Set up google voicemail?
_David_:
Quote from: Lostdog on June 20, 2012, 02:51:06 pm
SOLVED!
I had the same cell phone that I'm forwarding calls to from GV listed in ObiTALK as a "Trusted Caller". So when I called home, it went through the Obi Attendant and rang and rang without Google Voicemail ever picking up. I DELETED my cell phone from the Trusted Caller list, then turned off and turned on my Obi 100. Boom, voicemail worked again. I tried the process again to see if it was repeatable, and it was. So that's the answer.
Stewart, Hero Member, I did try your *67 trick and it WORKED. It was kind of funny, as I was waiting for Google Voicemail to pick up, a mysterious "Unknown" caller was trying to call me at the same time! (Who could that have been?) I noticed that I wasn't going through the Obi Attendant, which is what made me stumble onto the solution. So thanks!
And, as for the other tests, when I tried calling my home line with the Obi turned off, I could reach voicemail and both make and receive calls from my computer.
Thanks for all your help! And that goes for pc44 and Rick as well! Cheers!
P.S. For anyone who stumbles onto this thread trying to figure out this stuff, I found this Google voicemail phone menu Quick Reference Guide helpful.
Thanks for the guide!
Yet another way... Rather than cut-n-paste my reply to a similar thread... here's the post.
rgds,
David
jimates:
It would be great if the Obi had a setting to auto answer all calls and still deliver them to the phone port. This would take google voicemail out of the loop.
There are many people that only use google voice for home service, with no other forwarding phones. They would love to have a way to bypass google's voicemail and have the phone ring long enough for them to get to it, and also to continue the use of their answering machine.
I guess with an extra open line on the Obi one could set up another service that has free incoming calls and forward the calls to it, which would ring the phone port.
stewart, what is the cheapest service to use for that? And is there a way to pass the original caller id with the second call, perhaps using a sip address for the Obitalk Service to forward to, instead of a regular DID.
Stewart:
Quote from: jimates on June 28, 2012, 02:43:34 pm
It would be great if the Obi had a setting to auto answer all calls and still deliver them to the phone port.
I'm confused. I read posts indicating that you invented a scheme that eliminates GV voicemail altogether, so doing that and simply routing SP1 to ph should be all that's needed.
Setting up another DID that GV rings to, with the OBi registered to that service, does not by itself solve the problem. That's because the service would not normally signal "answer" on the DID, until the OBi phone was picked up. So, the GV voicemail timer would continue to run, and the caller would still be transferred to voicemail after 25 seconds.
You could use VoxOx which gives FAS (false answer supervision). It's free but IMO not the most reliable, and also has some technical issues such as not passing DTMF.
Anveo (and probably some others) can be set up to answer the line and then ring the OBi. A Personal Unlimited US DID is $1.99/mo.; there are also other DID options.
Of course, any scheme that gives a fake answer would preclude having GV fork the call to other destinations. If desired, forking could be done in VoxOx (free) or Anveo ($0.01/min. to US destinations).
jimates:
I didn't invent a scheme, I just happened upon a configuration that does it.
I can not guarantee that I can replicate my bypass of google voice every time. Just wishing something more simple were available. I haven't tested my findings again because it requires transferring to new gmail accounts. I did try it with my sons google voice account without any luck. I use my own domain for mail at google, not sure if that has any bearing or not.
I understand that google would not be able to fork calls, this would be for those that do not use google voice for anything other than to ring their Obi at home.
NetTalk answers all call that come in to it, and then forks or forwards the calls as per the settings. I had one and could not use it as a forwarding phone on google voice because of that.
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