PC-initiated Obi110 calls on attached phone... possible?
VulcanTourist:
Even though it isn't what I wanted, I installed OpiApp and XTalk, and I still can't get Telify to pass the number correctly to XTalk. The XTalk taskbar icon flashes, but no number appears in its window and no dialing occurs. If I enter it manually it works (though I have some vexing issue with the front panel microphone connection).
QBZappy:
VulcanTourist,
I was lucky when I tested "Telify" Firefox addon this afternoon. It worked right away with a sip softphone Jitsi ( http://jitsi.org/ ). This is an open source sip phone with many features. One feature in particular you may be interested in is it natively reads contacts on Outlook for dialing. This is one of the few that I have found that can do this, and certainly the only free one I could find.
Next I tried using Eyebeam v1.5, and Bria Professional. It didn't work. I did some digging on the Telify web site. It looks like you need a registry tweak for some sip clients to work. I looked in my registry and found Jitsi configured already. It must have been installed by the app.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\sip\shell\open\command = "C:\Program Files\Jitsi\run.exe" %1
If you have another sip app modify the registry to point to the path of the executable of your sip soft phone.
Click2Dial Solution:
Jitsi in theory can be used to make outbound calls using Outlook, and in addition with the ObiApp (Jitsi+OBiAPP) can be used as a Click2Dial from web pages and Emails using the OBi. If the reg tweak above works, I suppose any sip phone could be used to Click2Dial.
Off Topic: I was also able to make a call using Skype (v5.5.0.114). I did not test the other calling options. (Used Telify v1.2.4 + Firefox v7)
VulcanTourist:
That Registry value appears to already be set correctly for me as a result of simply installing XTalk:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\CounterPath\X-Lite 4\X-Lite4.exe" -action=call?to="%1"
Still doesn't work. It pops up the XTalk window if it's not already and flashes the taskbar icon, but does nothing further.
The Obi110 works well enough for simply making and receiving calls, but for me all the promises of extra features are a joke, and so is Obihai support. I couldn't get Skype set up on it, the voicemail notifications don't work, and the advanced setup required to do *anything* is hopelessly arcane without expert hand-holding that Obihai doesn't provide. The one single support request I initiated weeks ago was never even acknowledged. Google Voice is also proving to be less robust and reliable than Skype was; virtually every call has some kind of issue. I'm increasingly tempted to swallow bile over the new Skype ownership, dust off my old D-Link DPH-50U device, find a workaround for the Windows 7 x64 driver issue, and then find a Craigslist buyer for the Obi110.
QBZappy:
VulcanTourist,
The Telify web site seems to be off line at the moment. I am certain that I read X-Lite was supported when I read the page. Which version of XLite the site was referring to I can not say at the moment. Try it with Jitsi, you might like it. At least so that you have a positive experience with the product in combination with the OBiAPP and the OBi hardware.
VulcanTourist:
I've tried Jitsi now, it STILL doesn't work, and the whole combined configuration is so outside my expertise that I don't know WTF I'm doing when it's not perfectly auto-configured.
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