On Mon, 4 May 2020 19:37:10 -0700 wes <[email protected]> dijo: >On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 2:39 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> >wrote: >> If the Google Voice account sends the text messages to my Android >> phone they will not be viewable. What I need is for Google Voice to >> display text messages on my computer, i.e., in Chrome or Firefox. As >> far as I can tell that is not an option.
>I use Google Voice. One of the things I like about it is its >redundancy. I can get text messages via at least 4 interfaces >simultaneously. The downside is that I have more items to mark "read" >but for me, that is well worth the benefit of making it very difficult >to get locked out of my ability to receive messages. In my line of >work I need to be Highly Available(tm) and this goes a long way >towards helping with that. > >Google Voice offers a smartphone app that is unrelated to the Messages >(or similar) app that usually handles text messages going to the phone >by default. This is not mandatory. However, it will insist that you >provide a number to a real phone, so be prepared for that. It will >forward phone calls to the Google Voice number over to the real phone >number. > >I get GV text messages in the app, over email, in a Chrome browser >extension, and in a web interface found at voice.google.com. Your >physical phone does not have to be involved. Many thanks. I may have problems installing the app because my phone had too many pieces of Google deleted and now I am locked out of the app store. But this sounds like a solution. I will get to work on this tomorrow. :) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
