Has Google killed the ability to call a Google Voice number via SIP that we just learned about in the past few days? My post yesterday seems to have resonated with many folks who rushed to try it… only to find that it didn’t work!
Or perhaps did work for a bit and then stopped working. Even Todd Vierling, the person who first wrote about this back on Saturday, now updated his post with this text:
[Update March 8: It seems this service is no longer working, starting yesterday evening. sigh. I was hoping to see the security bugs patched up, not for the service to be pulled down again like it was in early 2009. Please, Google Voice people, throw us a bone here and let us know what’s really going on for once!]
The folks over at OnSIP published a blog post saying that sip.voice.google.com was now silent and also engaged with a whole number of us on Twitter on the topic. Ward Mundy over at NerdVittles initially came out with a post detailing how to make this work with FreePBX and then updated that post to indicate that it is no longer working.
Comments to my original post indicated some folks were having problems… and I’ve seen more similar comments in Twitter.
Here’s the thing…
IT IS STILL WORKING PERFECTLY FINE FOR ME! 🙂
Using the bare bones SJphone softphone on my iMac, I can still call into my own GV number over SIP without any problem. I can also call other people’s GV numbers over SIP, too. I spoke for about 15 minutes with a friend of mine calling from my SJphone over to his GV number and reaching him on his mobile.
So it continues to work for me… but not for others. If you are on Twitter, could you perhaps let me know if you are able to call into a GV number via SIP? (Or leave a comment here to this blog post.) Perhaps if we can identify a few more folks who can call into GV via SIP we might be able to understand what’s going on.
Of course, what would be best would be if Google would give us a clue about this service! Is this something experimental that people weren’t/aren’t supposed to know about? Is it something to be released that got out a bit too early? It’s pretty obviously not production-ready…
Anyway, if you can call into GV via SIP, please do let those of us digging into it know. Would love to know the softphone you are using and perhaps the ISP you are connected to. Thanks!
P.S. My internet connection comes from Time Warner cable.
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TITLE: Summary: Links to Posts on Calling Google Voice using SIP
BLOG NAME: Disruptive Telephony
Given that I’ll be the guest on today’s VUC call in about an hour discussing this topic, here’s a list of some of the posts involved in the recent saga around Google Voice and SIP. On Saturday, March 5, 2011,…
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TITLE: Google Voice Via SIP – Not Dead Yet… (The Saga Continues)
BLOG NAME: Disruptive Telephony
So maybe calling into Google Voice via SIP isn’t as dead as I thought it was… multiple people have now left comments to my original posts indicating that they could call into their Google Voice number via SIP. And sure…
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TITLE: Google Voice Via SIP – It’s Dead, Jim
BLOG NAME: Disruptive Telephony
So there it is… connecting to a Google Voice number via a SIP address no longer works for me, too. After I wrote on Monday about how you could connect to Google Voice numbers via a SIP URI, many folks…
When I dial @sip.voice.google.com … the dialer tries for like a minute and times out, but if I change the address to something like @sipppy.voice.google.com that fails right away. So it does look like the sip.voice.google.com is still somehow live behind the scenes…
bash$ host sip.voice.google.com
sip.voice.google.com is an alias for voice-sip.l.google.com.
voice-sip.l.google.com has address 74.125.95.192
something is there.
Just dropping by to say that your Google Contacts on the web browser interface to Google contacts now allows you to store a SIP number as an “Internet Call” number when you add a new phone number. It puts it in proper form for you. These also show up on my Nexus one running Gingerbread.
So Clearly Google is already to support SIP in Gingerbread, and maybe Google Voice won’t be far behind
Could you give a few more details on your setup?
You say you’re able to call from your regular SIP account using SJPhone on a Mac.
Are other people able to call your GV number via SIP?
What SIP provider are you using on SJPhone?
Are there GV numbers you’ve been unable to call via SIP?
As for myself, I tried to call my GV account using my sip2sip account. I followed the form you used in your previous article (sip:+1XXXXXXXXXX@sip.voice.google.com). I also tried sip:XXXXXXXXXX@sip.voice.google.com. In both cases, it tried to connnect for a little while, and then hung up. I’m using Blink softphone on Windows. Haven’t tried it with other softphones yet, but I’ll try it with Sipdroid on my Archos tablet in a little while to see if that works, and with Blink and sflphone on Ubuntu when I get home tonight.
Also, when you call your GV account via SIP, does it only ring in Gmail, or does it also ring on your phones as well?
Finally, have you figured out how to make outgoing SIP calls from Gmail?
Ideally, we should be able to log into Google Voice using any sip client. That would be perfect for me, as I’d be able get rid of my other sip account, and my IPkall account, since I only use those for GV.
(Still) works for me calling from Blink on the Mac to my cell phone. I don’t think you can make outgoing SIP calls from Gmail. But since Yate talks both Jingle and SIP it’s possible to set it up as a gateway so outgoing calls will show up with my GV number; will do that when I get some time.