ObiWiFi5G to enable cell phone's Wi-Fi to answer/make calls?
azrobert:
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So the cell phone running the Android app "CSipSimple" acts as a SIP phone connected to, say PhonePower, via the Internet.
This is NOT what I'm suggesting. The softphone registers directly to the OBi. Outbound calls are sent to the OBi and then routed out SP1. Inbound calls on SP1 are routed to the phone port and to the softphone.
You could register the softphone directly to Phonepower. I'm not familiar with Phonepower, so I'm not sure it will work. Phonepower would have to support 2 extensions, the OBi and the softphone and it must be able to route inbound calls to both.
TimDan:
Quote from: SteveInWA on June 21, 2017, 08:00:57 pm
For gawd's sake. You could have bought a brand new DECT 6.0 cordless phone by now, and be happily making phone calls.
For example: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Vtech-CS6114-Cordless-Phone-with-Caller-ID/15529448 for $15.00
Of course, that is the 1st solution that I thought of, but it involves device proliferation and it's not as elegant as just carrying a cell phone to the carport in my pocket. It is cheap, though. Maybe I'll just drop a twisted pair out my kitchen window to the carport and use an old princess phone. How's that for clunky? :-)
TimDan
TimDan:
Quote from: azrobert on June 21, 2017, 08:12:43 pm
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So the cell phone running the Android app "CSipSimple" acts as a SIP phone connected to, say PhonePower, via the Internet.
This is NOT what I'm suggesting. The softphone registers directly to the OBi. Outbound calls are sent to the OBi and then routed out SP1. Inbound calls on SP1 are routed to the phone port and to the softphone.
You could register the softphone directly to Phonepower. I'm not familiar with Phonepower, so I'm not sure it will work. Phonepower would have to support 2 extensions, the OBi and the softphone and it must be able to route inbound calls to both.
I've already spoken with the lead tech support agent at PhonePower, and he offered no solutions and never mentioned a SIP client for Android, and I felt that I was pushing beyond his tech envelope. I'll try PhonePower one more time, though.
TimDan
SteveInWA:
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not as elegant as just carrying a cell phone to the carport in my pocket.
What's elegant about that? It isn't even a cell phone, since you canceled service on it.
You know, you can save those little scraps of bar soap, and use a kitchen grater to turn it into laundry soap, or you can use stolen grocery dairy cartons and an old door as a table, or you can save up kitchen grease and run your diesel car on it, or you can turn a tuna can into a stove...
There comes a point where it turns into being a pathological cheapskate, just for the sake of seemingly saving a buck. I give up.
Taoman:
Quote from: azrobert on June 21, 2017, 08:12:43 pm
You could register the softphone directly to Phonepower. I'm not familiar with Phonepower, so I'm not sure it will work. Phonepower would have to support 2 extensions, the OBi and the softphone and it must be able to route inbound calls to both.
It should work. PhonePower supports 4 simultaneous registrations to the same account. All endpoints will ring for incoming calls. PhonePower doesn't support "extensions" (with separate SIP credentials for each extension) the way your average VoIP provider does.
For that matter they don't support SIP URI either which is an instant fail for me.
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