Comments on: Make Free Phone Calls with Google Voice, Gizmo, and Orgasmatron V: Google Voice Edition

By: GeekLad

GeekLad — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:59:10 +0000

Set the Gizmo forward to gv-incoming

By: Jay H

Jay H — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:11:07 +0000

I'm confused… do you set the Gizmo forwarding to “gv-incoming” or “gv-ringback”?

By: Vasisht Srinivasan

Vasisht Srinivasan — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:26:11 +0000

Yeah RingAll has all 16 preconfigured extensions listed

By: Vasisht Srinivasan

Vasisht Srinivasan — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:53:48 +0000

I guess I don't see how gv-incoming even gets triggered with this setup – calls to my google voice will ring on my gizmo ringback number which forwards to gv-ringback which goes to the google voice callpark. How does gv-incoming even play in this scenario?

By: GeekLad

GeekLad — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:52:00 +0000

Do you have extensions 701 and 705 in the RingAll group? Sounds like
everything is set up correctly.

By: Vasisht Srinivasan

Vasisht Srinivasan — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:51:48 +0000

gv-incoming is set to ring to RingAll <700>
gv-ringback is set to Custom GV-Park
I have a copy of X-Lite connected to extension 701 and Fring on my iPhone connected to 705
My Gizmo5 account is set to forward all calls to gv-ringback@mydynsdomain.com and my router is forwarding ports 10000-20000 and 5002-5080 to my asterisk server running on a bridged VMWare copy of PBX in flash (so it has its own ip address on the network.) Calls to my google phone # go to voicemail after ringing for about 10 seconds now and neither ext 701 or 705 ring...

By: GeekLad

GeekLad — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:48:40 +0000

Be sure you log into an extension that is in the ring group connected to the
inbound route set up to ring w/ the GV inbound.

By: Vasisht Srinivasan

Vasisht Srinivasan — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:26:08 +0000

Thanks a bunch! This was an awesome tutorial. I can now dial out perfectly..though for some reason incoming calls end up not ringing and go to voicemail after 5 seconds. I'm not sure what's going on but I figured maybe someone else has this problem or knows how to work around it?

By: john

john — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:59:43 +0000

If you are running on mac or linux (or windows) you could also download the free zoiper softphone

By: GeekLad

GeekLad — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:04:42 +0000

Yes. There's no limitation to the amount of time that can be spent on the
outbound call.

By: vigneshwar

vigneshwar — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:42:15 +0000

What is the difference between this method and the one using googlevoice, gizmo and linksys PAPA2T ATA device. Is the outbount call time unlimited on this method?

I read about this on http://googlevoiceandgizmo.blogspot.com/

By: www.hdfilmes.tv

www.hdfilmes.tv — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:31:18 +0000

Alright, thanks for the help — I think I'm going to try out the PIAF forums, perhaps one of their gurus will know what I've done wrong.

By: GeekLad

GeekLad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:34:23 +0000

Very odd… Yeah, the IPkall wait period was why I went about using Gizmo.
Well, I'm glad you got it working!

By: WinnP

WinnP — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:10:35 +0000

I got my IPKall DID after only waiting about 14 hours (I'd heard sometimes it takes days or weeks), so I just switched to that. Now it works fine. Have no clue what was wrong with Gizmo5!

By: babcocca

babcocca — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:59:48 +0000

I am looking forward to the virtual appliance!

By: GeekLad

GeekLad — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:36:09 +0000

Yeah, the PBX in a Flash forum may be of better help than I have been.
Sorry I wasn't able to help you out. If you do finally find a fix in the
PIAF forums, please feel free to post the solution here. Best of luck!

By: WinnP

WinnP — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:28:49 +0000

Alright, thanks for the help — I think I'm going to try out the PIAF forums, perhaps one of their gurus will know what I've done wrong. I'm sure I just messed up a single keystroke somewhere along the way.

By: GeekLad

GeekLad — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:51:53 +0000

Something else you can try, is to go into the General Settings screen and
setting Allow Anonymous Inbound SIP Calls? to yes. This could potentially
have security implications (for example, if you have an IVR). I'm somewhat
of an Asterisk noobie myself, so use this feature with caution.

It may be a good way to test things out to see if the box is indeed
receiving the calls. Ultimately, I think you want to get things set up
properly with the trunks, routes, and extensions so that you are able to
properly receive calls without having to set that option. I'm still a bit
fuzzy on setting these things up the right way, which is why I turned to
Orgasmatron since he already had all the trunks, routes, and extensions all
set up.

I'm still puzzled as to why it isn't working for you though. Everything
should be all set w/ the trunks, routes, and extensions so it shouldn't be
necessary to open up the system to anonymous inbound SIP calls.

By: WinnP

WinnP — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:33:33 +0000

Thanks… I assume you mean the call logs I can access on /admin/reports.php via the web interface? I just tried two calls (one incoming, one outgoing) and they both show up as “Answered” on that log. However, the incoming call rang for awhile then went to my GV voicemail and the outgoing call just gave me the hold music for 50 seconds then said “Goodbye.”

By: GeekLad

GeekLad — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:10:35 +0000

I would check the Asterisk call logs to see if the calls are coming in at
all. Just click on the Reports tab at the top of the FreePBX administration
window. If Gizmo5 is forwarding properly, you should see entries being
added to the call log. If not, then the problem is either with the router
port forwarding or with the Gizmo5 forwarding.

I've messed it up a few times on the Gizmo5 forwarding, because I would
click the SIP radio button but forgot to click on the Forwarding All Calls
radio button.