When did Hangouts start doing SMS on desktop?

[EvilMonkey]

My SMS and MMS messages just started showing up today on my desktop (and I can send SMS from it).Is that recent? I don't usually use it on the desktop just because it would never sync up SMS, but it just showed up today. Maybe it's been doing it awhile and I just never got the popup before....or I didn't notice.

 

[hallux]

What carrier are you with? I thought this was only possible with Fi or if you were using a Google Voice number for texting.

I have Fi, I can send/receive texts and phone calls using Hangouts on my computer, tablet and phone, or pretty much any other device I have logged in to my Google account.

 

[EvilMonkey]

That might be it. I switched to Fi in February. Maybe just now noticing it....Weird how it wasn't popping up in the corner until today though.