wardmundy
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Oh, damn this is fun, and convoluted - yup, I have existing GV number, but I wanted to create a new one, not tied to my mainstream Google Account.
Firstly, hint for young players - GV will Geolocate you, so you need to be working through a US web proxy before the GV Screens will even come up.
Secondly, using existing GV number as the "base number" - nope, it doesn't like that...
Set up a Pinger number (in Alabama), but it seems in order to hook it in, I need either a Jailbroken ANdroid - nope, we are a 100% Apple house, or running Bluestack - all of the documentation talks about bluestack on Windows, but a quick glance says it will run on OSX, so I am off to explore that, so as to tick the box for the GV Account, and then turn on the Simonics GW.
Failing that, set up a Virtualbox VM of windows on my mac, then load blustack, then....
I am reminded of a computer game of the 80's - You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
You don't need a jailbroken/rooted Android phone to use Pinger. You only need that if you want to use Pinger as a SIP device with Asterisk. In your case, you only want a U.S. phone number to use for Google Voice verification. So just use the Pinger client on any smartphone to receive the verification call from Google Voice.