Pros and Cons of using OBiTALK Provisioning and OBiTALK portal for configuration
ProfTech:
There is no way to load an "off-portal" config into the portal. There is a button on the web screen that says "import" but I don't believe Obihai ever got it to work. Anyway, as QBZappy said if you press **5 and register your unit on the portal, a bunch of stuff gets set back to default settings in the Obi and you have to start over. However, for your new unit that you want to manage from afar you should be able to do that just fine. Just be sure and create a new account for it. Be advised that you can't look at call history via the portal and as previously stated, you can't use speed dial slot #1. I have two Obi's that I administer via the portal and one [mine] that I administer locally and it works fine.
jimates:
I was a fan of the portal (for unknown reasons) until the Callcentric fiasco. I had to reset my Obi202 to factory settings using the phone port. I thought the portal would automatically reconfigure my device using the configuration from the Obi Expert Configuration via provisioning. Not so. Eventually I had to delete my device, add it back and then manually input all my configurations. If I had to do that, what benefit is the portal.
QBZappy:
jimates,
Good thing you keep that spreadsheet with your config. :D
Ostracus:
Quote from: jimates on November 16, 2012, 10:50:50 am
I was a fan of the portal (for unknown reasons) until the Callcentric fiasco. I had to reset my Obi202 to factory settings using the phone port. I thought the portal would automatically reconfigure my device using the configuration from the Obi Expert Configuration via provisioning. Not so. Eventually I had to delete my device, add it back and then manually input all my configurations. If I had to do that, what benefit is the portal.
Noted, although the ability to load configuration on the device's web page itself is still there, so the pain isn't quite as bad as starting completely fresh.
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