Single phone for callcentric and landline ?

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RonR:
Are you simply allowing Google Voice's voicemail to take the message or did you get fancier with call forwarding or ???

If it's Google Voice taking the message because you aren't answering the call, then the OBi doesn't come into play and it's a problem with their voicemail not recognizing that the caller hung up.

cacophony:
I'm not using Google Voice at all. Currently I have the landline hooked into the line port of the Obi110 and my phone/answering machine hooked up to the phone port. When I call out it uses callcentric. The exact setup you suggested above.

In the issue I'm describing I'm not using the phone when somebody calls, and it's the answering machine built into my phone that takes the message. In other words, somebody calls my landline and it rings my phone for 4 rings and then the answering machine picks up. When my phone/machine was plugged directly into my landline it recorded messages fine, but now that it's routed through the Obi110 5 seconds of extra noises get recorded after the caller has hung up.

RonR:
OK, now I've got the picture.  Then it sounds like the OBi might not be recognizing that the caller hung up and consequently, is not dropping the bridge between the LINE Port and the PHONE Port.  Many answering machines tend to be dumb and hang up only on silence detection.  If the LINE and PHONE Ports stay bridged and the answering machine doesn't hang up, you'll get the junk you're hearing from the phone company (you can simulate it by not hanging up the phone after the person who called you does).  The OBi has a number of methods for detecting that the caller has hung up, but I haven't had to alter the default settings.  You might want to read up on the LINE Port's settings in the OBi Administrator Guide and experiment a little.  You can always put things back the way they were with the default checkboxes.

cacophony:
Thanks Ron, I'll take a look.

cacophony:
I figured out some settings that eliminate the noises (fast busy signal, dialtone) following the end of a message on my answering machine:

CPCDelayTime = 5 ms
CPCDuration = 800 ms

Hopefully this will help somebody else out in the future.

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