Vestalink ringing both lines on Obi202
SteveInWA:
Quote from: drgeoff on March 17, 2014, 05:08:35 am
Quote from: simpleAnswers on March 17, 2014, 02:56:43 am
Quote from: Lavarock7 on March 15, 2014, 07:48:38 pm
On an Obi202 the port for Phone 1 has 4 wires and the port for Phone 2 has 2 wires. This allows Phone 1 to be a 2 line phone. Check to see if you have a 2 wire telephone cord yto use for that phone and whether that solves the problem.
Say what? That is news to me.
So how could that work in practice? Would the 2 line phone use PH1. I guess I'm trying to figure out how to take advantage of that feature.
If I plugged in 2 line phone into that PH1 socket, could I have 2 simultaneous calls at the same time?
The OBi202 is perfectly capable of having two simultaneous calls using PHONE1 and PHONE2. You can do that with separate phones plugged into the two sockets. I've never seen a US two-line phone but I assume it is little more than an ordinary phone with a switch which connects to either line. If it only has one handset, I cannot imagine how it can support two simultaneous calls. (My definition of 'two simultaneous calls' does not include a 3-way call nor switching between two calls, conversing on one while the other is on hold.)
One reason the OBi202's socket labelled PHONE1 is wired up the way it is, is to support a two-line phone where you use the single handset to make or receive a call on either 'line'. (One at a time.)
It is also possible that if the house wiring uses both pairs in 4-wire cabling to support two lines throughout the house that this makes a simpler/neater connection to the OBi202.
I should have guessed that someone named "Geoff" is likely in the UK, not the USA? :-)
Anyhow, the 2-line jack wiring configuration is a standard, called RJ-14.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_jack
Line one is the inner pair, and line two is the next-outer pair, and the two outer-most pins are generally unused today.
Two-line telephone sets for the US market generally include one RJ-14-wired jack to use with a combined two-line cord, plus a second, RJ-11 jack, with the only connection being intended for line two on the INNER pair. This provides a sort of universal wiring solution: if you have two separate single-line cords, each supporting a different phone number, then plug one into each jack. If you have a two-line cord, you plug it into the L1+L2 RJ-14 jack. Of course, there are also splitters and combiners available from Radio Shack or other sellers.
Tuan:
I tried changing the callforwardonbusynumber to ph2 through obitalk's expert config, but that didn't work for me either like JohnH.
I had to access the Obi directly from my PC's browser 192.168.1.xx where xx is assigned to my Obi202. This method worked, so accessing the Obi directly is the key. Most other features, using Obitalk's expert configuration is fine. I'm not sure why this feature requires direct access.
btw, I have voip.ms
Quote from: giqcass on March 16, 2014, 05:41:34 pm
There are four ways to control an Obi.
1)Log in to the Obi itself.
2)Through a phone connected directly to the Obi.
3)Using a provisioning file.
4)SIP I don't know much about this method but Obi can make at least some changes to your obit with special sip messages sent over the Obitalk network.
Option 3 is the primary way Obihai and Vestalink use to control your Obi. When you used the Vestalink auto setup Vestalink changed the server your obi looks at to find updated provisioning files. Since your Obi was no longer looking at Obihai servers it could no longer find changes you made via the Obihai web control panel. In addition because it was looking at the Vestalink servers for updated provisioning files it would overwrite any changes you made to your obi locally with settings that it found on the vestalink servers. The change I told you to make told the Obi to stop looking for provisioning files on the Vestalink server.
simpleAnswers:
Quote from: Tuan on May 08, 2014, 02:27:47 pm
I tried changing the callforwardonbusynumber to ph2 through obitalk's expert config, but that didn't work for me either like JohnH.
I had to access the Obi directly from my PC's browser 192.168.1.xx where xx is assigned to my Obi202. This method worked, so accessing the Obi directly is the key. Most other features, using Obitalk's expert configuration is fine. I'm not sure why this feature requires direct access.
So what did you do when you access the Obi directly. Did you make the same callforwardonbusy change or did you do something different to get it to work.
Last I read here was that vestalink did not support this feature in which an Obi202 would call Ph2 if Ph1 was already in use. Are you saying that it works on Vestalink??
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