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Charles Young said
Poor caller ID name lookups are the reason that I have not tried to use a local YATE gateway with the free PBX that you know and hate. I will be watching to see if Free Switch does better. For now, Bill Simon’s GV gateway gives excellent caller ID name info.
Moderator edit: Corrected spelling of Bill Simon’s name and added link.
Mo said
since I installed a yate server 6 months ago my google voice issues are null
michigantelephone said
Looks like they tried to fix the bug in FreeSWITCH and failed spectacularly – see my edit in the next to last paragraph. Meanwhile, YATE continues to work like a champ.
Gerrit Visser said
I moved to Windows Server to get away from the ‘this app need Centos, the other needs Ubuntu’ mess.
Andrew Nagy said
Also Asterisk/Digium have restarted their efforts to make Google Talk work in Asterisk 11 with ‘chan_motif’. From my tests it worked fine behind two or three firewalls with no issues.
michigantelephone said
That’s great to hear, however I wonder if there will ever be a decent web-based GUI that works with Asterisk 11, particularly one that does not operate under the assumption that the bulk of its users are rank beginners or have low I.Q.’s.
sriram said
I am looking for a way to get callerid lookup in Yate as well; If Bill Simon ‘s GVGW gives a good CID lookup (perhaps he uses superfecta or some such thing on a different server?), there probably is a way to get CID lookup working in Yate itself..
Anthony Minessale said
Hi, We have no open issues involving google voice calls not working.
I think we had some open jiras with some configuration issues a month or so back but they are all resolved…..
michigantelephone said
Anthony, that’s good to hear. At some point, probably after the start of the new year (assuming that the end of the Mayan calendar does not mean the end of the world), I hope to take a look at FusionPBX and/or blue.box again. The issue you guys have is that sometimes the GUI installers don’t install the latest version of FreeSWITCH, and if you try to upgrade FreeSWITCH to the latest version then the GUI breaks (and there is no easy path to roll back to the previous version).
I’ll actually be interested to see what the blue.box people do in their new version. I understand it’s going to be a significant rewrite so just maybe I can figure it out. Right at this moment I like the FusionPBX GUI better but I had enough frustration in actually trying to make it work as it should (and in the fact that they have no forum where you can view previously-resolved issues) that I reluctantly gave up on it for now.