。

从家人安排上，除���有部lulu级的OBi110，即刻用到。去街用手提又想打返香港其他friends，就要用IP01帮手。

我见到英国最平VOIP DID 可以月费US$1；但只供incoming，outgoing 另计。

香港最平HK$3X, NWT 同CMphone 都用唔到系asterisk。虽然2b 就可以，不过要HK$8x

有没有好介绍？

bubblestar

回復 8# ckleea


   
As suggested, I have managed to set up this kind of periodic auto-dial-out mechanism using cron to maintain my IPKall account.

Thanks, CK.