Quote from: SteveInWA on August 05, 2018, 06:08:54 PM
Nonsense. It is impossible for OBiTALK to configure a different SPx than the one you select. You can scour this forum's entire history to see that it's never happened. Whatever problems you had were self-inflicted by using both the portal and the local device configuration pages.
And yet, it did. To some extent you're right, though. Whenever it was when I set up my Obi202 (upgraded from my Obi100 in 2013), I had to use the portal to configure GV. After that, I disconnected/deleted my device and configured the rest with the UI. So, adding it back last month to allow the reconfiguration to GV/SIP created all sorts of difficulties for me, well-documented elsewhere on these here forums.
I maintain my position that the Portal is user-hostile unless you've ALWAYS kept your device registered there, added all your speed dials ONLY via the Portal, etc., etc. It would improve itself immensely if it would instead of nuking your settings flat the instant you add an externally (i.e. UI) pre-configured device to the Portal, it would read the current settings into Obi Expert and let you work from there.
Among those were the problems of GV showing up on the wrong SP, or on two at once. It took a factory reset and deleting the device from the Portal and re-adding it more than once to get it to behave as one might have reasonably expected in the first place.
So, long story short, NO, I don't have sufficient screen grabs to show you the evidence, and YES, it's just my word against yours, but why would I lie about this? And while I don't have your degree of experience with these, I do own 4 Obihai devices I've used over the years since they first were available, and a certain amount of experience integrating them with the dashboards of three other services to do what I need.
Obihai devices are NOT simply GV extensions or Obitalk accessories. Those services do indeed have value to the end user and I'm not attacking them. (The Obitalk Portal I'm happy to complain about, but only because it doesn't do what I want, the way I'd like, and it could easily be fixed without degrading its function if anyone would care about the complaints at least a few of us have made.) But the ATAs also integrate well with heavy-featured web-based services like those of
voip.ms and Callcentric, and I'm sure others.
Other than for GV, I haven't found any value-added features of the Portal and ObiExpert relative to the UI, at least for me, and I have found some limitations. If that's my own fault, I'll own it. But, I own my 2 Obi202s, my Obi200, a couple of Obi WiFis, and safe in a drawer somewhere, my venerable Obi100. I'm a fan of the products. I'm also entitled to use them according to the Device Administration Guide if I want to, aren't I?
And the Portal DEFINITELY DID add GV to SP2 after a configuration to SP1 didn't work and I tried to start over. Probably because you can't just click on SP1 to reconfigure GV without deleting it first. FROM BOTH the portal and your device. The end result is an unconfigured SP1 and EVEN THOUGH you used the portal to specifically add GV to SP1, it ends up on the next available SP, which is SP2. Now, maybe the Portal has been debugged since then, but that was the behavior on July 5.
