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!

仁杰

我的担心是IPKall毕竟也要微利经营才好可持续的免费服务，转接通可能有话费分成什么的
如果不接听也算服务的话，是否对应的SIP帐号不在线也可以，甚至无效的帐号，毕竟IPKall后面的东西前面的任何人也不容易控制

如果活跃是如此宽松定义的话，其实只要申请一个专用GV帐号绑定所有需要维持的IPKall号码，定期呼叫该GV号即可，其实一号多铃正是GV最重要的特性

目前IPKall还可以用于一些移动终端上的Google Voice软件直接拨打GV电话，既本机GV主叫并选择本机IPKall SIP回拨接听

bubblestar

我的理解是不接聽應該也算是有用到該服務的，它提供的只是轉線到指定的號碼，有沒有人聽已不再是任何人所能控制的。

所以我們現在也開始想辦法在Asterisk Server 全自動定期撥打往某條內線，目的只是撥打出去使用一下IPKall 的服務，可以不真正接聽，從而保留帳戶。因為有了OBi110 之後，沒有必要經過它轉駁了。但沒有它也不行，日後若OBi110 有什麼問題，大家也無需再申請IPKall，而且GV 一定要用一個Landline 去登記，所以應想辦法予以保留。

仁杰

我也有在用IPKall号码，但有个细节还不太明白，就是所谓号码活跃的定义
是否一定要有通话时间才活跃，仅仅有呼叫算不算，比如IPKall绑定SIP Phone，然后每月定期用GV呼叫这些IPKall号码，家里的SIP Phone也会响，只要接听了我知道肯定没问题，就是想知道不接听的话算不算？甚至SIP Phone关机不在线的情况呢

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.

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

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

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.

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).

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

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.

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

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。

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。

ckleea

回復 4# bubblestar


    IPKall 未必可以準備咁多 line for us。