Hello:
I’m pretty new to the Asterisk/FreePBX scene, but did a lot of reading and was able to figure most of everything out, except this one thing. Here’s the situation and my setup.
I have a Google Voice trunk/inbound route/outbound route setup using the Google Talk client on Asterisk 1.8.4. Outbound calls are OK but I get unreliable results with inbound calls. I tried adding a Wait of 8 and sending DTMF of 1 and 11 as recommended by a few people on this forum but that didn’t improve the reliability of my system. It picks up every x calls, inconsistently.
Another thread I read earlier this week suggested to get a DID from another provider and forward the Google Voice number to that number. I got a free DID from IPComms and configured the trunk and inbound route. Everything works flawlessly and my IVR picks up every single time, no exception when I call my IPComms DID directly.
I deactivated the forward to Google Talk in my Google account and forwarded my Google Voice number to my IPComms number. I was able to confirm my IPComms number with Google Voice by setting my IPComms incoming route destination to an extension connected to a phone. When setup to ring to that extension it is 100% reliable, every single call to my Google Voice number is connected as soon as I answer the phone and I don’t have to push “1” to accept the call. It connects just like a regular phone, 100% of the time.
Here’s the problem. If I change the destination of the IPComms incoming route to ring an IVR instead of an extension, I can see Asterisk picking up, from the FreePBX System Status page, and I can see in the history of my IPComms that Asterisk really picked up the call and stayed online for 25-30 seconds, but the person calling never gets connected to the IVR and ends up on the Google Voice voicemail.
Just to be clear, here’s a recap:
- Call IPComm DID > Extension = Answer
- Call GV > forward to IPComms DID > Extension = Answer
- Call IPComm DID > IVR = Answer
- Call GV > forward IPComms DID > IVR = GV voicemail
I was actually able to reach my IVR calling the GV number once yesterday and once today, out of about 50 test calls, with the same settings. I just don’t get it.
I’m on Asterisk 1.8.4 with FreePBX 2.9.x, on a Centos 5.5. Call screening is turned OFF in the Google Voice account and Google Voice is setup to only forward to my IPComms number, not to Google Talk.
Has any of you run into something similar or has any suggestions or tricks to try?
I can post config files and logs, if that can help.
Thanks in advance!