Configure Caller ID WITH NAME?
babobi:
:o Geez that sounds really complex MT and I'm not really sure what you are talking about. ??? Thanks just the same for all the info tho. Right now I have my Obi 110 hooked up to my landline phone which uses Comcast Digital Voice for all OUTGOING calls via the PSTN Line. The INCOMING calls are received from my Google Voice number which gets forwarded FROM my Comcast Digital Voice landline phone number. So since I already have an existing Caller ID with name from Comcast Digital Voice, is there any way I can utilize/configure that with my existing setup to be able to see the names with the numbers on Caller ID for incoming calls?
If not, guess I'll just have to wait for an opening from Simon Telephonics and hopefully it will be in the near future. :) Thanks again!
RFord:
What you can do is to connect the Line from your Comcast device to a splitter. Connect one line from the splitter to the OBi ATA LINE port and the other Line to a dedicated CallerID Box or a Phone with CallerID.
Rick:
Quote from: babobi on May 24, 2012, 09:43:33 pm
:o Geez that sounds really complex MT and I'm not really sure what you are talking about. ??? Thanks just the same for all the info tho. Right now I have my Obi 110 hooked up to my landline phone which uses Comcast Digital Voice for all OUTGOING calls via the PSTN Line. The INCOMING calls are received from my Google Voice number which gets forwarded FROM my Comcast Digital Voice landline phone number. So since I already have an existing Caller ID with name from Comcast Digital Voice, is there any way I can utilize/configure that with my existing setup to be able to see the names with the numbers on Caller ID for incoming calls?
If not, guess I'll just have to wait for an opening from Simon Telephonics and hopefully it will be in the near future. :) Thanks again!
I've not used Comcast Digital Voice, but I can't imagine that they don't offer certain screening / blocking capability. A quick Google search showed you can block up to 12 numbers.
babobi:
Quote from: RFord on May 25, 2012, 02:16:10 am
What you can do is to connect the Line from your Comcast device to a splitter. Connect one line from the splitter to the OBi ATA LINE port and the other Line to a dedicated CallerID Box or a Phone with CallerID.
Now that sounds like something simple that I am capable of doing. ;D Thanks for the tip, RFord. Does anyone know if this would work?
babobi:
Quote from: Rick on May 25, 2012, 04:38:41 am
I've not used Comcast Digital Voice, but I can't imagine that they don't offer certain screening / blocking capability. A quick Google search showed you can block up to 12 numbers.
Yes Rick, Comcast Digital Voice DOES offer screening/blocking -- but as you see, it's ONLY for 12 numbers maximun, which is not nearly enough for the TONS of junk, spam and scam calls we are inundated with ALL THE TIME. :P I don't know how we got on these cursed "lists," perhaps the fact that we have a public phone number that's in the white pages? We are also on the Do Not Call registry, but that doesn't deter charities, politicos, salesmen, and unscrupulous bottom feeding con artists from calling EVERY DAY. The tally for junk phone numbers I've accrued and sent to our Google Voice spam folder is well over 200 and counting. Comcast Digital Voice allows one to block 12 numbers, which is quite pathetic. :'( >:(
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