G+_John Mink Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Ok, I'm probably being hopelessly out of date, but yesterday on AAA Gina Trapani said : her computer rings when she gets a Google Voice call....how does that work? And is it only incoming or can you do outgoing calls too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joseph Cappellino Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Go into Google Voice --> Settings --> Phones [1] --> Enable Google Chat. This will now forward your GV calls to Hangouts on the web and probably iOS. This will soon come to Hangouts on Android (either tomorrow, as it's the cutoff for external use of the XMPP backend, or maybe even Google I|O). You could always do outgoing calls from Hangouts (press the "call number" button). [1] https://www.google.com/voice/#phones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joe Phelps Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 https://support.google.com/voice/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_John Mink Posted May 14, 2014 Author Share Posted May 14, 2014 Thanks Joe Phelps and Joseph Cappellino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_John Mink Posted May 14, 2014 Author Share Posted May 14, 2014 Looks like I spoke too soon....both of those are for making calls but neither alerts me to incoming calls (except for the missed call/voicemail from Google Voice) but no "my computer rings when I get a call" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joseph Cappellino Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 John Mink - Interesting. It works for me. You need to be logged into Hangouts for it to work. Try installing this Chrome extension [1]. It keeps you logged into Hangouts whenever the host machine is on. [1] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hangouts/nckgahadagoaajjgafhacjanaoiihapd?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_John Mink Posted May 14, 2014 Author Share Posted May 14, 2014 Joseph Cappellino that...that's probably it. I turned hangouts off because I use pidgin for chat, but I guess that'll be changing soon, so maybe this will be my new approach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joseph Cappellino Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 John Mink - Pidgin was nice, but I don't use any of the other services anymore. I don't even know if any of my other contacts still use it either. LOL. Also, it's nice to have the consistent interface and features across my devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_John Mink Posted May 14, 2014 Author Share Posted May 14, 2014 Joseph Cappellino steam is actually the (other) big one I use it for, as I find the steam chat to be terrible. Yeah, things like AIM and MSN are largely dead, although I still know a few people who use them...but they're certainly the minority. As for consistent interface, I don't see a big benefit to that cross platform...there's just SO many other things that are different (not just the UI but even the physical interface) that I don't find myself getting lost in chat going right, I forgot i'm not on my phone. Whereas I find myself saying that with standalone clients all the time.... So I guess I'm more unify within device whereas you're more across device. Different people, different preferences, it's just sad we can't have it BOTH ways :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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