GV VM & Obi110 assistance requested, please ?!
vtsnaab:
Thank You Shale:
Quote from: Shale on October 06, 2013, 08:16:51 pm
You could answer the call with an answer machine, but I think the deal is that you are using your phone port for your other line. So you would need another OBi to give you another port. Alternatively, you could transfer the call in 20 seconds to something that will answer immediately. If the call is not answered within 25 seconds, it goes to GV voicemail.
The other thing to consider is to use this method for your anonymous outgoing calls: https://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=5451.0
You will like that one.
I really do not wish to block outgoing CID and I'm quite happy to let folks see my 'public' number.
As said - I can easily preface check-in calls to GV from here with **1 and get right in.
That is not the problem I am concerned with at all.
What I need is access from 'foreign' phones, like when calling from behind a PBX, from a pay phone, or a friend's house on their landline.
I have even set CC's VM answering to it's lowest (5 seconds) and GV VM still grabs my calls !!!
Frankly - this very minute I would port my 'private' GV number over to CallCentric in a heartbeat IF the fees were not a problem - their service seems very good and their support is great too.
I am unemployed and broke from long-term illness and simply cannot spend $ that I do not have.
Thank you for such a thoughtful reply intended in such a helpful way - it is greatly appreciated !!!
Lavarock7 - thank you for pitching in as well.
I wish to solve my calling in problem and not get involved in security-centered stuff; I am a near perfect nobody, and just want to be able to get any VMs that arrive if/when I am not at home.
It is really that simple.
(And yes - I do have a pay-by-minute cellular that I really cannot afford and it barely works here in Vermont. It is kept for emergency use only.)
vtsnaab:
I have looked carefully at my settings in my desire to further defeat GV VM from 'stealing' incoming calls which I miss answering, and see these settings:
This would help avoid the GV log-in snafu by allowing me to re-route calls at home to my CallCentric number which I can easily log in to.
Would anyone instruct me on the usage of these settings for that, please ??
Thanks.
dircom:
Ok, I called one of my GV #'s from my wife's phone... it asked me to put in the pin
then got an error message that said "the # I was calling from was not associated with the GV acct",
and asked me to enter one of the forwarding numbers. I entered the CC # it is forwarded to... and got GV voicemail
I don't know why GV is picking up before CC, but in the meantime, you can access your messages via phone
or the internet
vtsnaab:
Perhaps I have not been clear enough ???!
I have been using GV and an Obi110 for YEARS now - I know how to use GV, thank you.
CallCentric *is* already set up to take my GV incoming calls, thanks.
Trouble is GV is *still* grabbing those calls before CC's VM can grab them.
I have tested extensively and even CC's support folks affirm it is a GV problem after I tried ALL what they told me to do to fix this.
*IF* the $$$ for an answering machine was no trouble - instead I'd simply spend it to port that GV number over to CC and this query would become moot.
I do not have an answering machine - nor has illness left me with extra $$$ - so I need to solve this with what is FREE and at hand.
Please see all the former posts in this thread before RE-posting suggestions already made by others.
Part of my solution looks like it could be had in the settings shown in my reply #6, above; but I do not know the correct ways to use those settings.
Thanks.
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