Suggestion: add pseudo-destinations for telemarketer blocking
QBZappy:
MichiganTelephone,
With the new Gateway firmware, I was thinking that it might be possible to send calls to music. I understand that when a call is bridged, the calling person hears music while the OBI tries to bridge. This could also be controlled by CID. Make the telemarketer waste his time listening to music.
MichiganTelephone:
QBZappy, really? I hadn't heard that. I wonder where the music comes from — seems like it would eat a lot of memory if stored in the device itself. Is there maybe some sort of streaming music server for the purpose?
AndroidsOfTara:
Quote from: MichiganTelephone on March 16, 2011, 09:50:54 pm
The idea this that these could be used in an InboundCallRoute, so for example you could have a rule such as {?:st} to block all anonymous calls by sending them to a SIT tone. Just a thought.
I'd like this ability as well as being able to disconnect a call after a set period of time. For example, a call would be routed to a busy tone for 10 seconds and then disconnected. Even better would be the ability to upload at least one "official" sounding intercept message followed by disconnection.
I had a service on my Cox POTS line for a few years called "selective call acceptance" which blocked all incoming calls except for those on a white list. I got tired of paying $40+ a month for a phone line I only used for my security system, 911 and the occasional call from a white listed number, so I dropped down to just a basic phone line with CID.
I have two GV accounts set up on my Obi. SP1 is my real GV number and SP2 is my "junk" number. With the exception of my real GV number, all incoming calls to LINE are bridged to to SP2 which dials my real GV number. That GV account is set up to block calls from the "junk" GV number and callers hear the GV disconnected number intercept message.
QBZappy:
RonR,
Do you see any way to route a call to any of the Tone settings?
QBZappy:
Apparently we can send callers to internal OBi tones. Using the method outlined in the thread below "Call blocking" sends callers to fast busy tone.
obi-support2 (http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=447.msg2880;topicseen#new)
"For blocked callers on the PSTN LINE, the call will just keep ringing.
For blocked callers on SP1/SP2/OBiTALK service, the caller will hear fast busy tone."
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