OBI 202 with Obiline will not ring or answer incoming PSTN calls
drgeoff:
Quote from: LTN1 on July 07, 2015, 10:34:09 am
Quote from: drgeoff on July 07, 2015, 10:30:08 am
Quote from: JDDD on July 07, 2015, 03:39:35 am
"Phone 1 to default to using 'PTSN line' "
You don't have a PSTN line in a OBI202, if you do not have the usb-extension for PSTN.
Yes he does have a PSTN line. The clue is in the topic title.
Why must you always see the obvious! :D
JDDD doesn't even see that his own sig is out of date. :D
Mouse:
Quote from: drgeoff on July 07, 2015, 10:37:17 am
@mouse
ph and ph1 are synonymous.
I'd guess that you are using a US to UK phone socket adaptor which does not have a ringing capacitor. (Or the adaptor is faulty.)
Oh OK makes sense! How should I identify the correct sort of adapter. I have a lot here - leads and adapters.
I guess I should try the one from the SPA if I can remember but I probably cannot.
gsmlnx:
Look for something like this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/RJ11-telephone-adaptor-ringing-capacitor/dp/B00DK2PG86/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1436299807&sr=1-1&keywords=RJ11+to+BTS+Adapter
Mouse:
Thanks I have one of those.
I fitted it and the locally connected phone started ringing on PH2, then I connected in the DECT extender line to the PH1 socket, and everything local and DECT extender phone stopped ringing (it previously worked with both phones connected - forked from one socket - on the spa).
I then connected the phones each to the other phone socket and got no change. I tried forking to only one PH and got no change.
I wondered if what made the local phone work was disconnecting and reconnecting the PSTN to the line socket. So I tried that, waiting 15 secs before reconnecting, and Bingo, it worked again. Then I tried the same trick with the DECT extender attached as well as the local phone. That worked once (so both phones were ringing at that and then failed again. I then tried connecting and disconnecting with only the DECT extension phone connected and that did not work. Finally I tried using the phone I had been using as the local phone with all its connctors and cables on the and of the DECT extension, connecting and disconnecting the telephone line first, and that did not work.
I also swapped cables and connectors during most of these experiments, so see if any problem there was involved (eg lack of ring capacitor), it seemed not. The problem seemed fairly independent of the connectors used.
During this last experiment I tried to monitor the phone statuses on the OBI and noted that the port used by the DECT extension (now PH1) showed ringing when it was not, then went quickly to on hook even though I had not answered the call, almost as if the Obi had answered it. On a second occasion it did not even show ringing, though the line was (from my completely separate monitor phone plugged into the BT master socket), and the call status showed it as ringing.
I am wondering whether:
a) the OBi202 used with Obiline is seriously unstable, at least with current UK settings
b) the DECT extender is casing instability, which reconnection of the phone line to the line input with only the local phone attached, corrects
I note that from time to time I get a very bad line (very crackly) which is not typical in my location. I also wonder, because the ring back facility sometimes seems to fail, that sometimes the Obi is failing to pass on incoming calls. Though maybe it's operator error! Both these considerations suggest it may be option a) that is true, but I will try just using the local phone to see if that turns out to be stable.
Kind regards
Mouse
Mouse:
OK some progress
First I split the output from the PH1 socket and connected both the DECT extender and the local phone, connecting and disconnecting afterwards - no go. Neither worked.
Then I tried the same config but with the completely separate monitor phone disconnected and both thee local phone and the DECT extender worked.
So I am thinking now that it's the load on the phone line that is bringing maybe some key current or voltage down to a degree that the SPA settings allowed it to tolerate, but the OBi will not. I think the ren load is just 3 (which is OK?) but I will check.
Still need to prove if it is reliable though.
Is there an Obi setting that might help this situation. Have a feeling that the Obi UK config is not complete yet.....
Also got a noisy line once so far with this config.
Kind regards
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