Support for Google Voice Numbers

[skhavari]

Currently texts sent to google voice numbers don't get delivered. Would be great to support those.

[typpo]

Unfortunately Google Voice does not provide a generic email-to-sms gateway, making this impossible in the near term :(

I will keep this open and check periodically though.

[daluu]

Not a solution for this service/API but as mentioned in this thread and elsewhere, if need to send SMS to own GV number, can do it via email forwarding of SMS and SMS yourself to get that initial email and then use that email sender address as recipient to send to yourself going forward.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/voice/mX1oHrgiHJg

[deidyomega]

I know I'm rezing an old post, but... has the situation changed any? I use google fi (phone service) and it doesn't seem to work for me.

Can I assume that google fi has the same problem.

[ntpeters]

Is it possible to achieve this via something like this IFTTT recipe? https://ifttt.com/recipes/2434-mail-to-sms

[daluu]

The IFTTT technique works, unfortunately, not sure whether that would work well in a public service deployment like textbelt.com. That method works easier for self hosting option.

For the IFTTT setup as @ntpeters suggested, you need to map a GMail account as input (emails sent to this account), then it will trigger an SMS to a preset SMS phone number. Unfortunately, that # is not dynamically configurable. It's configured per IFTTT account. An alternate to the first T (this), is the email trigger rather than GMail - sending to an IFTTT email address, with optional preset hashtag. But I don't think there's any other alternative on the 3rd T (that) other than the (preset) SMS number.

So for self use, self host, you can pre-assign to your own GV #. But not gonna work if you want to generally send to any GV #.

[daluu]

True support here would be to pester Google to provide an email-to-SMS gateway for their GV #s, if they ever do support that. Google being API friendly, you'd think they'd offer that, but they don't :(, guess GV not that "important" enough for that, or they can't make $$$ off that well.

[sidpagariya]

Apparently, I used the textbelt.com/text API to send the one sample text to my GV and it seemed to work! But still, it doesn't work on my standalone server! How come that happened?
Thanks!

EDIT: I just tried it again, through a different IP and it worked! @typpo may you know why my GV is working, and why it isn't working on my standalone server?
Thanks!

[daluu]

I believe the public API no longer uses the same underlying mechanism as the standalone server since you have to pay for it (so it works better with more reliability), the standalone server is what was originally the public service as well, and that mechanism I believe never worked for Google Voice.

[typpo]

That's correct - thanks @daluu