Thread: [Announce] qgvdial: Google Voice client for Qt platforms
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2013-05-05 , 07:34
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Originally Posted by MTCONE View Post
What is the status of this app?
Status of the app and its developer: Its alive!! Its aliiiive!

Originally Posted by MTCONE View Post
I have installed it (apt-get).
I have no SIM card in my phone, I am connected over WiFi.
I have my SIP account (SipGate) set up in my GV account as my call back number. qgvdial recognizes it, and I have it set to Dial Back on my SIP number.
But when I try to make a call, nothing happens.
That is interesting...
Making a call means sending a request to the Google Voice servers.
qgvdial initiates this request and waits up to 30 seconds for a response. Without an "ok" response from the server, you're not going to get a call back on your SIP number.
Network problems (among others) can interfere with the call process.

Originally Posted by MTCONE View Post
When I try again, it says a call is in progress.
The previous call request hasn't timed out.

Originally Posted by MTCONE View Post
Now I get constant notifications saying Call Progress 100%. The app appears to run in the background? No way to close it?
qgvdial *does* run in the background by default.
Press and hold the close button to really quit.

Originally Posted by MTCONE View Post
Does this have anything to do with "Enable Phone Integration"? What is that for?
Thats a feature that isn't working yet. Ignore it for the moment.

Google changed its authentication mechanism a few weeks back and everything in qgvdial stopped working.
At the time this happened I was working on the phone integration and I needed to keep that aside to get the auth working again.
I pushed out a new release without the phone integration bits.

The result is that the UI has the button but it doesnt do anything .... yet.

Originally Posted by MTCONE View Post
Another issue I have is with 2-step authentication. If you want to use your N900 for free calls only (Sip + GV), then you would need to receive a text to log into qgvdial, and if you aren't logged in, you can't retrieve this text. So you are stuck.
Google has specifically mentioned that you shouldn't use your Google Voice number as the SMS authentication method - to avoid the exact problem that you've described!
But wait! I know what you want to do and here's a workaround that I use:
Somewhere in GV there is a setting to send all texts to gmail.
Use that and the 2 factor sms will be sent as an email to your gmail, which you should have configured on your n900.

Originally Posted by MTCONE View Post
"Fallback Dial Failed" is what happens when I try to call a third party from the app. The built in phone app pops up and immediately disconnects.
Send me logs. click on the send logs button in the app.

Originally Posted by MTCONE View Post
Also, every time I log in, it asks for my application-specific password, again. Which means I have to get on a computer and generate a new password for it.
Again: Logs please.

Originally Posted by MTCONE View Post
Am I doing something wrong? Er, how much am I doing wrong?
Lets get qgvdial working for you.
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qgvdial: Google Voice client. All downloads
qgvtp: Phone integration for the n900 that dials out and sends texts using qgvdial.
mosquitto: message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.
qgvnotify: Google voice and contacts notifier for diablo and maemo.

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