Help with Obi and GV setup for my 90 year-old mother please
Sax12:
My phone rings only 3 times and goes in message mode. How do I set it to ring for a long time so my elderly mom has enough time to pick it up? Thanks.
Shale:
Are you talking about the local answer machine? If that is the case, do .....
Are you talking about Google Voice voice mail? In that case you cannot do what you want without changing to a different service provider. Even if the local answer machine is picking up, you still cannot do what you ask for using GV. It will go to voice mail after 25 seconds.
Sax12:
I guess I am talking about GV. When some one calls the GV number that I setup for my mom, the phone only rings a few times and asks the caller to leave a message. This is not enough time for my mom to pick up the phone. Is there a way to turn-off GV and still have the free-call service? Thanks.
Shale:
Quote from: Sax12 on May 26, 2013, 06:39:29 pm
I guess I am talking about GV. When some one calls the GV number that I setup for my mom, the phone only rings a few times and asks the caller to leave a message. This is not enough time for my mom to pick up the phone. Is there a way to turn-off GV and still have the free-call service? Thanks.
You can get a pretty inexpensive service that can let the phone ring for more than 25 seconds, but I don't know that you can get free.
Also note that GV does not have 911 service.
You could use a system of dialing out on GV, and receiving incoming calls on another service. This would be pretty transparent to your mother.
Koby:
One thing you could do is run Asterisk on something like a Raspberry Pi, then divert calls from the Obi to Asterisk (similar to what is described here) and let Asterisk "answer" the call as soon as it arrives. But note that if anyone calls your mom long distance, they would be billed for the call whether she ultimately answers or not. If that's not a problem for you, but setting up a PBX is more than you want to tackle then feel free to PM me, I may have another (free) solution for you but there are pros and cons to it that I don't want to talk about on an open forum.
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