Obi110: Any way to pick up to an existing call?
drbobguy:
Quote from: Mango on March 21, 2013, 07:44:09 pm
You can set the PHONE port's OutboundCallRoute to {li} however that would prevent you from routing calls via OBiTALK/SP1 as all outbound calls would go through the LINE port. If there is a better way to accomplish this, I would love to know what it is.
That's unfortunately and not what I'd like to do. Basically I want the phone to work exactly as her phone worked before, UNLESS she hits a special key combo (**1) to enable the VOIP.
Logically this should be doable:
IF there is an existing phone call on the landline AND the phone connected to the OBI opens a connection to the OBI, THEN bridge the existing call to the OBI phone.
Maybe I'm missing something as to how phones work.
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Is there any chance you have the "old" version of the OBi110 with the FXS->FXO relay? In other words, if you remove the power from the OBi, (but not the cordless phone) can you still make and receive calls via the POTS line?
Just tried this and it definitely doesn't work. With power off to the OBI there is no pass through at all.
ianobi:
Your OBi110 is a very polite device and is designed not to "barge-in" if the landline is already in use. Mango has explained how to "barge-in" by pressing "#". Here's another idea, but only you can decide if it will suit your mother. My mother is 88, so I know how difficult some of this can be!
Maybe what you need is automatic "barge-in". This change would mean that if your mother picked up a handset connected to the OBi110 Phone Port and pressed the connect button, after 4 seconds it would automatically barge-in on the landline. You can change the 4 seconds to more or less as needed.
Add this rule <S4:#> to the Phone Port DigitMap. It could go anywhere, I have put it at the front:
Physical Interfaces > PHONE Port > DigitMap:
(<S4:#>|[1-9]x?*(Mpli)|[1-9]S9|[1-9][0-9]S9|911|**0|***|#|**1(Msp1)|**2(Msp2)|**8(Mli)|**9(Mpp)|(Mpli))
When originating a call from the phones connected to the OBi Phone Port, as soon as any digit is dialled, the new rule is ignored. If she is a bit slow and waits more than 4 seconds to dial the first digit, then she will be automatically dialling directly on the land line.
Anyhow, just a thought - good luck with it.
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