Need help with forwarding only one specific caller, and after x rings
RonR:
FeloniusMonkey,
When your sister-in-law uses her SIP client that's registered with Callcentric to call you, Callcentric is initiating a SIP URI call to your OBi. The OBi sees this as an incoming call from Callcentric number 1777xxxxxxx. When the OBi sees a call on SP2 from this number, it simultaneously rings the OBi PHONE Port and places an outgoing call to your wife's cell phone using SP1. The call to your wife's cell phone is delayed for 15 seconds. Whichever answers first gets bridged to the incoming call from Callcentric and the other is abandoned.
Using the Auto Attendant callback approach Stewart suggested, your sister-in-law would call your OBi from some recognizable phone number. When the OBi sees a call from this number, the call is routed to the Auto Attendant, but with a longer than usual answer delay. If she hangs up before the Auto Attendant answers, she will not be charged for the call and the Auto Attendant will call her back using one of your service providers. At that point, she could press 1 to ring the OBi PHONE Port or press 2 to initiate a new outbound call using one of your service providers, presumably to call your wife's cell phone (which could simply be a one- or two-digit Speed Dial for her to enter).
Many service providers do support multiple sessions. Google Voice allows 2. You can add additional providers for outgoing calls on Voice Gateways provided they don't require SIP registration. Regardless of the number of providers you have, the OBi is limited to four simultanous call bridges.
FeloniusMonkey:
Thanks again for this info!
RonR, I think I need to tweak something. When the call is forwarded to my wife's cell phone, the home phone keeps ringing. I presume once either phone is answered, the ringing on the other stops. I infer this because our answering machine picks up after a few more seconds, and the cell phone stops ringing. That basically means that my wife only has a couple seconds' window to answer her cell phone once it starts ringing. Is this a limitation of the X_InboundCallRoute solution, or is there something additional I can do to prevent the home phone line from continuing to ring? I really don't want to disable the answering machine... we kinda need it.
Thanks!
RonR:
Quote from: FeloniusMonkey on April 09, 2012, 09:14:58 am
I presume once either phone is answered, the ringing on the other stops.
That's correct. The first one to answer gets the call.
You may want to shorten the d=15 parameter to have the cell phone start ringing sooner.
FeloniusMonkey:
So there's no way to stop the phone from ringing at home once it starts ringing the cell?
RonR:
Quote from: FeloniusMonkey on April 09, 2012, 11:26:25 am
So there's no way to stop the phone from ringing at home once it starts ringing the cell?
Only by answering the cell.
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