Bought a Raspberry pi to go with my OBi
giqcass:
I used the link provided by drgeoff. The initial flashing to the card gave me a little trouble but Piwriter finally got me going. I did have some issues with the Nertvittle part as well but it eventually worked. For me personally I couldn't get it working with direct keyboard and mouse attached. What worked was using SSH to control it over the network. I had some times when the process appeared to stop. In reality it was just going very slowly without any on screen input.
NoHomePhone:
Hello All,
I am new here, but I too have a Raspberry Pi and an Obi202. Not sure how I will go about this all but I am exploring the fascinating extra options. I like some of these ideas here. I am not quite sure what capabilities the Obi202 can offer versus the benefits of having a Raspberry Pi aiding it with Asterix/PBX.
I am setting this up for an older family member who was tired of paying full price for homephone and getting mostly robodialers and telemarketers, not to mention they have limited mobility and don't want to feel obligated to pick up the phone. I currently have the Obi hardwired to the Demark point in the electrical room for whole house distributed VoIP, it's perfect because they don't even know the difference and can use the their existing phones, and it has a battery backup as well, and they have their cell phones too. I am currently using all the boring default settings though so far. I know the Obi has the inboundcallroute and the autoattendant, but maybe I would be better off with the Raspberry Pi in the Mix. I am interested in a setup where it doesn't ring at all unless the caller meets acceptable rules.
Example:
Anonymous/Blocked/Hidden/1-8xx's/overseas/spoofed CID's
Would get directed to a audioclip "This number does not accept Blocked CallerIDs or Solicitations", and then if its a human have them press 5 to leave a voicemail.
I saw a great RasberryPi Obi project someone did a while ago but it never made it off kickstarter, their domain name was resold and they don't appear to be following up; The project never made it beyond the demo video (linked below). Banana-phone ( hxxp://http://www.raspberrypi.org/banana-phone/ )
@giqcass That Asteridex sounds really handy =), I am sure it would be useful around our home too. Is it like bluetooth or cellular voice dialing where you have to accentuate and pronounce everything odd ways or multiple times? =) A bit off topic but you might find Vinux or RaspberryVi distros useful, they are build to aid people with limited vision capabilities, Vinux has been handy around here.
MikeHObi:
Quote from: NoHomePhone on May 20, 2014, 06:40:40 pm
Hello All,
I am new here, but I too have a Raspberry Pi and an Obi202. Not sure how I will go about this all but I am exploring the fascinating extra options. I like some of these ideas here. I am not quite sure what capabilities the Obi202 can offer versus the benefits of having a Raspberry Pi aiding it with Asterix/PBX.
...
I am interested in a setup where it doesn't ring at all unless the caller meets acceptable rules.
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The only real benefit you gain with adding a RasberryPi to the obi you have is that you can add call treatments on your side rather than relying on the call treatments available from your voip service. If you add a FXO port adapter to the Obi then you can use it to bridge the POTS line and give it call treatments you would otherwise not be able to have.
If you are using voip right now, your voip provider is likely able to provide most of what you want. I know that both Anveo and Callcentric have resonable call treatments available.
NoHomePhone:
Hello MikeHObi,
We currently have a POTS/PSTN line, but will be cancelling it and going VOIP only, current provider is FreePhoneLine.ca but looking at anveo/callcentric as you suggested; Tthey appear to have what lacks with FPL; FPL doesn't seem to have any call screening process. It's basically a blocklist with no wildcard support or screening process that I can find in the webui. I can turn forwarding on and off or check voicemail, but what can you expect for $0 dollars a month. Currently only paid $50 to get a SIP account (lifetime usage across Canada, no monthly or connection fees), next step is pay $25 to port our landline number but it may go to another provider =). I am still fiddling and doing research. It sounds like the raspberry might be a bit overkill for a single voip line. I guess I'll see what fancy plugins asterix, and see if it's something I may toy with after I get a permanent line configured. Our main goal was to give the monthly bill the boot, since we mostly use cellphones, but the price difference is so minuet that the superior call filtering, and peace of mind is worth the few dollars a month. It looks like a lot of it can be done through the Obi, to a lesser degree. The last thing I need is to come home and find out "The nice man at microsoft called and fixed our computer" or something equally frustrating.
Thanks for the input and suggested Voip providers
~NPH
azrobert:
The OBi can do a lot of what you want. You can route 10 or 11 digit CID's to the Phone Port. 800 numbers and everything else can be routed to a different destination. Some examples of the other destination are:
A voicemail service, like GoogleVoice. All inbound calls can be routed to VM. You can change the VM message.
You can connect an answering machine on port #2 of your OBi202 and route these calls there.
Your Raspbx.
If you require a prompt like "Enter X to leave a message", you can 1st route these calls to the OBi AA. Then the AA can route the call to the Other Destination. You can change prompts, but the problem with the AA is you can't change the function.
1=Continue the call
2=Make a new call
3=Enter a callback number
You can change the prompt to " Enter 1 to leave a message", but if the caller mistakenly entered a 2 the OBi would expect the caller to enter a new number. You could setup the OBi to route the call to the desired destination no matter what the caller did.
I never setup prompts in Asterisk, but there are plenty of examples on the Web. It might be easier to set this up in your Raspbery Pi. I think Callcentric has this function.
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