What about 911?? Your Obi can call a Local Emergency Number when you dial 911
colortheory:
Fantastic, thanks! I'll give it a shot tomorrow.
ruel:
hello. thanks for the guidance here on setting up 911 on the OBi. before i got somewhat of an limited understanding of this scripting of rules on the OBi, i was seriously thinking of dumping GV that i got for my OBi100 and only using Sipgate to avoid all of this scripting nonsense.
anyways, i have the OBi100. I have GV on sp1 for making outgoing calls, and I have Sipgate on sp2 for taking incoming GV calls:
incoming call --> GV --> Sipgate --> OBi100 sp2 --> house phone
house phone --> outgoing call --> OBi100 sp1 --> GV --> whoever is being called
(1) i'm planning to subscribe to E911 service on Sipgate. that means that i want the 911 calls to go out sp2. so according to the @jimates 911 guide, i would have to add the first rule to the beginning of the OutboundCallRoute:
{911:sp2},{([1-9]x?*(Mpli)):pp},{**0:aa},{***:aa2},{(<**1:>(Msp1)):sp1},{(<**2:>(Msp2)):sp2},{(<**9:>(Mpp)):pp},{(Mpli):pli}
so i only have to paste "{911:sp2}," (without the quotation marks) to the beginning of the OutboundCallRoute without making any other changes.
(2) but if don't want to subscribe to any E911 service, then i would have add a different rule
{(<911:12223334444>):sp1},{([1-9]x?*(Mpli)):pp},{**0:aa},{***:aa2},{(<**1:>(Msp1)):sp1},{(<**2:>(Msp2)):sp2},{(<**9:>(Mpp)):pp},{(Mpli):pli}
where i have to paste "{(<911:12223334444>):sp1}," (without the quotation marks) to the beginning of the OutboundCallRoute without making any other changes, where the call goes out sp1 via GV, and where 12223334444 is the 1-ten-digit telephone number for the emergency phone number.
i'm asking if my understanding of this is correct. i appreciate the guidance.
i'm guessing that the official OBihai folks may eventually provide simple wizards to implement setups for 911 and 411 without having to manually do this. although in retrospect this scripting of rules may not be too difficult to eventually understand, there is still a scary learning curve that one has to climb to get even a beginner's understanding of any of all this.
jimates:
You are correct in understanding what to add for the modifications.
Obihai could add a couple optional setting in the setup wizard for 911.
911 Voice Service - drop down with service options
selecting other than default would modify the OutboundCallRoute for chosen service
Alternate 911 Number - box for entering optional number
entering a number would also modify the OutboundCallRoute with entered number
They could do the same thing for 411
The Obi has provisions for directing a 911 call in the DigitMaps and CallRoutes, but it is not intended for emergency calling outside of those defaults. Perhaps without any direct options for emergency calling there is no implied responsibility.
I voiced my concern about the possible speed dial 911 conflict and no one was conerned.
ruel:
there's a speed dial for 911? i would think that punching in 9-1-1 on the keypad is fast enough. lol. oh well. is that like a ** command or something else? maybe i'm misunderstanding.
oh, btw, i put in the 911 rule on my OBi. thanks.
jimates:
Quote from: ruel on May 23, 2011, 03:24:54 pm
there's a speed dial for 911? i would think that punching in 9-1-1 on the keypad is fast enough. lol. oh well. is that like a ** command or something else? maybe i'm misunderstanding.
oh, btw, i put in the 911 rule on my OBi. thanks.
No, there was a concern (minimal it seems) about speed dial only requiring a single or double digit entry, without anything else. You just dial a single digit without having to press * or # etc.
If you press 9, and do not press another digit within 2 seconds, the obi is going to dial the number in speed dial placeholder 9. Same with any digit and slow dialing. I asked about needing to dial 911 and pausing after the first digit and the obi dialing another number. Obihai, and other forum members, seem to think no one will ever experience that situation. They like not having to dial the extra digit for speed dial.
Not a real concern of mine but on other forums, 911 is big concern.
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