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General Support => Feature Requests => Topic started by: RobFeldy on December 23, 2011, 07:17:04 AM

Title: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: RobFeldy on December 23, 2011, 07:17:04 AM
Problem:
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Because Google voice does not pass the "Peer Name" to the OBI110 (cost).

Feature Request:
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Can you please add an ability to upload/enter Caller ID info in to the device to Override what Google Voice "Peer Name" is sending (that is null) .  

Uploading would be Nice

Mom At Work,5551231234
Joe,5551231234
....

A local file something like a host file on a PC.  Overrides the DNS name lookup.   This option would be nice for everyone as being able to put in "Mom at Work" or "Dad at Home" when it shows up would be nice vs "JOHN SMITH"

(While it would be nice to pull from external source I would be very happy just to upload a file (export/import)  )

Thanks

(If you like this feature too reply with "Yes Please" ) 

Robert
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: Hortoristic on December 24, 2011, 10:42:56 AM
YES PLEASE
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: Everton on December 27, 2011, 07:56:35 AM
The OBiON network is hosted "in the cloud", could each user upload their contact list from Google Voice and the CNAM be pulled from this list, instead of a host PC?  What about pulling the info from the populated 99-speed dial list available from OBiTALK?


Quote from: RobFeldy on December 23, 2011, 07:17:04 AM
Problem:
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Because Google voice does not pass the "Peer Name" to the OBI110 (cost).

Feature Request:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Can you please add an ability to upload/enter Caller ID info in to the device to Override what Google Voice "Peer Name" is sending (that is null) .  

Uploading would be Nice

Mom At Work,5551231234
Joe,5551231234
....

A local file something like a host file on a PC.  Overrides the DNS name lookup.   This option would be nice for everyone as being able to put in "Mom at Work" or "Dad at Home" when it shows up would be nice vs "JOHN SMITH"

(While it would be nice to pull from external source I would be very happy just to upload a file (export/import)  )

Thanks

(If you like this feature too reply with "Yes Please" ) 

Robert
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: sic0048 on January 31, 2012, 12:41:53 PM
Yes please.
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: jilebi on February 07, 2012, 09:40:25 PM
Would love to have this feature!!! Really needed for Wife Approval Factor (WAF) for acceptance of this solution, especially with phones nowadays having Talking Called ID which voice synthesizes and reads out the caller id name!!
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: RevKev on February 08, 2012, 05:37:13 PM
I'll vote this up.

I think speed dials (and adding name in the obi device) would be great as a first source and my OBiTalk account (vcard upload or sync with contacts?) as a secondary source. Of course that assumes (a) the device has storage for all names/numbers and (b) OBiTalk can provision storage space for each account. An increase in the number of speed dials would be a plus.

Additionally, it would be nice if on any incoming call via any source, if the caller name is missing or in a list of known ambiguous values, that the name be looked up locally (i.e. "wireless caller", "unknown", "private", etc.).
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: MichiganTelephone on February 19, 2012, 10:21:21 AM
This would be highly appreciated.  I'd also suggest having the ability to enter a number lookup URL that could make a http request to a local or remote server, using a substitution variable, for example:

http://192.168.0.100/lookup?%number%

This would go to a server on a machine on the local network that would look up the number.  Of course, you might be able to use certain other publicly-available sources.  ;)
Title: Caller id number AND name - please! using an external caller name server ...
Post by: BobTeatow on February 20, 2012, 08:25:37 AM
I "second the motion" - Caller Name PLEASE!

The idea of offloading to another server, reachable by Tcp/ip hostname or even just IP address, is great.
Could be over http or some other (semi) standard protocol.
That would allow us (or third parties) to hook into any services and/or databases we like.

A refinement would be to ring immediately, and in parallel commence the caller name request.
If the OBI gets a name response before the phone goes off-hook, re-do the ring sequence with the caller's number and name. 

Another refinement would be to keep a cache of caller-number/caller-name in the OBI.
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: dahosepipe on February 20, 2012, 12:38:10 PM
yes PLEASE!   This would be wonderful to have.  Even nicer if it could integrate with my GV contacts, but I'm happy to upload or configure manually.
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: thighdude on February 21, 2012, 05:47:32 AM
I agree with the posts above and would love to see a feature where external web CNAM databases / services could be queried so that caller ID name can be populated in cases where the provider (e.g. Google Voice) only provides caller ID number.
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: QBZappy on February 21, 2012, 08:35:47 AM
Have a look here http://riotouslabs.com/Products/GrowlerID . OBi forum member Brian Hasden has been working on a very interesting project which addresses cnam lookup using an OBi. One feature is especially interesting. I believe that it also pops up google contact names as the caller ID name if it is already populated in the Google contact list.

History of Changes:
0.5 - 2011-12-12 - Added page in configuration wizard for configuring an Obihai device
0.4 - 2011-11-29 - Added support for Facebook photo lookup of incoming caller
0.3 - 2011-11-07 - Added support for FreeCNAM contact lookup     <-------- Notable feature
0.2 - 2011-10-29 - First stable release to include baseline functionality
0.1 - 2011-09-30 - Initial Release

I believe that Brian initially developed this app for personal use. It is not clear what his intentions are. At the moment it seems to be freeware. Brian has mentioned to me some ideas about the features he is planning to incorporate into the app. This is one 3rd party app worth keeping an eye on. It can be used to provide network caller ID as it works with Growl, a notification system for Mac, windows, (Mumbles for linux, google it)

Current version: GrowlerID 0.5 . The expiration date of the app has been pushed out to April 1, 2012. (web site incorrectly states Feb 1, 2012). Give it a try.
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: bhasden on February 21, 2012, 12:01:59 PM
QBZappy, thanks for the plug. The program did indeed start as a personal project. I've been working to make GrowlerID more user friendly, and as a result, have had to slow down the release cycle a bit in order to work on larger features.

RiotousLabs is a microISV (basically meaning it's just me for now), so some features are taking a bit longer than I'd like. I am currently testing OBi auto-discovery (allowing for usage of OBi devices with a dynamic IP), general UI improvements, along with a couple of features that are still in early alpha. If anyone is interested in testing or has any questions, feel free to PM me or contact me through the RiotousLabs website.
Title: GrowlerID
Post by: BobTeatow on February 21, 2012, 01:23:17 PM
How does GrowlerID "spy" on my OBI device(s) and/or incoming calls?

(I haven't tried to reverse engineer it.)  One way would be to "promiscuously" read all traffic on the LAN, looking for packets going to the OBI ...  Hmmm...

A much smarter way would be fork every call to a hacked soft-Sipphone and have that sipphone do the CID/name lookup....  For example I have my OBI configured to fork most calls to extension 103 of my VOIP.ms account, which is handled by a SIPURA and a phone in my spare room.... 
Hmmm... I could also fork calls to the hacked-soft Sipphone...
Title: Re: GrowlerID
Post by: bhasden on February 21, 2012, 01:28:57 PM
Quote from: BobTeatow on February 21, 2012, 01:23:17 PM
How does GrowlerID "spy" on my OBI device(s) and/or incoming calls?

(I haven't tried to reverse engineer it.)  One way would be to "promiscuously" read all traffic on the LAN, looking for packets going to the OBI ...  Hmmm...

A much smarter way would be fork every call to a hacked soft-Sipphone and have that sipphone do the CID/name lookup....  For example I have my OBI configured to fork most calls to extension 103 of my VOIP.ms account, which is handled by a SIPURA and a phone in my spare room.... 
Hmmm... I could also fork calls to the hacked-soft Sipphone...

It's really simple actually. It just polls the status page on the device every couple of seconds to see if there is an incoming call. That portion of code was derived from the work of MichiganTelephone (michigantelephone.WordPress.com). It's a very low tech approach but it has been working well for me at home for the past 4 or 5 months.
Title: GrowlerID
Post by: BobTeatow on February 21, 2012, 02:05:40 PM
Oh!  Well that's better than watching every packet... But it's still polling, which means a lot of wasted cycles, and a worst case delay that is 1/polling_rate.  You're welcome to implement my suggestion, which is much more efficient, responsive and selective!

Linphone is an open source SIP Phone, there are probably others.

If you look into the OBI configuration doc, you will see how to fork calls to any sip provider - which could be one that runs on your own LAN.  Can't be too hard to hack something together.

However, this still doesn't get us the caller name on my telephone set - which is where I want it.  (Unless I only use an Android phone on which I also run something like GrowlID?)   And without the OBI knowing what is going on we don't quite get there...  Of course I could have OBI NOT ring my phone, but pass the call to my own server and then have that server pass the call back to the OBI... but then I may as well toss the OBI!  We really want the function integrated into the OBI.

Title: Re: GrowlerID
Post by: bhasden on February 22, 2012, 09:23:21 AM
Quote from: BobTeatow on February 21, 2012, 02:05:40 PM
Oh!  Well that's better than watching every packet... But it's still polling, which means a lot of wasted cycles, and a worst case delay that is 1/polling_rate.  You're welcome to implement my suggestion, which is much more efficient, responsive and selective!

Linphone is an open source SIP Phone, there are probably others.

If you look into the OBI configuration doc, you will see how to fork calls to any sip provider - which could be one that runs on your own LAN.  Can't be too hard to hack something together.

However, this still doesn't get us the caller name on my telephone set - which is where I want it.  (Unless I only use an Android phone on which I also run something like GrowlID?)   And without the OBI knowing what is going on we don't quite get there...  Of course I could have OBI NOT ring my phone, but pass the call to my own server and then have that server pass the call back to the OBI... but then I may as well toss the OBI!  We really want the function integrated into the OBI.

Agreed that the polling is less than ideal, but right now I have it configured at home to poll once every 5 seconds and it works well. At that rate, checking the OBi device 12 times a minute seems to be worth the tradeoff for simplicity.

It would be great if the OBi device had some sort of API where you could subscribe to be notified of incoming calls and the make modifications to the caller id information during that or some other event.

When I started the GrowlerID project, I was looking at a couple of different ways to accomplish the goal of notifying me of who was calling. One of the approaches I looked at was a device that would be put inline between the OBi and the phone. The device would decode the caller id information when an incoming call was detected and then run code to look up the caller and write out the appropriate caller id information to the line when it was retrieved. While that would be a fantastically interesting and fun project, unfortunately the electronics part is a bit out of my league. I prefer to be as productive as I can be with my limited free time and designing circuits would not allow me to work at maximum efficiency. If someone here has some electronics experience I would be more than happy to work with them on getting such a device working, but I can't be the lead for such a project. The initial research I did on the topic led me to a few project that were built on the Arduino platform that were able to decode the incoming caller id. From there, you'd need to write code to negate the original incoming caller id signal so that the original caller id information is not displayed on the phone. Then, you'd have to look up the caller information and then write the new information out to the line.

A simple diagram of the physical setup:


                              [ethernet jack]
                                    |
                                    |
[OBi phone jack]----------[caller id lookup device]----------[phone]

Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: QBZappy on February 22, 2012, 03:46:30 PM
Brian,

If you go that route, the info contained here might be interesting. Technical aspects of CID formatting.
http://www.talkingcallerid.com/ModemDriver.htm

Wouldn't a voice modem do the trick?
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: bhasden on February 24, 2012, 11:00:53 AM
Quote from: QBZappy on February 22, 2012, 03:46:30 PM
Brian,

If you go that route, the info contained here might be interesting. Technical aspects of CID formatting.
http://www.talkingcallerid.com/ModemDriver.htm

Wouldn't a voice modem do the trick?

I don't believe a voice modem would work because it would have no way to ring the connected OBi device. If I'm understanding what you're suggesting (I initially thought the same thing), you mean to say that the OBi would connect up to the voice modem which would then connect up to the phone. In that scenario, you have no way to ring the phone.

I actually asked this question to the smart folks over on StackOverflow (limited it's scope to stuff they'd be familiar with). Feel free to check out the answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7988592/make-phone-connected-to-modem-ring
Title: Re: GrowlerID
Post by: w84no1 on February 24, 2012, 06:53:28 PM
Quote from: bhasden on February 21, 2012, 01:28:57 PM
Quote from: BobTeatow on February 21, 2012, 01:23:17 PM
How does GrowlerID "spy" on my OBI device(s) and/or incoming calls?

(I haven't tried to reverse engineer it.)  One way would be to "promiscuously" read all traffic on the LAN, looking for packets going to the OBI ...  Hmmm...

A much smarter way would be fork every call to a hacked soft-Sipphone and have that sipphone do the CID/name lookup....  For example I have my OBI configured to fork most calls to extension 103 of my VOIP.ms account, which is handled by a SIPURA and a phone in my spare room.... 
Hmmm... I could also fork calls to the hacked-soft Sipphone...

It's really simple actually. It just polls the status page on the device every couple of seconds to see if there is an incoming call. That portion of code was derived from the work of MichiganTelephone (michigantelephone.WordPress.com). It's a very low tech approach but it has been working well for me at home for the past 4 or 5 months.

I use a perl script to monitior the syslog for incoming calls and it works pretty well.  http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=1723.msg17103#msg17103
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: dcampbe1 on February 25, 2012, 06:17:54 AM
Count my vote too please.  CallerID is so inherently necessary in managing phone traffic AND history.  Incorporating it in any format would be wonderful.  Having a local speed dial directory without it seem a bit moot otherwise.

Thanks for even considering the idea!
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: erkme73 on February 25, 2012, 06:51:24 AM
Me too!  How about having the OBi portal somehow interface with your google voice contacts, and either maintain a cached copy, or query the actual google data base with each incoming ring?   That would have to be server-side , but imagine the marketing aspect of OBi being the first out the gate to offer Google contact synced caller ID info...
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: QBZappy on February 25, 2012, 09:14:06 AM
Brian,

Note that the OBi provides the power to ring 5 phones. When a call comes over the POTS line I think a voice modem connected to the CO in parallel with OBi would accomplish what you want to do. This would work for the OBi110 in this use case. CID data could easily be retrieved from the data stream.

Sip calls might work with an inexpensive line splitter on the OBi device connect to a phone, and a modem. The OBi provides ample power for this. The OBi acts as the CO for the modem providing the CID information.

All this would imply that your current working solution of scraping the web page to one of using the CID from the modem. Is there anything to gain from this? I think it will reduce polling cycles since the OBi could notify your app when a call comes in. Instead of actively polling, it could be just be listening. It would be more efficient this way. What do you think?

Something like this cheap fax/voice modem might be interesting: (Currently sold out)
http://www.buyincoins.com/details/56k-usb-external-fax-modem-dial-up-pci-voice-v-92-v-90-01-product-606.html
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: bhasden on February 28, 2012, 11:44:13 AM
Quote from: QBZappy on February 25, 2012, 09:14:06 AM
Brian,

Note that the OBi provides the power to ring 5 phones. When a call comes over the POTS line I think a voice modem connected to the CO in parallel with OBi would accomplish what you want to do. This would work for the OBi110 in this use case. CID data could easily be retrieved from the data stream.

Sip calls might work with an inexpensive line splitter on the OBi device connect to a phone, and a modem. The OBi provides ample power for this. The OBi acts as the CO for the modem providing the CID information.

All this would imply that your current working solution of scraping the web page to one of using the CID from the modem. Is there anything to gain from this? I think it will reduce polling cycles since the OBi could notify your app when a call comes in. Instead of actively polling, it could be just be listening. It would be more efficient this way. What do you think?

Something like this cheap fax/voice modem might be interesting: (Currently sold out)
http://www.buyincoins.com/details/56k-usb-external-fax-modem-dial-up-pci-voice-v-92-v-90-01-product-606.html

Ah, I see what you're getting at now. I thought you were saying to use the computer inline between the OBi and the phone to intrepret and then rebroadcast the CID information back over the phone line so it would show properly on the line. I have been working on modem support, which is another one of those larger features that is holding up the next GrowlerID release. It wouldn't fix the problem the OP is having where he wants the CID information on his the phone connected to the OBi, but it would allow someone using GrowlerID to not have to poll the OBi device for incoming calls. I'll shoot you a PM when I finally get the next version released with modem support.
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: MacOverAll on March 02, 2012, 05:46:33 AM
+1 to the obi using speed dial, google contacts or a configurable CNAM provider.
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: RobFeldy on May 13, 2012, 04:50:37 PM
Honestly This should be an easy patch.  Take away 50 of the 99 Speed dials, replace it with 50 custom caller id spots ..  I and I would be ecstatic.    ;D   I think I have 20 Speed dials.  99 seems a bit extreme..  Even with my 20 I have a little cheat cheat to see what is what.. 

Thanks all for the +1's  I would really like to see something custom at the minimum.  If we can resource GV, or some other that would be even better. 

Thanks

Robert 
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: mongolianmiller on August 14, 2012, 01:12:27 PM
YES PLEASE
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: StanSimmons on August 22, 2012, 09:36:13 AM
Since the numbers in the speed dial list will generally be the same numbers that call in regularly, and the speed dial is already on the OBi, using that list as a lookup table would be an obvious starting point... and would likely be all that is needed for most home users.
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: GregoryZ on August 24, 2012, 10:33:25 PM
Here is an option for all of you.

If you have a sip provider.  Use the PhonerLite Softphone.
http://www.phonerlite.de/index_en.htm (http://www.phonerlite.de/index_en.htm)
PhonerLite has Goolge Contact intergration.

My idea is that you can have your GV number ring your Sip provider as well as your OBi.

Register PhonerLite with the Sip provider, and Wa-LA!!

If the OBiAPP worked like it should then that would eleminate the need for a Sip provider. 

-G
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: kelemvor on December 01, 2012, 01:26:10 PM
So I was about to change to GV with an Obi110.  Does this feature exist yet?  My current VoIP provider lets me setup custom caller ID and I'd really miss that feature.

Does caller ID work at all for general names and numbers or does it only show the number for everyone?
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: cayossarian on December 11, 2012, 06:35:45 PM
YES Please
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: Rick on December 12, 2012, 05:39:27 AM
Quote from: kelemvor on December 01, 2012, 01:26:10 PM
So I was about to change to GV with an Obi110.  Does this feature exist yet?  My current VoIP provider lets me setup custom caller ID and I'd really miss that feature.

Does caller ID work at all for general names and numbers or does it only show the number for everyone?

Only shows the number, unless you program the person into your PHONE'S DIRECTORY in which case you'll see that info.
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: giqcass on December 17, 2012, 07:36:22 PM
I'm on board with this.  I imagine it either downloading a cached copy of my contact list directly to my Obi from Google Voice or allow me to set it manually in the interface.  Using the speed dial would work fine for me. 
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: Smee on March 23, 2013, 04:08:35 PM
I would also love to be able to use the Speed Dial to show CNAM on the phone.  The Obi already seems to be able to do that when you use your Obi **9 speed dial Number.  Why not with regular numbers....

Smee
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: MickW on March 25, 2013, 06:10:55 AM
Here is your wish louisvillemetropc.com/wp/?p=444 (http://louisvillemetropc.com/wp/?p=444)
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: Smee on March 25, 2013, 06:47:43 PM
Quote from: MickW on March 25, 2013, 06:10:55 AM
Here is your wish louisvillemetropc.com/wp/?p=444 (http://louisvillemetropc.com/wp/?p=444)

Not quite.  I am more interested in the CNAM display on the phone.  I already do what the script above does and then some. i.e, My script, using Kiwi Syslog, will lookup numbers from the following places:

a) Local Cache (Will do Name substitution)
b) If number is not found in Cache, it looks up in opencnam.com
c) If number is not found there and you have a WhitePages.com DEV id, it will also check here.
d) Otherwise it will display unknown

It will then broadcast to all my PCs and Tivo's in my home that use YAC.  If GROWL is enabled, it will also broadcast to my Tablets & Android phones if subscribed to the growl.  Never got around to NCID though since I don't use that.

It isn't terribly sophisticated and wrote it on a weekend while bored using Autoit with an MS Access database.  I have been using it for a while now, but what I really want is for CNAM to be displayed on the phone using the Speed Dial information.

Having CNAM on the handset will prevent me from being glued to the TV, Tablet or PC just to see who's calling.   ;D

Take care...

Smee
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: QBZappy on March 25, 2013, 07:40:58 PM
Quote from: Smee on March 25, 2013, 06:47:43 PM
I already do what the script above does and then some.

Cool. Would you like to share?  :) No, seriously, I'd be interested.
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: Smee on March 25, 2013, 08:51:38 PM
Quote from: QBZappy on March 25, 2013, 07:40:58 PM
Quote from: Smee on March 25, 2013, 06:47:43 PM
I already do what the script above does and then some.

Cool. Would you like to share?  :) No, seriously, I'd be interested.

Sure.  Like I said, nothing sophisticated, but gets the job done for me.  You will need a Syslogger, like Kiwi, that can launch an executable based on a trigger.  I am looking for:

[SLIC] CID to deliver:

to trigger the executable.  You will need to point your Obi to send Syslog data to whatever PC you installed your syslog server on.  If you intend to use Growl as well, you will need to enable in the INI file and Growl will need to be on the same PC as your syslog server.  The Autoit will self register with Growl on first use. Look in the AU3 source file for more info.  

Update: No longer need Syslog server.  Binrary updated.  See this post: http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=5730.0 (http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=5730.0)

Have fun...

Smee
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: QBZappy on March 25, 2013, 09:09:04 PM
Smee,

I'm putting you on my Christmas card list. Thanks.
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: QBZappy on March 25, 2013, 09:35:22 PM
Quote from: Smee on March 25, 2013, 06:47:43 PM

Having CNAM on the handset will prevent me from being glued to the TV, Tablet or PC just to see who's calling.   ;D

Quote from: Smee on March 23, 2013, 04:08:35 PM
I would also love to be able to use the Speed Dial to show CNAM on the phone.  The Obi already seems to be able to do that when you use your Obi **9 speed dial Number.  Why not

If you want to limit yourself to a relatively small list of names, as implied by your reference to the speed dial, a workaround which works for me is to memorize the name when there is an incoming call, or manually input the name in handset Phonebook. I think most cordless phones have that ability. The result is any incoming call that is in the Phonebook will show a Name which is similar to populating a speed dial slot in the OBi. This requires a little be of extra effort. At least you won't strain your eyes on the HD 52 in TV when the CID come in.  :D
Title: Re: Google Voice (GV) and Caller ID Name Display - Custom Caller ID
Post by: Smee on March 26, 2013, 06:36:08 PM
Quote from: QBZappy on March 25, 2013, 09:35:22 PM
If you want to limit yourself to a relatively small list of names, as implied by your reference to the speed dial, a workaround which works for me is to memorize the name when there is an incoming call, or manually input the name in handset Phonebook. I think most cordless phones have that ability. The result is any incoming call that is in the Phonebook will show a Name which is similar to populating a speed dial slot in the OBi. This requires a little be of extra effort. At least you won't strain your eyes on the HD 52 in TV when the CID come in.  :D

Memorizing is way to much trouble for me. :-)  Would rather the Obi do the hard work for me.  It would save me from having to get new cordless phones.  My Uniden phones don't seem to like the leading 1 added to the CID and so trying to add the name/number to it's directories doesn't work.  Hopefully the Obi gods hear us.  ;D

Smee