Persistent Telemarketers...
Lavarock7:
In the olden days (before voip) I used to transfer calls to the bus station in neighboring DC. They NEVER answered the phone. The local rock radio station had a request line that was always busy.
Now I use recordings and Lenny.
Based upon caller-ID I now can tailor certain calls with Voip.Ms. When Sirius (the dog of a satellite music company) had my number listed for a deadbeat customer, I finally recorded a long message about how I wasn't a customer and was reporting this call each time. The calls stopped.
Although I have GV numbers, my main numbers are with a teal Voip company. Then U can use NOMOROBO, keep my own black and white lists, manage calls based upon partial phone numbers with wildcards, just as you are trying to do.
GoogleVoice is great as a free service, but for a few dollars a month, life becomes easier elsewhere.
azrobert:
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Why does my attempt to route the call to the unused line port not work? Is it possible to route to the line port in such a manner as to deliberately cause a call failure and have the OBi110 generate a SIT tone?
It's basically the same scenario as routing the call to nowhere. GV is forwarding the call to your OBi110. If the forward fails or not answered, it will be sent to VM. A forked call will continue to ring your cell if the other leg fails.
Auto Attendant Setup:
Voice Services -> Auto Attendant
Under Auto Attendant Prompts set the following.
Menu: %User1%
%User1% will point to custom prompt#1.
All Other Prompts set to: &pause()
&pause() is the equivalent of deleting the prompt.
OutboundCallRoute: {}
AnswerDelay: 0
Voice Services -> SP1 Service -> X_InboundCallRoute:
{(MTelemarketers)|?:aa},{ph}
Record a custom prompt:
Dial the following:
***0
1001# This will save the recording to %User1%.
1002# will save to %User2%
1 This is for a new value for the recording
1 Any digit will start the recording
Say your custom message
# Will end the recording. Leave a couple of seconds
of silence at beginning and end.
1 Confirm the recording and save
Instead of saying the custom message, hold the phone next to the computer speaker and play Toaman's suggestion from Wikipedia.
gary-gary:
Quote from: Lavarock7 on April 19, 2017, 08:31:55 am
Although I have GV numbers, my main numbers are with a teal Voip company. Then U can use NOMOROBO, keep my own black and white lists, manage calls based upon partial phone numbers with wildcards, just as you are trying to do.
GoogleVoice is great as a free service, but for a few dollars a month, life becomes easier elsewhere.
While I would like more configurability at times, the ability of GV to weed out the mass of telemarketing calls is something I really really like. I only need to deal with those few who get through. I'm not aware of other VOIP services which do as good a job of blocking these calls.
Nomorobo looks to be available for GV, as I see it in their list of carriers... but even the single ring of a telemarketer is a disruption which I don't appreciate.
-gary
gary-gary:
Quote from: azrobert on April 19, 2017, 08:34:41 am
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Why does my attempt to route the call to the unused line port not work? Is it possible to route to the line port in such a manner as to deliberately cause a call failure and have the OBi110 generate a SIT tone?
It's basically the same scenario as routing the call to nowhere. GV is forwarding the call to your OBi110. If the forward fails or not answered, it will be sent to VM. A forked call will continue to ring your cell if the other leg fails.
Auto Attendant Setup:
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This is a rather neat trick! Thanks! I've implemented it with a few additions...
I found that the OBi announcements "Welcome to OBi attendant... Main menu" were still being played. I managed to disable them with these additional edits:
Auto Attendant 1 Prompts > Welcome: &pause()
Auto Attendant 1 Prompts > MenuTitle: &pause()
In testing, I found that it failed for some reason 4 out of 10 times, and the call went to GV voicemail. I'm puzzled by this, as a 40% failure rate is not good. Possibly I did not give the unit enough time to reestablish its connection to the GV mothership after rebooting.
Now is there some way terminate the call quicker? I find that it will play my recorded SIT intercept message 4-times, followed by "there is no service to complete your call" 3-times, before finally hanging up. Perhaps some edits to the current AA DigitMap?
([1-9]x?*(Mpli)|[1-9]|[1-9][0-9]|<00:$1>|0|**1(Msp1)|**2(Msp2)|**8(Mli)|**9(Mpp)|(Mpli))
-gary
gary-gary:
Well, I just made an interesting observation...
My recorded SIT message consists of the intercept tones repeated twice. This message was initially played 4-times.
Then the OBi message "there is no service to complete your call" is played 3-times, each time followed by a single SIT intercept tone. This must be the internally generated SIT, as my recorded one is a double sequence!
-gary
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