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General Support => On-Topic: Obihai and OBi Products => Topic started by: QBZappy on January 22, 2011, 11:12:13 AM

Title: Good review of the Obi with the new Google Voice firmware
Post by: QBZappy on January 22, 2011, 11:12:13 AM
Have a look here. This review & how-to will help avoid many unnecessary support calls.

http://michigantelephone.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/review-of-the-obihai-obi110-voip-device-part-1-use-your-phone-with-google-voice-for-free-incoming-and-outgoing-calls/
Title: Re: Good review of the Obi with the new Google Voice firmware
Post by: MichiganTelephone on January 25, 2011, 01:08:00 AM
Thanks for the link.  There's also a part 2 now:

http://michigantelephone.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/review-of-the-obihai-obi110-voip-device-part-2-the-obitalk-portal-documentation-and-using-the-device-as-an-fxo-port-with-asterisk/
Title: Re: Good review of the Obi with the new Google Voice firmware
Post by: jblah on January 29, 2011, 06:31:40 PM
thanks for the links. this is specifically why i bought the obi..i'll have to give it a try once my obi gets here on the 1st! no more phone bills!
Title: Re: Good review of the Obi with the new Google Voice firmware
Post by: MichiganTelephone on January 30, 2011, 11:33:30 AM
Here's links to my entire series thus far:

Review of the Obihai OBi110 VoIP device, Part 1: Use your phone with Google Voice for free incoming and outgoing calls (http://michigantelephone.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/review-of-the-obihai-obi110-voip-device-part-1-use-your-phone-with-google-voice-for-free-incoming-and-outgoing-calls/)

Review of the Obihai OBi110 VoIP device, Part 2: The OBiTALK portal, documentation, and using the device as an FXO port with Asterisk (http://michigantelephone.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/review-of-the-obihai-obi110-voip-device-part-2-the-obitalk-portal-documentation-and-using-the-device-as-an-fxo-port-with-asterisk/)

Review of the Obihai OBi110 VoIP device, Part 3: 911 on the cheap? (http://michigantelephone.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/review-of-the-obihai-obi110-voip-device-part-3-911-on-the-cheap/)

Review of the Obihai OBi110 VoIP device, Part 4: How to use the OBi110 as an FXO port with Asterisk and FreePBX (http://michigantelephone.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/review-of-the-obihai-obi110-voip-device-part-4-how-to-use-the-obi110-as-an-fxo-port-with-asterisk-and-freepbx/)

First look at the Obihai OBi100 VoIP device: Like the OBi110, but smaller and less expensive, and without the Line port (http://michigantelephone.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/first-look-at-the-obihai-obi100-voip-device-like-the-obi110-but-smaller-and-less-expensive-and-without-the-line-port/)

How to use the Obihai OBi100 or OBi110 VoIP device as a gateway between Asterisk/FreePBX and Google Voice and/or the OBiTALK network (http://michigantelephone.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/how-to-use-the-obihai-obi100-or-obi110-voip-device-as-a-gateway-between-asteriskfreepbx-and-google-voice-andor-the-obitalk-network/)

How to use the Obihai OBi100 or OBi110 VoIP device as a gateway between Asterisk/FreePBX and Google Voice and/or the OBiTALK network — Part 2: Using the Phone port as an Asterisk extension (http://michigantelephone.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/how-to-use-the-obihai-obi100-or-obi110-voip-device-as-a-gateway-between-asteriskfreepbx-and-google-voice-andor-the-obitalk-network-%e2%80%94-part-2-using-the-phone-port-as-an-asterisk-extension/)

I still feel like I've only scratched the surface here - I think that with a little thought and effort you could do a lot of creative things with these units, given that you can route calls from one service to any other service (or even do "hairpin turns" on the same service - see the comments section under Part 4).  The more people that get their hands on these units, the more I think we will see them put to clever and creative uses.
Title: Re: Good review of the Obi with the new Google Voice firmware
Post by: Syam on February 03, 2011, 12:57:34 PM
Just checking to see if anybody tried OBI110 with Vonage using its call transfer feature to make parallel calls without holding the Vonage line.