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Hardeep Singh Dang · 9 months ago

Hey Luca,

Thanks tried that. U forgot to mention that UNLESS u r a PAID Open Sky customer the call will last just 3 minutes. So not so Good an idea.

luca filigheddu · 9 months ago

It's FREE for up to 5 minutes, that I think is fine for most users. The average length of a phone call is 3 minutes.

Jason · 9 months ago

Far from free and no replacement for SkypeIn @ a 5 minute cap. To really compare SkypeIn you have to look at the OpenSky $20 annual charge.

paulsweeney · 9 months ago

That was an excellent hacking/ integration tip there.

Hardeep Singh Dang · 9 months ago

I actually tried it Sir. And It was 3 minutes. Practical experience. I prefer forwarding calls to Gtalk instead. Works fine and no limits.

And yes the ANNOYING voice prompts come up after 2 minutes and 40 seconds saying 20 seconds more left and then at 3 minutes the whole announcement "Your call has ended and blah blah and blah"

Jasmer · 8 months ago

I don't understand how you forwarded Google Voice to Google Talk? You receive the calls when your logged into Google Talk?

Hardeep Singh Dang · 8 months ago

Yes, U can receive calls on Your Google talk. I have been using it in 2 ways.

No.1-----> I got a Free DID ( A US no) from Groovytel.com which is forwarded for free to my Google talk & That number is 1 of the numbers I have in my Google Voice Account. SO my Google Talk rings when Anybody calls my Google Voice number.

No. 2----> I have set Gizmo calls to be diverted to My Google Talk and When anybody calls my GV number the calls get diverted to my Google Talk thru Gizmo5. I have been using Google Talk with Google Voice since Day1 and even used the same system with Grandcentral earlier.

The ONLY CONDITION is that You NEED to TURN OFF "Call Presentation" in the GV settings. Its because of the limitation of Google Talk having no Dialpad. So U cant have the option of sending a call to Voicemail or Listen in and stuff.

Works great.

facebook-656495516 · 4 months ago

How can you connect the DID number to Google Voice? You have to verify it by entering a two digit number. Google Talk does not allow you to do this. I am interested in knowing how you got this to work.

Hardeep Singh Dang · 4 months ago

get a DID from IPkall.com. st it up 2 forward on Gizmo5 and in Gizmo5 account set that up to forward all calls to Skype. Works well when you receive calls tlike this on Skype as you have the dialpad on Skype and I have verified phone nos. like that. So its a practical experience. Also I think if you get a DID and set it up to forward calls on Gizmo5 and have the software installed on your PC and receive calls on gizmo5 you can still punch in that 2 digit code from the Gizmo5 dialpad.

From Skype, it WORKS FOR SURE. From Gizmo5 it should but I am not that sure.

:)

Jed · 4 months ago

You can hold a phone up to your microphone and enter the code. I've done this with my cell.

dmichels · 8 months ago

I had to use this last night at Voicecon.

I forgot my cell phone (coming by fedex today). I did the steps above and it worked. I talked to my wife who does not have a sound card, she called my Google number from the phone.

Only 1 problem. The service limits you to 2.5 minutes unless you upgrade. I tried to upgrade last night, but the only option I found was a $320 annual fee to increase calls up to 2 hours. That seemed like a lot so we just kept having 2.5 minute calls.

Phoneboy on Twitter said there is a $20 option, but I could not find it. In fact, the my.gizmo page says OpenSky is turned off. Great service, but not very intuitive.

Michael Robertson · 8 months ago

Good tip Luca! Here's steps. Signup for Google Voice. Then go to my.gizmo5.com and signup for a free account and take note of your SIP number which begins with 747. Select a call forwarding option (Skype or Gtalk). Then go to GoogleVoice and add a phone and select "Gizmo" as the option. Enter the the 10 digit number which begins with 747 and you're done!

As we mentioned up to 5 minute calls are free (depends on load of the system). For longer calls it's $20/year because it takes quite a bit of engineering and computation to connect to Skype. Gtalk calls do not have the limitation.

Dmichels - There is a button on my.gizmo5.com which says "OpenSky". Click that after signing up for an account and there's a $20 single user option to sign up for OpenSky. It's a giant button so I'm not sure why you are not seeing it. The $320 option is for a company to sign up multiple users which some are doing so that all users of their network can call Skype users or have their SIP calls forwarded to Skype.

Another feature of OpenSky is that you can have Skype calls ring any SIP device such as a Nokia dual mode wifi phone, IP desktop phone or a wifi phone. This is included with the $20 OpenSky fee.

Leon · 8 months ago

I followed the steps to forward my GV number to Skype, and it does not work for me. I configured it exactly lije this.

In GV under settings chose the Gizmo number assigned to me. (I have never used htat number but it is registered in my account that way. Then I went to Gizmo and checked to forward to my skype account id which I use all the time. I call the GV number and does not ring or call my skype.

So what is it that I am doing wrong?

snoby · 8 months ago

hi every body how ru?

i hope ur fine
i want share peaceful speach share with u

Joonbug · 5 months ago

Thank you so much!!! But do we have to pay for open Sky??? What if we have a Skype subscription? is it still limited to 3 to 5 minutes???

Ozmo Camaris · 5 months ago

No workie anymore! Gizmo5 got wise to this and now you have to pay for a SIP number.

hadimettawa · 5 months ago

Do we know how we can link GoogleV to a sip url
example: sip:5613451212@foo.com

I see from the interface that 'sip:' , '@' and dots get droped and it calls 5612451212.

Thanks

casey_rawfoodguy · 4 months ago

This is exactly the information I needed to become 100% mobile and dodge the constraints of location-based work. Thank you!!

Angel Rodriquez · 4 months ago

Hardeep- I don't understand why you even need the first option of using Groovytel.com. Why not simply use *just* the second option and have Gizmo5 orward to GoogleTalk

netyale · 4 months ago

Is that possible to see the caller id in your Skype window?
Because I just see the open_sky_xx in it
It's not easy to identify who call me...

Anyone got this problem??

THanks....

Larry · 2 months ago

Works great EXCEPT. GV limits the time to connect the call to 25 seconds. More often than not my skype does not ring or only rings once before going to voicemnail. This is a major downside to this approach.

luca filigheddu · 2 months ago

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GABRIELLE RANKL · 2 months ago

How do I get a sip number of gizmo5. When I click on my profile, it shows a blank gray space for the sip number.

rainbowhill · 2 months ago

I tried this, signed up for Gizmo5 but when I went to Google Voice I got "not available in your country" even though I accepted the invitation 6 months ago and I could log in then. Only a little miffed.