Multiple extensions on one call (like POTS)? Possibly FreePBX?
kayrjay:
Thanks drgeoff and azrobert. I have read and believe I understand your posts. Right at the moment, it doesn't look like the OBILine adapter will do what I need. I'll just have to wait till October to see what the OBI212 (if there is one) can do. I will try to reach out to OBIHAI directly and see what they say.
Thanks again.
drgeoff:
Quote from: kayrjay on August 31, 2017, 10:44:13 am
Thanks drgeoff and azrobert. I have read and believe I understand your posts. Right at the moment, it doesn't look like the OBILine adapter will do what I need. I'll just have to wait till October to see what the OBI212 (if there is one) can do. I will try to reach out to OBIHAI directly and see what they say.
Thanks again.
No need to wait until October. I can tell you now that an OBi212 isn't going to do what you want. It won't even do the 'hack' that azrobert postulated the OBi202 plus OBiLINE could do.
The basis of azrobert's suggestion is that the 202 supports barge-in from one phone port to the other. The OBi212 has only one phone port. (The second RJ11 in the photos is to plug in a POTS line, not a phone.)
kayrjay:
As I feared. Thanks, azrobert.
Dang, this is something I didn't know about when I went with a VOIP system. Our new home (in CA) does not have any wiring for phones, so that's why I went with the 1062s (which are Wifi connected). I naively thought multiple "extensions" could connect to the same call.
Maybe someday some VOIP service provider will offer "shared line appearance" or general barging or whatever they want to call it. Or, if this really becomes a priority, I'll have to consider a cloud-based PBX (but that seems expensive and complicated). I don't even know if the 1062s can be used with a PBX ...
Oh gee ... technology!
SteveInWA:
Quote from: kayrjay on August 31, 2017, 11:13:25 am
Maybe someday some VOIP service provider will offer "shared line appearance" or general barging or whatever they want to call it. Or, if this really becomes a priority, I'll have to consider a cloud-based PBX (but that seems expensive and complicated). I don't even know if the 1062s can be used with a PBX ...
Again, you are expecting IP phones to act like analog phones electrically connected together -- not gonna happen.
However, if you can move on from that expectation, you can set up multiple IP phones, and then simply do a warm transfer from one number to another, and then don't hang up. The result is a conference call.
Yes, you can do this with cloud-based services, and no, they aren't that expensive, and yes, you can generally use an OBi 1000 series IP phone.
Why not investigate DialPad? The company was started by the same people who created Grandcentral, the company that was eventually bought by Google and turned into Google Voice. It has many of the same features, plus a mobile client. They can directly provision OBi phones for your use with their service.
drgeoff:
3 party calls can already be easily done with all OBi ATAs and OBi phones. No additional services or subscriptions are necessary.
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