Favorite OBi Tricks
Judgeless:
This setup keeps getting better. I have 5 OBI boxes, 4 connected to my PBX.
Line one home number
Line two old business number
Line three the Google number that calls my work cell and rings at home. My new business number.
Line four the wife’s Google number that calls her work, cell and rings at home. Her new business number.
The fifth is a box that I can call out (using line 3 caller id) remotely that rings when line three rings.
I can also call into the PBX and dial any extension in the house. Also when my doorbell rings it calls my cell phone.
The last thing I want to do is forward 911 to a landline that my DSL uses. I never use the number and the line is not connected to my PBX. I am not asking how to do this yet. I am still working on a few other things.
I also have an icon (VB App) that I got off this forum that lets me record calls on the fly.
This is a great product. I wish more devices in the world were this configurable.
MichiganTelephone:
I figured out today that you can route your Google Voice calls through Bill Simon's gateway and often get at least something useful in the Caller ID NAME display. The method has its pros and cons:
How to use the Simon Telephonics Google Voice gateway with an Obihai device to provide Caller ID Name on incoming Google Voice calls
tome:
Quote from: MichiganTelephone on April 15, 2012, 05:57:30 pm
I figured out today that you can route your Google Voice calls through Bill Simon's gateway and often get at least something useful in the Caller ID NAME display. The method has its pros and cons:
How to use the Simon Telephonics Google Voice gateway with an Obihai device to provide Caller ID Name on incoming Google Voice calls
Looks like there is another way to get Caller ID with Name for free (or for e911 fee?). I already have Callcentric e911 service on my Obi for which I pay $1.50/mo. Callcentric currently has a free phone number offer (in the NY state area): http://www.callcentric.com/dids/free_phone_number.
1) I got one of these numbers.
2) Went to Google voice settings and turned off "Forward calls to: Google chat". This did not do anything with outbound calling, that still works from my obi.
3) Added the new Callcentric number as a forwarding number in GV (on same screen as #2 - "Add another phone"
4) Verified this new added phone number and made sure it is selected for forwarding GV calls to.
5) (re)Enjoy knowing who is calling
There is no charge for the number or for incoming calls, at least as long as the offer lasts. If you do not currently have e911 service you may have to buy that in order to get one of these number. This was reported by someone else, so I cannot verify if that is true or not, but the terms and conditions of the free number offer do indicate that e911 service is required and separate.
Tom
Hortoristic:
Tome - I got the free Callcentric number - just checking - am I removing the GV on my OBI device, and replacing it with Callcentric since all my GV calls will be forwarded to it? I guess I'm not getting how having forwarded GV numbers to this free DID, will now ring my OBI?
Since I only have SP1 as GV and SP2 as voip.ms - I'm thinking your solution requires it's own SP slot? So maybe get new OBI202 so I can configure SP3 with Callcentric, then have GV forward to this new Callcentric number then I'll have caller name?
QBZappy:
CC is registered as a sip acct on the OBi
Call->GV (forwarded)->CC (registered)->OBi (rings)
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