maemo.org - Talk - Gizmo5 and Google Voice

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Originally Posted by epage (Post 564614)

TOR just uses the GV website, initiating the callback.

That's what I figured, and that's the problem. That's the ONE feature I need in my setup.

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Originally Posted by losvedir (Post 564622)

Gyah, I too have Google Voice and Gizmo5 and never found a great solution. Tried Skype, too.

I didn't have GV present the call to me (I just answered it), so I did manage to make a connection. Are you sure you can't press 1? I thought at first it didn't accept key presses but determined later that it did, in theory, just there was too much latency.

The main problem with using Gizmo5 and SIP is that even on WiFi the quality just wasn't good enough. At the best of times there was enough latency to make conversations somewhat awkward. At the worst of times, only half of the calls actually ended up ringing on my phone, the other half went straight to voicemail. On 3G or below -- forget it.

I tried having GV ring both my cell and SIP, so that if I had strong WiFi I could answer with SIP, and I could answer with my cell otherwise. Unfortunately, there seems to be a bug ( http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38102 ) which does not allow the N900 to have a SIP and phone connection simultaneously. So, my cell would ring, a second later the SIP would ring, and then they would disconnect each other and send the call to voicemail.

I tried throwing Skype into the mix -- A $5/month SkypeIn account will give you a phone number, which you can have Google Voice ring. It works better than SIP. The problem is that Skype has had a missing feature for a few years now that won't let you disable its voicemail. So all the calls end up on Skype's voicemail, rather than GV's, and you don't get the nifty transcription. You can have Skype forward the call to GV's voicemail instead of its voicemail, but then you need SkypeOut credits and have to pay more. Hmm....

In the end, I gave up and just use my cell minutes. Maybe now that Google has bought Gizmo, eventually they'll work it out so it's better. In the Caller -> GV -> Gizmo5 -> N900 chain, I'm not sure where the latency is greatest, but hopefully at least the GV -> G5 latency will go away.

I'm watching this thread with anticipation. Hopefully, someone's found a solution I didn't....

See, when using Skype, I didn't get that much latency, and the calls were pretty good considering. I do have SkypeOut for as much as I use it for work, I just pay the $2.95/mo for unlimited calling and make it easy. I don't want to have to setup ANOTHER phone number for something that should be very easy.

As for latency, if there is so much latency that 5 seconds isn't long enough for a key press to register, then it's not even worth trying to get it working. I only plan on using this setup at home on Wifi anyways, since that's where most of my calling happens, I'm not too worried about cell signal (since I'm on AT&T it's not like i get 3G anyways...).

I do hope (and I've seen threads/speculation on this), that GV is just eventually supported natively, but that would mean GV supporting SIP natively as well, without need an intermediary to handle the call connection as it does now. I just can't believe there isn't a solution out there yet for this issue, it seems that with the geek atmosphere surrounding the N900, this would've been one of the first things to happen, take major advantage of SIP and wifi capabilities with such a powerful phone...

I guess I keep waiting and see if anyone has any other ideas.