Your Google Voice Number Now Rings Multiple OBi-Attached Telephones
QBZappy:
Hot off the press:
OBi202 Pre-Release Software Rings Multiple OBi's from a Single Google Voice Number and Receives Text Messages to the Attached Phones Too!
http://blog.obihai.com/2012_11_01_archive.html
CoalMinerRetired:
Nice find.
They state "...use the OBiTALK web portal to set up two or more ..." Do we know if there is something special about the portal needed to make this work, will it work using manual setup?
QBZappy:
CoalMinerRetired,
Obihai pushes users to use the portal to configure the units, however to date the unit web page has had the ability to control 100% of the features, while the portal is lacking a few (Call history, config upload, etc). I suspect this a major feature addition, worthy of being controlled via both portal and unit web pages. Anything Google Voice related is a marketing departments dream come true. ShermanObi (marketing) must be salivating at the prospect of selling more units because of this feature. Seems odd that it goes counter current with the OBiPLUS service that they are offering. It is the first time that support is officially offered for concurrent use of Google Talk and OBi (GV).
Bay11:
I have the text message feature working. Tested with a few SMS Text messages.
However, one important point I initially over looked in the blog1 announcement -- you must enable the feature first in web portal. Simply upgrading your firmware alone will not enable the texting feature.
To enable this feature,
1) Click on 'Device Configuration', in the OBiTALK web portal
2) Scroll down to the 'Configure Voice Service Providers (SP#)' section on the web page.
3) Select the 'Google Voice' account you want to configure by clicking on the configure icon.
3) Once in the "SP#: Google Voice™ Account" area of your OBi202 Device Configuration, in the OBiTALK web portal you will see a new option,
"Google Text Message Notification" (Optional), click the check box option to enable this feature on the OBi202.
Other notes: On my phone2, the call rings with "Incoming Call" displayed (no text message yet).
I then have to go back into CID history to see the short message excerpt.
:) The new "Text Messages to Your Regular Home Phone" option is a nice feature to receive two-factor3 account authorization text messages from various internet sites for login authentication.
1. Blog announcement link -> http://blog.obihai.com/2012_11_01_archive.html
2. My phone is a cordless Panasonic DECT phone.
3. Two-factor authentication -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_authentication#SMS_one_time_password
QBZappy:
Quote from: Bay11 on November 14, 2012, 10:31:38 am
3) Once in the "SP#: Google Voice™ Account" area of your OBi202 Device Configuration, in the OBiTALK web portal you will see a new option,
"Google Text Message Notification" (Optional), click the check box option to enable this feature on the OBi202.
Do also you see this ability to configure the Google Text message in the OBi unit web page, or is it limited to the portal only?
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