Bill Simon’s Free SIP-to-XMPP Gateway Easily Puts Google Voice on Your VoIP Phone

May 4, 2012 By
googvoice_bubble

Unless you're an adventurous VoIP tinkerer, there is no easy do-it-yourself approach to getting Google Voice to work over an IP phone's unused line. Obihai Technologies series of Obi telephone adaptors allow you to easily use a basic analog phone with Google Voice, but some contortion is required to use an Obi with an IP phone, and even then it may not work. You can follow our guide to rigging an OBi together with Cisco SPA-series IP phones (or Polycom phones as Voxilla member "Priller" … [Read more...]

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Discouraged by Voxalot’s Planned Shutdown? PBXes Can Help

November 10, 2011 By
PBXes.com

The announced shutdown at year's end of the popular Voxalot SIP account aggregation service due to "rising costs of operation" has left many VoIP enthusiasts searching for an alternative. Though finding a direct replacement for the easy-to-use Voxalot is difficult, one service, PBXes.com, comes very close. Both Voxalot and PBXes.com allow advanced VoIP users to combine separate accounts on a virtual server (or, in the currently popular vernacular, the "cloud") so that user-authored dial … [Read more...]

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How To: OBify Your IP Phone (No Asterisk Involved)

February 15, 2011 By
OBi110

Do you have an extra line sitting empty on that IP phone on your desk? Here's an idea for it: Use it to make and receive Google Voice calls by linking it to an OBi110. Setting up an IP phone-OBi connection will also allow you to dial other OBi users directly and easily give the IP phone incoming and outgoing access to a PSTN line — including regular landline emergency 911 calling — with no other hardware needed. Follow along, and you will: Have incoming calls to your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Google Voice, How To, Must-Reads, Residential VoIP, VoIP, VoIP Hardware

How To: Use Google Voice and OBi for all your calls (free)

January 24, 2011 By
OBi110 inputs

Over the past few years, the VoIP do-it-yourself crowd has built — and shared with others — ingenious methods that give the trusty telephone greater power while driving down the price of its use. Most recently, some have focused much attention on getting Google Voice — and its free US and Canada calling and incoming telephone number (which Google has promised will continue to be free till 2012) — to work on any regular home phone. Until now, Google Voice on your phone … [Read more...]

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