can't use multiple phone numbers on phone port 2 like phone port 1 on obi202
Shale:
Quote from: drgeoff on May 12, 2014, 11:27:29 am
I wonder if he is using 2-line phones. The port 1 jack supports those. Port 2 jack does not.
Oooh... good point on the jack interaction. If he unplugs Phone 1, does Phone 2 work better?
evergreen:
Quote from: drgeoff on May 12, 2014, 11:27:29 am
No, the hardware is OK as evergreen is able to make calls from phone port 2 on one of his two numbers.
I wonder if he is using 2-line phones. The port 1 jack supports those. Port 2 jack does not.
Thank you very much! You are correct. I should have mentioned that I was using a 2-line phone. Is there a way around it so that I can have port 2 work the way port 1 does? Thanks again for clarifying!
Shale:
You can do either of these:
1. Hook your 2-line phone to the Phone-1 jack only using a 4-wire cord; both lines are on that cord. Phone 1 jack has both lines on it.
2. Hook one phone to phone line 1 jack with a 2-wire phone cord, and hook another phone to Phone 2 jack with either a 2- or 4-wire cord. Use of the 2-wire cord to the Phone-1 jack keeps you from hooking that phone to Line 2.
drgeoff:
Quote from: evergreen on May 12, 2014, 08:58:05 pm
Quote from: drgeoff on May 12, 2014, 11:27:29 am
No, the hardware is OK as evergreen is able to make calls from phone port 2 on one of his two numbers.
I wonder if he is using 2-line phones. The port 1 jack supports those. Port 2 jack does not.
Thank you very much! You are correct. I should have mentioned that I was using a 2-line phone. Is there a way around it so that I can have port 2 work the way port 1 does? Thanks again for clarifying!
No. The port 2 jack has only the phone 2 wiring on it so it cannot work exactly the same as the port 1 jack which has both. No amount of software config can change that to allow a 2-line phone to access both your SPs using the phone's Line1,2 buttons.
The simplest solution is to get a "doubler" which plugs in PHONE socket 1 and gives you two sockets both of which have all four wires straight connected to its plug. Plug your two 2-line phones into those sockets.
Alternatively the OBi can be configured such that all incoming calls will ring both PHONE1 and PHONE2 jacks. And you can use **1 or **2 prefixes on dialled numbers to make a call go out to a desired SP.
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