NEED HELP CONNECTING (2) OBI110 FOR REMOTE PAGING ACCESS
miteldavid:
I am newbie trying to install (2) Obi110 for paging access to a remote site. Both units are connected to a network at a school under different subnets, but subnets are ping one another. I can call each other with some ip routing and speed dial today. But what I like to accomplish is being able pick up a telephone in (site A) connected to #1 OBi110 telephone port and be connected to #2 OBi110 in remote (site B) with Simplex PA Intercom Dial tone connected to the Line port of the #2 OBi110 and be able to dial any digit over Simplex PA system and page over head. Simplex PA system would be the Dial tone. Thanks in advance!
ianobi:
This may be the first paging question we have had on this forum! According to the OBiDeviceAdminGuide:
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Using the OBi as a Paging System
You may connect the OBi PHONE port to an external PA system via an RJ11-to-Line-Out connector (available at many poular electronics shops), and enable the PHONE port option UseForPagingOnly. In this configuration, the phone port is expected to be “off-hook” all the time. The OBi will automatically answer incoming calls. It will not accept call-waiting. When the phone port goes from on-hook to off-hook, in case the user needs to dial * * * to invoke the IVR, the OBi will play a dial tone for 5 seconds. After 5 seconds the OBi will turn silent and be ready to accept an incoming call to page.
If you connect the Phone Port of your #2 OBi110 to the PA, then call it from OBi #1, you should be connected through to the PA system. Looks like OBi #2 will auto-answer any incoming call and connect to the Phone Port.
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what I like to accomplish is being able pick up a telephone in (site A) connected to #1 OBi110 telephone port and be connected to #2 OBi110 in remote (site B)
This requires #1 OBi110 to be configured as a "hot-line" to #2 OBi110. This can be done, but then you lose any other functions that #1 OBi110 might be useful for. Is it not good enough to use the speed dial you have set up to connect through to #2 OBi110?
Looks like an interesting project. Let us know how it progresses.
QBZappy:
I have experimented with the paging feature in the past. It worked as advertized. Considering the cost of dedicated paging systems out there, this is a very low cost solution if someone needs this feature.
drgeoff:
Quote from: ianobi on August 19, 2013, 09:31:57 am
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what I like to accomplish is being able pick up a telephone in (site A) connected to #1 OBi110 telephone port and be connected to #2 OBi110 in remote (site B)
This requires #1 OBi110 to be configured as a "hot-line" to #2 OBi110. This can be done, but then you lose any other functions that #1 OBi110 might be useful for. Is it not good enough to use the speed dial you have set up to connect through to #2 OBi110?
An alternative compromise is to configure #1 OBi110 as a "warm line". If no digits are dialled within say 5 seconds of taking the phone off-hook then #1 OBi calls #2 OBi. If digits are dialled within the time-out period they are used in the normal way. (This is how my OBi110 and wife's mother's PAP2 are configured for calling each other.)
miteldavid:
Thanks to all for the quick response! I would like to try setting up as a hotline can any please help me out with settings for both OBi110?
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