Call Back via Auto Attendant on the OBi Device
Stewart:
Quote from: RonR on October 21, 2011, 06:00:54 pm
Quote from: Stewart on October 21, 2011, 05:45:19 pm
The default value is 1000 ms, but you could set it longer, e.g. 30000, if that's a concern.
It's probably a typo on your part, but...
The default is 10000 ms which is 10 seconds.
Of course. Thanks for the correction.
Obvdobi:
Localphone looks great. Unforunately, it won't work for China.
I used Ron's method to add **3 Voice Gateway as LocalPhone branch. It works well.
Questions:
1. Why my callback is answered within 2 rings ...?
2. I have iNum through voip.ms. So my contact's only way to use iNum is through some Softphone in China or ATA device?
Quote from: Stewart on October 21, 2011, 05:45:19 pm
Quote from: Obvdobi on October 21, 2011, 05:18:35 pm
I'm thinking about using it for my international contact to do this from their phone number directly to save normal international phone cost. "To hang up before AA picks up" still carry the risk of being connected if the call was not ended in time.
Is it possible to let Obi refuse call (with busy tone) and then call back?
You can't make it refuse the call, but there is a parameter "AA Service::CallbackAnswerDelay" which controls the delay before the AA will answer (in the callback case only). The default value is 1000 ms, but you could set it longer, e.g. 30000, if that's a concern.
Also, what country is your contact in? If Localphone has access numbers there, you could set it up so your contact makes a local (or at least a national) call, so if it accidentally gets connected, the cost is lower. If one of your SP1 or SP2 providers offers iNum, there would be no charge from Localphone (and that may overall cost less than the callback system).
Stewart:
In countries where providers do not have access numbers, AFAIK your choices for free or inexpensive voice are limited to:
1. End-to-end VoIP. Obviously, your contact needs good Internet connectivity and a smartphone app / softphone / IP phone / Obi or other ATA.
2. Click-to-call. Offered by many providers, sometimes automated in an app. Contact needs some Internet connectivity.
3. Callback. Offered by a Future-Nine and a few others, or roll your own with an OBi.
4. In a few special cases, there might be a trick. For example, in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, some cell phone plans were offered that included Hong Kong, where Localphone and others have access numbers.
Have you tried setting CallbackAnswerDelay to a high value? If so, and the call is still getting answered in two rings, perhaps something other than the OBi AA is picking up. Set up the callback so it also works from one of your own phones and listen to what happens upon answer.
hitwao:
i am in Cameroon in Africa. I have an obihai 110. I have family in the US and have a google voice account that I have linked to a sipgate account. I have set up my account and now when i dial my google number it rings in my sipgate account that I have configured on an spa 942 and on the fixed line on the obihai SP1 that has the google account.
Now my fixed line attached to the obihai 110 is an unlimited plan and I can call other Camtel phones for free when i pay the fixed monthly charges.
I want the auto attendant to forward all my calls through the fixed line attached to my Obihai 110 and use the fixed line on the Obihai 110 to call my mobile Camtel lines which are also free lines.
I have google account and number configured on line one SP1 to call family in the US and for family in the US to call me in Cameroon at my Google number that rings on the fixed line on the Obihai and the SPA942.
I have rynga.com sip configured on SP2 for outgoing calls for cheap calls to other countries.
My fixed line is (237) 33351184 Camtel network in Cameroon.
I want my fixed line to forward all calls after a 10 seconds ring to my Camtel mobile phone and my wife's Camtel mobile phone simultaneously.
I do solicit directives on how to configure the Obihai to have this satisfaction.
Thanks.
Stewart:
Quote from: hitwao on November 19, 2011, 09:51:53 am
I want the auto attendant to forward all my calls through the fixed line attached to my Obihai 110 and use the fixed line on the Obihai 110 to call my mobile Camtel lines which are also free lines.
I want my fixed line to forward all calls after a 10 seconds ring to my Camtel mobile phone and my wife's Camtel mobile phone simultaneously.
I don't understand quite what you want to do, but I'll try to cover a few cases:
If you want to make calls from your mobiles via GV or Rynga, the callback setup discussed in this thread should work fine. If you have trouble, please provide a detailed description of the problem.
If you want calls received on your GV number to also ring your mobile, you can easily do that, but ringing two mobiles simultaneously would require one of the calls to be placed via a VoIP service, because your fixed line can only handle one call at a time. You could use one of your existing three accounts, or get a fourth one that offers less expensive calling to CM mobiles. Alternatively, you could ring the mobiles sequentially via the fixed line, but you would need an additional service to perform the sequencing (and to provide a message to the caller asking him to wait while his party is located).
If you want calls received on the fixed line to ring one or both mobiles, you would have to use a VoIP service for the forwarding, because the fixed line is already busy with the incoming call.
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