Bridge Incoming POTS to Google Voice
k9bm:
First, the landline cannot be ported. For the 295 million of you served by former Bells, you won't believe this. But numbers owned by the handful of small rural telcos still out there cannot be ported, period. Let's not debate this one, I've tried it.
So, I have the landline forwarded in advanced settings to my cell phone, per drgeoff's instructions, and the call routing works perfectly. It just won't go to voicemail.
If I forward it to the GV number, you're right, it will just go to my voicemail admin as if I was checking voicemail--so that's no good.
So, there is no solution? I should just pitch the Obi110 and the new GV account? The whole reason I bought it was because of the advertised line bridging....
SteveInWA:
Quote from: k9bm on November 14, 2015, 05:49:27 pm
If I forward it to the GV number, you're right, it will just go to my voicemail admin as if I was checking voicemail--so that's no good.
If the forwarding is otherwise working reliably (there is no guarantee that it will do so in your configuration), then you can experiment with this: log into your Google Voice account's Settings page, click the Edit button under your cell phone number, then click the advanced settings link, then set Voicemail access to "no".
k9bm:
Well it was already set to NO for "Direct access to voicemail..." for both lines, the cell phone and the GV phone. Still not working.... ???
SteveInWA:
When Google Voice receives an inbound call, it looks at the caller ID of the calling party. If that caller ID is one of your (up to) six verified forwarding phone numbers on the GV Phones tab, then it will, or won't send the call straight to VM, depending on how you have that Voicemail access setting toggled.
Is the number you happen to be using to make these tests also listed as a GV forwarding phone number? If so, that's the problem. If not, then no, you are not going to get this to work.
Given that you can't port your rural pots line, then your alternatives would be:
Try to get a new phone number for that office from a SIP VoIP carrier, like Callcentric or voip.ms, and just bite the bullet and publicize the new number.Or, get an inbound SIP VoIP number, again from, for example Callcentric (one of their free NY State DIDs will work), and forward that rural POTS number to the DID, and use its voicemail system instead of GV.
k9bm:
I'm making the test calls from a completely unrelated (cell phone) number, so I guess that's that.
Unfortunately I'm not at liberty to change the landline, it's for a Masonic Lodge that has had the same number for 100 years or so and more important is listed in the local telephone directory. VOIP numbers don't get published, at least not in a rural telco's directory.
Honestly I'm just pay $1/mo. to use the telco's call forwarding, except that all my lines and cell phones are outside the local dialing area (all of 2 prefixes!), so we would have to set up a long distance carrier and pay charges every time a call came in and got forwarded. THAT was the rationale for this (failed) experiment.
If only I could send incoming calls directly GV voicemail. Or find an answering machine that would email me a notification....
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