On Apr 8, 2013 9:07 PM, "Michael Hampicke" <gentoo-u...@hadt.biz> wrote: > > Am 08.04.2013 17:20, schrieb Michael Mol: > > So, I'm trying to verify whether or not Pidgin can talk to Google Voice > > on my laptop. When searching around for instructions, I get the > > impression that this is supposed to "just work", and I don't see much in > > the way of people actually having difficulty with it. > > > > In my case, if someone calls me, my gmail tab rings at me, my phone > > rings at me, but Pidgin doesn't so much as twitch. > > > > Has anyone else had this working on Gentoo? > > > > Here's what I'm working with: > > > > net-im/pidgin-2.10.7-r1 was built with the following: > > USE="dbus doc gnutls gstreamer gtk (multilib) ncurses networkmanager nls > > python spell tk xscreensaver zeroconf (-aqua) -debug -eds -gadu > > -groupwise -idn -meanwhile -perl -prediction -sasl -silc -tcl -zephyr" > > ABI_X86="64" > > > > I never got this to work either. I tried google-voice-calling ( :-) ) > myself from my android phone to pidgin on the work station and got > nothing. Also I cannot make outgoing calls from pidgin to my android phone. >
Same here. It seems Google Talk uses some different protocol unlike pidgin which uses jingle. Pidgin to pidgin calling works.
