Hi Everyone,
As most all of you are aware, an OBi device can make calls to other OBi devices and soft phones (running on smart phones, tablets and PCs) out-of-the-box. Customers use this capability to make calls to OBi devices to ring its attached phone or to bridge a call to a regular phone number -- using the OBi device as a VoIP gateway.
To maintain OBiTALK OBi-to-OBi calling functionality (and related features), Obihai may make configuration or software modifications to devices that use the OBiTALK Service. Otherwise, when there is a 'service' affecting issue, we may need to update its config or software. This is memorialized in the OBiTALK terms of service and this is what we did on Wednesday. There are no backdoors on Obihai products.
Service providers with whom we do business have access to additional provisioning capabilities that, depending on how they utilize the OBi device remote configuration process, can affect how the device behaves in relation to available OBiTALK-driven services. Just like individual owners of Obihai devices, service provider owners have 100% control over how the device operates.
By keeping OBiTALK Service and OBiTALK provisioning enabled, the following services are available today (more will be available in the future):
Including: Calling to/from your OBi to/from the OBiON for iPhone or Android and OBiApp for PC
- OBi-to-OBi-to-SIP or Google Voice Service Calling (and vice-versa)
- OBiTALK Device Configuration
Including Configuration of SIP and Google Voice Service(s)
Emergency Calling Service Set-Up
Convenient Setting Time-Zone, Attendant PIN, etc.
- OBiTALK Circle of Trust Invites / Acceptance
- Speed Dial Configuration Across All Your OBi Devices & Soft Phone
- Assignment of Trusted Callers' Phone Numbers for Access to the OBi Attendant for Service Bridging
- OBi Expert Cloud Based Configuration
By the way: We are Fixing the Config Import Function
- Direct Support from Obihai via e-mail or Phone
As for deleting topics (and posts) on the OBiTALK forum, we do this very rarely, but topics (or individual posts) are deleted when they contain falsehoods and/or inaccurate information that would be misleading and unproductive to the OBi user community. We want the forum to be place where a user can go to learn about how to use an OBi product without fear they will receive false information that would hinder their ability to use the product. QBZappy is one of the forum's top contributors and a valuable, knowledgeable asset to the community. QBZappy's topic-creating post was not the offending one, but there were several other posts that made there, making that particular thread worthless to the community. So we deleted it.
Thank you,
Sherman
sherman@obihai.com
