How does OBI110 work with an analog phone line and a voip line?

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callussun:
I am wondering if I can buy this for my mother-in-law to use in China. She has a local phone line and a broadband internet connection 24/7. I wonder if she uses OBI110, would she be able to receive calls from her google voice account and her local phone line number at the same time?

If she needs to make a call, is it convenient to switch between the local phone line and her google voice?

Since the device will be in China and I am in the US, would it be possible for me to update the device for her remotely?
Thanks!

jimates:
You can manage the device from the Obitalk portal. to do this the device has to be registered in your Obitalk account. Initial registration of the device with Obitalk requires placing a call from the device to the Obitalk service, so it is best to set it up before shipping it overseas.

One service is designated as the default line for outgoing calls (the LINE port is the factory default). Picking up the phone a dialing will place a call on the default line. To place a call on the other service you prepend the designation for that service
**1 for sp1
**2 for sp2
**8 for LINE
**9 for Obitalk service.
So if you leave the land line as the default and then want to place a call on sp1 you would dial, **1xxxxxxxxxx.

The Obi uses the Google Chat feature of Gmail for incoming and outgoing calls. Calls made to an associated Google Voice number can be routed to Google Chat. Google features are not suppose to work outside the US.

baxtr:
I have a related question. My Obi110 is connected to a landline (Obi line port -> wall jack, Obi phone port -> telephone). If I pickup the phone and hear a dial tone, How do I know that this is the land line?

On the configuration page for the Obi, the box, "Make This the Primary Line to Call Out" is checked for Google voice. Does this mean that SP1 is always the default for outgoing calls and I must press **8 to connect to the landline? I think I read somewhere in the instructions that if the line port is connected, the Obi will always default to the landline. Also, is it possible to generate a dial tone to discriminate between SP1 or landline on telephone pickup?

RonR:
Quote from: baxtr on April 23, 2011, 11:47:47 am

I have a related question. My Obi110 is connected to a landline (Obi line port -> wall jack, Obi phone port -> telephone). If I pickup the phone and hear a dial tone, How do I know that this is the land line?

On the configuration page for the Obi, the box, "Make This the Primary Line to Call Out" is checked for Google voice. Does this mean that SP1 is always the default for outgoing calls and I must press **8 to connect to the landline? I think I read somewhere in the instructions that if the line port is connected, the Obi will always default to the landline. Also, is it possible to generate a dial tone to discriminate between SP1 or landline on telephone pickup?

When you pick up the telphone connected to the OBi, the dialtone you hear is being generated by the OBi itself.

With no **n prefix, calls are sent by default to the port selected by PHONE Port -> PrimaryLine.

Dialing just a # will connect your telephone logically to the LINE Port and you will hear a landline dialtone and can continue dialing through the landline at that point.

When you dial **8 + number (or if the LINE Port is your PrimaryLine), the number will be processed by the OBi and then sent out the LINE Port.

You can modify your PHONE Port DigitMap as follows to get a second dialtone after dialing **n:

([1-9]x?*(Mpli)|[1-9]x?|911|**0|***|#|**1{t=di2}(Msp1)|
**2{t=di2}(Msp2)|**8{t=di2}(Mli)|**9{t=di2}(Mpp)|(Mpli))

This example gives the same second dialtone for **1, **2, **8, and **9, but you can choose others from this list:

bu = Busy Tone
cf = Call Forwarded Dial Tone
cm = Confirmation Tone
co = Conference Tone
cw1 – cw10 = Call Waiting Tone 1-10, respectively
di = Dial Tone
di2 = Second Dial Tone
fb = Fast Busy Tone
ho = Holding Tone
od = Outside Dial Tone
pr = Prompt Tone
rb = Ringback Tone
ro = Reorder Tone (same as fast busy)
si1 – si4 = SIT TONE 1 – 4, respectively
st = Stutter Tone

baxtr:
RonR,
Thanks for your lucid explanation. I found the PHONE Port DigitMap setting in OBi Expert Config. However, I have been reluctant to mess with any of the settings for fear of breaking the OBITALK configuration because of the warnings here,

http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=458.0

about two different data bases and also administering via the web page IP address. I can find no way to save my working configuration and restore it. Does such a function exist?

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