Blocking Calls from 'Unknown'
Uncle_Wiggley:
Quote from: Taoman on August 01, 2014, 07:01:27 pm
Is there a reason you're not using the "Oleg method" as ianobi mentioned?
Yes, I tried it and it doesn't work for me. I assume that my provider, Future-Nine, doesn't support that.
Uncle_Wiggley:
Quote from: azrobert on August 01, 2014, 10:22:31 pm
There are 2 types of annoying calls. The first is scanner calls. These calls come over the internet using your public IP address and usually the standard port numbers 506x. You are blocking them based on a non-standard CallerID. The Oleg method allows only calls from your provider, therefore it blocks these scanner calls. Another method is to change the OBi port number (X_UserAgentPort) to a non-standard number.
The second type is telemarketing calls. These calls come thru your provider when they call your DID and cannot be blocked using the above techniques.
You said:
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Here is the call log entry: From 'Unavailable' SP2(4069982212)
I think "Unavailable" is the Caller Name and "4069982212" is the CallerID. This looks like a telemarketing call and you cannot block calls based on Caller Name. I don't answer calls I think are telemarketing. If they call 2 or 3 times without leaving a message I will add their CallerID to a blocking list. Some providers like Callcentric have a feature that blocks these calls.
I have changed the port number to a non-standard one.
I didn't know that you couldn't block based on Caller Name so now it makes sense. I wonder why that isn't a supported feature as it seems it would be very useful.
Dandy:
Here are the instructions:
Anonymous Call Block
Anonymous Call Block allows you to block calls from incoming callers when there is no identifying caller ID name or number.� Incoming calls will be presented with a busy signal.� To use Anonymous Call Block, from the phone attached to the OBi, dial *77.� To cancel Anonymous Call Block, from the phone attached to the OBi, dial *87.
Uncle_Wiggley:
Having trouble trying to block CIDs via User Defined Digit Map
X_InboundCallRoute:
{(?|x|xx|xxx|xxxx|xxxxx|xxxxxx|un@@.|Un@@.|anon@@.|Anon@@.|MTelemarketers):}, {ph}
User Defined Digit Map2:
Label: Telemarketers
DigitMap: (1234567890|0987654321)
If I call 1234567890, it rings the phone (ph), but should not.
What's wrong?
ianobi:
The problem is the label "Telemarketers" contains reserved characters. In a digit map you can use any combination of 0-9,*,#,+,-,A-Z,a-z, except m, M, s, S, x, X which have special meaning in the digit map syntax.
You can overcome this by enclosing the reserved characters in single apostrophes, but much easier to use a label with no reserved characters. How about:
Label: ban
DigitMap: (1234567890|0987654321)
X_InboundCallRoute:
{(?|x|xx|xxx|xxxx|xxxxx|xxxxxx|un@@.|Un@@.|anon@@.|Anon@@.|Mban):},{ph}
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