ObiBT - multiple phone scenarios

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mish:
I understand that one can pair more than one phone with ObiBT.

Some questions:
1. If my cell phone rings, can I ring Ph1?
2. If my wife's phone rings, can I ring Ph2?
3. If we need to make a call, is it possible to make my cell phone default outbound trunk for Ph1? And for Ph2, can I make my wife's cell phone as default calling option?
    And in case, the cell phones are not connected (say are not in the same location), then can I make Obi202 default to some other Service Provider?


Is this described anywhere?

Thanks.

jimates:
ObiBT is a configurable service on the Obi just like the SPs, Obitalk, AA etc.

All services, including ObiBT are configured independently.
 
There are not individual settings for each paired device. The settings are for the ObiBT in general.

1 & 2 - You set the inbound call route for ObiBT (not each device) like any other service on the Obi. That can be one or both phones, plus forking the call.
3 - You set the default outbound service for each phone, not for each service.

To place a call using ObiBT when it is not the default for the phone, you prepend when dialing just like you would to use any other non default service from that phone.

OBiBlueTooth Call Features

OBiBlueTooth is the voice service that is made possible with an attached OBiBT dongle that is connected with a (in-service) mobile device. This service allows you to make or receive mobile calls using a conventional phone attached to the OBi phone port, or by bridging in a VoIP call over a SP service or OBiTALK service. OBiBlueTooth only allows one incoming or outgoing call on OBiBT at a time. In other words, there is no 3-way call or call-waiting support on OBiBlueTooth. The supported call features are similar to the equivalent ones supported under SP or OBiTALK service

mish:
Thanks for the reply.

I asked the question in the wrong manner. I meant to ask as to whether two phones can paid with 1 ObiBT at the same time. I gather that the answer is yes.

I understand from the last paragraph that you pasted, that if ObiBT is in use (i.e. one cell phone is being used through Obi202), then the second cell phone will not be available for outbound or inbound call through Obi202.

Correct?

And thanks again.

Just ordered an ObiBT and looking forward to pairing our phones.

GregoryZ:
I don't want to confuse things, especially since I don't have an OBi202 let alone an OBiBT.  

But, I thought I had read that if you used a USB Hub, that you can use both the Wifi and the OBiBT.  Wouldn't the same thing work with two OBiBT??

So I'm thinkng that each Cell Phone could connect to it's own OBiBT.  And Each OBiBT configured to it's own phone port.  If this were possible, This may allow for the setup you are looking for.  

Hope I haven't muddied up the water.  

Someone with knowledge of the OBi202 & OBiBT can take this idea further.  :)

-G

jimates:
Quote from: mish on September 06, 2012, 01:17:44 pm

Thanks for the reply.

I asked the question in the wrong manner. I meant to ask as to whether two phones can paid with 1 ObiBT at the same time. I gather that the answer is yes.

I understand from the last paragraph that you pasted, that if ObiBT is in use (i.e. one cell phone is being used through Obi202), then the second cell phone will not be available for outbound or inbound call through Obi202.

Correct?

And thanks again.

Just ordered an ObiBT and looking forward to pairing our phones.

You can pair up to 10 phones to one ObiBT.

You are correct. Only one session at a time on the ObiBT.


GregoryZ,

Since the ObiBT is actually a service on the Obi (which requires a secondary module), and not just an add on service, I doubt multiple devices would be supported.


Personally I would think making outgoing calls with multiple BT connected phones may be problematic. In the list one phone is selected as the preferred phone. I don't know if that means it is the default phone for outgoing calls or not. Why else would there be a preferred device.

I think this would be great (for some) for receiving calls on your cellular service(s) while at home. For me, since we use our google voice number exclusively and can configure google voice on the Obi directly, this device doesn't really have a place with us.

And you can configure conditional call forwarding on your cell phone itself to forward to either google other destinations, like a free callcentric DID. And these can be configured separately on the Obi.


Disclaimer:
I do not have an ObiBT device.

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