The main drawbacks to disabling provisioning are the following:
1. You will not be able to use the
www.obitalk.com web portal to:
- Add & Configure devices
- Add services using the OBiTALK confg. helpers
- Input speed dials that get distributed to all your devices and soft phone
- Set up your Circle of Trust so your invited family and friends with OBiTALK accounts can share services amongst your OBi devices and soft phones.
- Set up Trusted Callers such that when your OBi is called by a trusted caller the OBi attendant answers and can direct them to make a new call.
2. You will not be able to use the OBi Expert Pages to manage the configuration of your device(s) from anywhere you can log-in to OBiTALK.
3. There are some projects coming up in the future that allow you to run apps developed by Obhai and third parties which leverage the OBiTALK provisioning connection.
4. Easily retrieve your configuration (minus passwords) in case you ever need to reset your device.
If you think you may need any of the above items, it is easy to re-enable OBiTALK provisioning and then use OBiTALK to add your device(s), set-up VoIP accounts and start making calls.
Just do this:
1. Factory reset your OBi device(s) by dialing ***8 - chose 1 and hang-up.
2. Get an OBiTALK account by registering at
www.obitalk.com3. Add your OBi device(s) - You will be automatically prompted to do this.
4. Press the Set-up Google Voice button on the Device Configuration page.
5. Add your Google Voice account information and press submit.