Newbie from Ireland looking for advise on forwarding

[mylesm]

Hello from Ireland and a big thanks to all the experts here its great to have this forum to help newbies like myself

I posted over on the set up forum that I was having a delay before the outbound phone call went through

It was suggested I make mods to my Digitmap and I did and it seems to be working great

I would like to get a handle on call-forwarding

I have an OBI-100 with SP1 set up with blueface a VOIP provider here in Ireland it works great

I only use this as my home phone and was hoping to forward calls to my cell phone when I am out

Do I need to set up a new VOIP on SP2 to send the forward call on to my cell

I tried to forward unconditional in my obi and entered my cell no but phone still rings I am thinking this is because SP1 cannot accept incoming call and forward it as well

As you can see I am new to this so any advise appreciated

I also will be asking how to block certain numbers but thats for later

thanks again

mylesm

[azrobert]

Get a free account at Sip2Sip or Callcentric.
Install a softphone on your cell.
Then forward the call like this:
sp1(your_acct@sip2sip.info;ui=$1)
or
sp1(1777xxxxxxx@in.callcentric.com;ui=$1)

ui=$1 will pass the CallerID

Instead of forwarding, you can have both phones ring simultaneously.
Now you don't have to turn forwarding on/off.

Voice Services -> SP1 Service -> X_InboundCallRoute:
ph, sp1(your_acct@sip2sip.info;ui=$1)


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[mylesm]

Get a free account at Sip2Sip or Callcentric.
Install a softphone on your cell.
Then forward the call like this:
sp1(your_acct@sip2sip.info;ui=$1)
or
sp1(1777xxxxxxx@in.callcentric.com;ui=$1)

ui=$1 will pass the CallerID

Instead of forwarding, you can have both phones ring simultaneously.
Now you don't have to turn forwarding on/off.

Thanks for that but if  i want to forward at certain times I thought it would be easier to just enable forwarding in the obi

but I was hoping to try to understand how it works

In Sp1 Calling features if i enable call forward and enter my cell number when i test it by calling home with my wifes cell the home phone rings and call is not forwarding to my cell

I must be not understanding how it works

thanks again
mylesm

Voice Services -> SP1 Service -> X_InboundCallRoute:
ph, sp1(your_acct@sip2sip.info;ui=$1)

[azrobert]

This is how I just tested call forwarding.

Voice Services -> SP1 service
CallForwardUnconditionalEnable: checked
CallForwardUnconditionalNumber: sp1(14801234567)


You can disable Call Forwarding by dialing *73
You can enable Call Forwarding by dialing *72

Your service provider must allow simultaneous inbound and outbound calls.

Check your call history to see if the call is forwarded.
Log directly into the OBi using the local interface.
Key the IP address of the OBi into a Web Browser.
Hit Enter
The UserID and default Password are both "admin".
Click Status on the left column.
Then click Call History.

You will NOT see the inbound CallerID on the phone receiving the forwarded call.
You will see your service providers CallerID.

[mylesm]

This is how I just tested call forwarding.

Voice Services -> SP1 service
CallForwardUnconditionalEnable: checked
CallForwardUnconditionalNumber: sp1(14801234567)


You can disable Call Forwarding by dialing *73
You can enable Call Forwarding by dialing *72

Your service provider must allow simultaneous inbound and outbound calls.

Thanks will try later

Check your call history to see if the call is forwarded.
Log directly into the OBi using the local interface.
Key the IP address of the OBi into a Web Browser.
Hit Enter
The UserID and default Password are both "admin".
Click Status on the left column.
Then click Call History.

You will NOT see the inbound CallerID on the phone receiving the forwarded call.
You will see your service providers CallerID.

[mylesm]

Thanks for that

But my Star codes are funny if I *72 it does not enable CF but if I *72# it works

and if I *73 it does not disable but if I *73# it disables but also the phone speaker says no call route available to complete your call but it does disable CF so the star codes are working that way but with weird messages which if someone else heard trying to set the forward would presume it had not worked

I can see it on the obi web interface changing tickbox but my wife would not see this she would just want to enter *code and it works

Also tried

Instead of forwarding, you can have both phones ring simultaneously.
Now you don't have to turn forwarding on/off.

Voice Services -> SP1 Service -> X_InboundCallRoute:
ph, sp1(your_acct@sip2sip.info;ui=$1)

I set up a free ac with sip2sip and I can call it from xlite softphone on my pc using myacct@sip2sip.info and it works fine my cell phone Softphone rings and shows cid from sip2sip but on obi if I

CallForwardUnconditionalNumber    sp1(myacct@sip2sip.info)

enable call forward checkbox

ring home from cellphone nothing happens cellphone just disconnects

uncheck call forward box and home phone rings normally

as i say my sip2sip seems to be ok it rings when i call it from another softphone

Thanks again for your help

mylesm

[azrobert]

Did you try this?
Voice Services -> SP1 Service -> X_InboundCallRoute:
ph,sp1(your_acct@sip2sip.info;ui=$1)

I have a typo in my original post.
There is a space after "ph,".
The above is the correct syntax.

I don't know why you are getting the strange results using the star codes.
The forwarding to Sip2Sip looks good.
I have a Sip2Sip account, but I'm not setup to test with it and don't feel like screwing with it.

I forwarded a call to a softphone on a PC like this:
sp1(anything@192.168.1.100:5060)

192.168.1.100 is the IP address of my computer.