OBi with two Google Voice accounts
Brad:
How would this work if you also wanted to use CallCentric for the E911 service? As far as I can tell the OBi110 only allows you to add two Service Providers. If both of those are occupied by the two Google Voice accounts, is there a way behind the scenes to add the CallCentric account as a third Service Provider? If not, is there another solution?
Thanks,
Brad
Stewart:
Why do you need/want the second GV account? If it's merely to answer calls, you can bring those in via a free or paid DID, such as IPKall, to a SIP service. If you need to occasionally make calls with outbound caller ID of the second account, you could call through the first, or call from a paid SIP service that allows you to spoof the caller ID.
If you will be doing heavy outbound calling from both accounts and also want SIP, you will need two OBi devices.
Brad:
Thanks Stewart for your ideas, but that sounds overly complicated to me. The reason for having two GV accounts is because there are two GV users living in the same household who share a common home phone. GV is designed to be specific to the user and not the phone, so the ideal solution would be that the OBi is configured for both GV accounts with one account acting as the default outbound account. Unfortunately, OBi chose to limit the device to just 2 service providers. This needs to be expanded to at least 5 in my opinion.
Does anybody else have any other ideas on how to workaround the 2 service provider limitation and configure 2 GV accounts plus a CallCentric account for E911 services? If not, I guess the only possible solution would be to have 2 OBi devices which is unfortunate to say the least. I'm not sure if this would even work. Can the phone port from 2 OBi devices be hooked up to the same telephone if a line splitter is used?
Thanks in advance for your help.
DaveSin:
I see no reason why the Callcentric (or anveo for that matter) account cannot be setup on one of the Voice Gateway Accounts or even through a speed dial entry, with the appropriate variables specify. If I not mistaken, Callcentric allows calls without registration, so this should work. You might want to send an email to either Callcentric or anveo to confirm.
Quote from: Brad on January 12, 2012, 09:45:03 am
Does anybody else have any other ideas on how to workaround the 2 service provider limitation and configure 2 GV accounts plus a CallCentric account for E911 services?
Stewart:
Quote from: Brad on January 12, 2012, 09:45:03 am
The reason for having two GV accounts is because there are two GV users living in the same household who share a common home phone.
IMHO, that's the problem. I surely wouldn't set up a system that prevented me from making or receiving a call, just because my wife was yapping away. The straightforward solution is two OBi devices connected to separate phones, to several two-line phones, or to a two-line multi-handset system.
I suppose that if you just spent a bundle on a single-line cordless system with six handsets, you might feel pretty strongly about using that. You could daisy-chain two OBi devices (at least one must be an OBi110), so one looks like a "landline" to the other. Or, with one OBi, get a DID for your Callcentric service and have the secondary GV account ring that. There are lots of other ways to skin this cat, but your desired combination of cheap, good and simple is IMO not available in this situation (nor in most aspects of life).
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