Beware with firmware 2824 for OBi1xx

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ianobi:
Looks like time to submit a support ticket:

http://www.obihai.com/supportTicketForm2.php

Please post back here if the answers may be of use to others.

drgeoff:
Quote from: habibie on January 16, 2014, 12:35:43 pm

Unfortunately, the PSTN doesn't have a CID capability.

Care to put money on that?

habibie:
Quote from: drgeoff on January 17, 2014, 04:35:58 am

Quote from: habibie on January 16, 2014, 12:35:43 pm

Unfortunately, the PSTN doesn't have a CID capability.
Care to put money on that?
Sure. How much are you willing to bet? I subscribe to a plain PSTN line without a caller ID nor caller NAME.

lhm.:
A true POTS line. Back in the day callerid was an optional addon. I might join in that bet.  :P

drgeoff:
1.  habibie asserted that "the PSTN doesn't have a CID capability" and he therefore believed that "adding {(Mbl):} will not do any good".

Perhaps he could explain why the OBi110 has settings for CallerIDDetectMethod  and AnonymousCAllBlockEnable in its LINE port configuration page if no PSTN line has the capability of making those settings useful?

2.  While I don't claim that every PSTN line in the world has Caller ID, I do say that my PSTN line has always had Caller ID since I requested it more than 20 years ago (and for various reasons I've never paid any extra for it).  That it is present and works isn't a figment of my imagination - I have visual proof every time I look at my phone handset's display when a call comes in over my landline.

There may be reasons why adding {(Mb):} isn't doing any good in my case but "the PSTN doesn't have a CID capability" isn't one of them.

3.  If lhm wants to split hairs and argue that true POTS (the 'P' and 'O' being 'plain' and 'old') didn't have Caller ID, even as a capability, I'll counter that the term POTS does not occur in this thread before his posting.  :)

4.  Here in the UK, no PSTN line provided by British Telecom provides Caller NAME.  AFAIK this is also true of all other PSTN line providers in the UK.

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