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2011-04-03
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@ SF Bay Area
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Also, general development question... is there a particular reference you're using for google voice APIs and your DialCentral development?
I'm not overly familiar with Python, but I have a fair amount of development background with C/C++, Perl, CGI, etc... and wants/needs can be a good development motivator
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2011-04-04
, 14:51
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@ Austin, TX
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Is there any chance that some of the google voice contact groups functionality could be added to DialCentral, e.g. being able to view your contact groups, add specific google contacts to groups, adjusting calling settings per group, tweaking call settings for particular contacts, etc... available via google voice settings on the web?
Also, general development question... is there a particular reference you're using for google voice APIs and your DialCentral development?
The basis for most API out there has been a result of Chad Smith posting his results.
I used most of those results in my app and I'm reasonably sure so did Ed.
I'm not overly familiar with Python, but I have a fair amount of development background with C/C++, Perl, CGI, etc... and wants/needs can be a good development motivator
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2011-04-04
, 15:06
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Joined on Nov 2007
@ California USA
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Access to contact groups for the purpose of broadcasting SMS messages I think is a great idea.
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2011-04-04
, 15:21
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@ Austin, TX
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Although I have over 200 google contacts, even in google voice I can only send a text to 5 contacts at a time. In DC it would be great to send the same text to a google contact group.
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2011-04-04
, 18:43
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@ California, USA
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Access to contact groups for the purpose of broadcasting SMS messages I think is a great idea.
I've tended to shy away from contact management (editing contacts but group management would also fit under that) as that would best be implemented elsewhere (libfolks? qtcontacts? contact sync? other contact apis?).
Managing of contact groups specifically with GV is something more applicable to DC and having that without contact management would be odd so it could justify support for it. I'm a bit mixed about how much of all of GV's settings to put into DC though. I at least rarely use them so keeping GV simple at the cost of going to the website seems acceptable. Thoughts? Use cases?
Originally everything was based off of imitating the gv mobile page. Eventually I added support for things on Chad Smith's page. Also looking at the official Chrome extensions source is helpful. I also saw a thing or two on misc other google voice apis.
I find I rarely touch the GV APIs much these days, most of the work is on UI features on top.
I'd love assistance and as a fulltime C++ developer, Python has been my preferred dynamic language to learn. You can also consider helping uvatbc out with qgvdial. I personally am not much of a fan of the split development. The way I think of the difference in DC and qgvdial (hopefully not offending uvatbc) is that DC is an end-user app while qgvdial is a tech demo with every feature possible added but work needed on making it usable.
I'd recommend forking the project and playing with it
https://github.com/epage/DialCentral
Since you talked about the APIs:
Session management, threading, caching, etc layer:
https://github.com/epage/DialCentral...src/session.py
GV API to DC Adapter (makes working with TOR easier)
https://github.com/epage/DialCentral...oice/gvoice.py
GV API
https://github.com/epage/DialCentral...oice/gvoice.py
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2011-04-04
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@ Austin, TX
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I tend to use the contact/groups management in google voice to do intelligent filtering of my calls, since I only give out my google voice number lately, rather than my actual cell numbers, work, personal, etc...
I'm guessing my usage is somewhat typical for people who really try to leverage their google voice number to do the same sorts of things.
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2011-04-04
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@ California, USA
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I've only given my GV number out for the last 3 years. I just have no need for filtering and have gotten pretty lazy about even creating contacts for people.
Mind helping me understand the use case? Understanding use cases helps to determine what features need to be added and how the UI should be setuo.
I think I am curious about the following
- How much do you configure per contact added
- How often do you add contacts
- How much juggling of existing contacts do you do on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis?
- What types of things are you configuring
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2011-04-07
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@ California, USA
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#1679
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2011-04-10
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@ East Lansing, MI
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Also, general development question... is there a particular reference you're using for google voice APIs and your DialCentral development?
I'm not overly familiar with Python, but I have a fair amount of development background with C/C++, Perl, CGI, etc... and wants/needs can be a good development motivator