OBi110 and Ooma Together?
MichiganTelephone:
I don't have an Ooma, but with regard to your last point, if you need any help or advice on that try here:
How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home
With regard to your other questions, if you connect the output (phone port) of the Ooma to the Line port of the OBi110, then you should be able to use a phone connected to the OBi110's Phone port and dial # to get dial tone from the Ooma, or dial **8 + the number you want to route it to the Ooma. But I also think that if you went into the OBi110's portal (Phone port section) you could select your primary line to be the PSTN Line (and therefore the Ooma in this case), in which case calls dialed normally would go out via the Ooma but calls dialed using the **1 prefix would go out via Service Provider 1.
There is also the possibility to select a Trunk Group which may bring you closer to what you want, but you'd have to know how to configure it. I was told once that in the Trunk Groups and Gateways section, if you create a Trunk Group with sp1,sp2 it would allow the device to automatically use the sp2 account if sp1 is in use. So maybe you could use something like li,sp1 to try the PSTN port first, then fall over to sp1 (Google Voice) if it's not available. So, you could give that a try.
MichiganTelephone:
I'll take a crack at this but if OBi-Guru says something different, take his advice, not mine!
Quote from: alins on February 10, 2011, 02:12:13 pm
Thanks so much OBi-Guru. I assume I can also connect the phone port of the OBi110 to a splitter, connect a cordless phone to one splitter output (near the Obi), and run a phone cord from the other splitter output to a wall jack (which is much farther away). Is this correct?
Yes. Or you could put a splitter at the phone jack and connect your phone there. There is nothing magical about a splitter, it is effectively just two phone jacks connected to the same line.
Quote from: alins on February 10, 2011, 02:12:13 pm
Also, forgive me but what is SP1?
Service Provider 1, which in your case will be Google Voice (you could also put a second Google Voice account on SP2 if you wanted to).
Quote from: alins on February 10, 2011, 02:12:13 pm
Is there a way to get rid of the # sign at the end when making a call?
Yes, but that gets into messing with digit maps. Baby steps — after you get everything else working then you can come back to that.
Quote from: alins on February 10, 2011, 02:12:13 pm
Finally, when Ooma is busy, and I pickup one of the cordless handsets, as I press **1 will the other party who is talking on Ooma, hear these beeps?
Yes. Please keep in mind you only have ONE phone port coming out of your OBi device. Once the OBi100's become available, there might be a way you could buy one of them and "slave" it off the OBi110, so you'd have a second phone port and access to both the Ooma (which would remain plugged into the OBi110) and to the Google Voice account(s) on sp1 and sp2. I don't know offhand how you'd do that (only because I've never tried) but I'll bet it could be done, possibly by using the OBiTALK network as a bridge between the two devices. But unless you do something like that, or just run the Ooma and OBi110 as separate devices, you're still only going to have only one phone line for all your phones.
(EDIT: Regarding "slaving" one OBi device off another, I think this is sort of what the Home to Office Phone System Extension Wizard does.)
If you had two-line phones, I'd say just connect one line to the Ooma and the other to the OBi110, then you could use both your Ooma and your Google Voice account simultaneously.
NerdUno:
No need for a second Google Voice account on SP2. You can use the same one on SP1 and SP2 to make two calls. ;)
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