On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 8:21 PM John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 May 2020 19:37:10 -0700 > wes <p...@the-wes.com> dijo: > > >On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 2:39 PM John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> > >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. :) > You may be able to get away with setting it up without ever installing the app at all. Just pull up voice.google.com and follow the prompts. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
