Initiate calls from Google Voice contacts list?
dksh:
I just received my Obi110 but haven't started setting it up yet. I bought the Obi110 because I want to disconnect my POTS line.
I use a Google Apps for Business account and my Google Voice number for my home-based business. I've also started giving my Google Voice number to friends, family, businesses, and I have ALL my contacts in Google Voice and gmail, arranged in groups.
I have a multitude of business contacts, so I make calls by finding the contact in Google Voice and clicking on the phone number I want to call. It then rings my POTS line.
Can I do this with the Obi110, initiate a call from my contact list that connects to my Obi and the phone attached to it? If I have to find the contact, write down the number, close Google Voice and/or gmail and actually DIAL the number, I might as well send this thing back!
dksh:
To make it more clear: The ONLY thing I planned to have associated with my Obi is my Google Voice number. I don't plan to hook up my POTS line to the Obi because I want to see who is ringing my POTS line v. my Google Voice number so I know who I need to give my GV number to (or nag about changing my number in their contacts list).
QBZappy:
dksh,
If you connect a phone to the OBi you can change the ring tone of one of the lines and by the tone see the CID of the call.
dksh:
That's good to know, thanks.
But back to my original question, when I no longer have a POTS line, only a Google Voice number, can I click a contact's phone number in GV to start a call that is sent to my Obi-connected phone?
QBZappy:
I'm assuming that you are thinking of using the GV contact list from the browser. Although not the most efficient way to make an outgoing call, I think you can call the OBi and conference in another call. GV used to work differently before. It used to ring your device and automatically connect to the outbound tel number you had dialed. I think that would would have worked for you.
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