OBi2162 - Importing contacts using BT

[itscurt]

My phone (Samsung Galaxy S10) has successfully paired with the handset for calls and contacts.

However, accessing the phone's contact's context menu (more > Import) to import, I get the error modal: "Importing Contacts: Contact Access Denied"

I toggle the contact BT access on my phone but continue to get this error. Is this due to my contact list being too big? How else can I import my contacts to the device without rekeying my entire address book?


Side question: Any easy enough way to trigger a call on the phone from a web browser, or an extension to modify the callto links to call my obihai + destination?

[SteveInWA]

There is no method to import contacts via BT.  The only method is to a) use Google Contacts, and b) upload the contacts to the phone from the OBiTALK portal.  Click on your 2162 to open its basic configuration page.  Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and click the import button.

In order to initiate a call from the Google Voice website on your browser (https://voice.google.com/u/0/calls), first go to the settings page and toggle on (green), "Always use my phone to place calls".  A pre-requisite to do this with an OBi-attached phone is to get an inbound VoIP phone number from, for example, Callcentric, provision it on a SPx on your OBiTALK device, and add it as a forwarding phone number for your Google Voice number.

[drgeoff]

I can't speak for the 2000 series phones nor do I claim that it currently works for the 1000 series but clearly it was intended to when the User Guide for the latter was written.  Page 54 of https://www.obitalk.com/info/documents/admin_guide/OBi1000-IP-Phones-User-Guide.pdf contains

"Contacts can also be copied via Bluetooth from the mobile phone to the OBi."

[SteveInWA]

I can't speak for the 2000 series phones nor do I claim that it currently works for the 1000 series but clearly it was intended to when the User Guide for the latter was written.  Page 54 of https://www.obitalk.com/info/documents/admin_guide/OBi1000-IP-Phones-User-Guide.pdf contains

"Contacts can also be copied via Bluetooth from the mobile phone to the OBi."

It doesn't work on my 2182s.  Perhaps it might work for somebody, with a different BT-enabled connection to their phone, but not mine.

[itscurt]

There is no method to import contacts via BT.  The only method is to a) use Google Contacts, and b) upload the contacts to the phone from the OBiTALK portal.  Click on your 2162 to open its basic configuration page.  Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and click the import button.

In order to initiate a call from the Google Voice website on your browser (https://voice.google.com/u/0/calls), first go to the settings page and toggle on (green), "Always use my phone to place calls".  A pre-requisite to do this with an OBi-attached phone is to get an inbound VoIP phone number from, for example, Callcentric, provision it on a SPx on your OBiTALK device, and add it as a forwarding phone number for your Google Voice number.

Thanks! Imported Google contacts successfully, kind of lame that it doesn't support +1 prefix on numbers though.

As for the GVoice setting to always place outgoing calls on phone, I don't seem to have that feature visible https://i.imgur.com/958Xq4X.png


JK didn't see this part:

A pre-requisite to do this with an OBi-attached phone is to get an inbound VoIP phone number from, for example, Callcentric, provision it on a SPx on your OBiTALK device, and add it as a forwarding phone number for your Google Voice number.

Is there a free alternative? Or is this basically call forwarding to my phone? In this case could I fwd it to one of two GVoice numbers instead of callcentric in a sense there'd be a dedicated number? JK they're both managed by Google

[SteveInWA]

There is no method to import contacts via BT.  The only method is to a) use Google Contacts, and b) upload the contacts to the phone from the OBiTALK portal.  Click on your 2162 to open its basic configuration page.  Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and click the import button.

In order to initiate a call from the Google Voice website on your browser (https://voice.google.com/u/0/calls), first go to the settings page and toggle on (green), "Always use my phone to place calls".  A pre-requisite to do this with an OBi-attached phone is to get an inbound VoIP phone number from, for example, Callcentric, provision it on a SPx on your OBiTALK device, and add it as a forwarding phone number for your Google Voice number.

Thanks! Imported Google contacts successfully, kind of lame that it doesn't support +1 prefix on numbers though.

As for the GVoice setting to always place outgoing calls on phone, I don't seem to have that feature visible https://i.imgur.com/958Xq4X.png


JK didn't see this part:

A pre-requisite to do this with an OBi-attached phone is to get an inbound VoIP phone number from, for example, Callcentric, provision it on a SPx on your OBiTALK device, and add it as a forwarding phone number for your Google Voice number.

Is there a free alternative? Or is this basically call forwarding to my phone? In this case could I fwd it to one of two GVoice numbers instead of callcentric in a sense there'd be a dedicated number? JK they're both managed by Google

I'm not sure I can decipher your post, with the use of "JK", but I think you meant that you figured out why you didn't see the setting to always use a linked phone number to place calls -- you don't HAVE a linked phone number.

A Callcentric NY State phone number is only $1 per month for inbound calls, and their outbound rates are cheap.

No, you can't forward one Google Voice number to another one.