Google Voice as a trunk (without OBI or Simonics)

[MusicInstructor]

I made a search for this in the forum and got the impression that it is doable but I don't know how and the explanations I found contained a link to Google Voice Developers which for me was the equivalent of indentifying left handed people in a stadium.

Does anyone know how to achieve this?

Regards,

Ed

 

[craigreilly]

not sure it is possible:
http://nerdvittles.com/?p=27274

 

[BrenttG]

So i have researched this extensively, it used to be doable a number of ways, but then google changed their protocols on Google Voice and they are no longer standard SIP/RTP, at present there is no longer any reliable or feasible way of doing it without proprietary hardware that talks to google, and I've heard there's problems even in that route...

Your better of not even bothering, i spent a week one time trying to get a work around to get it going and im a software developer among other things, i did not meet with success, and decided it was more trouble than it was worth.

 

[MusicInstructor]

That's unfortunate!
I am however curious about how the OBI devices implemented the proprietary hardware part. Just like there are so many hardware emulations in code the Obihai is cheap enough that I would imagine the hardware could be licensed in its software counterpart so that its emulation could run on an X86 environment I would imagine. It will just take a few more CPU cycles on the machine/s but I'm no software developer so unless someone else has it somehow runningin their system I won't mess with it on my own. That's for sure