User supplied caller ID information
SteveInWA:
Quote from: dbc39 on April 21, 2015, 01:56:23 pm
Hello,
I use the OBI 1032 IP phone with Google Voice. Google Voice allows the number of the caller to pass through to the phone, but not the name of the caller. Does OBi have any functionality to allow a user to supply a phone book that could be accessed when a call comes in to grab the name of the caller? If not, any chance that could be supplied in the future?
Thanks!
Hi:
It's odd that nobody actually answered your original question, probably because they don't own a 1032 phone. Yes, you can easily and quickly load your entire Google Contacts list to the phone. It uses the same secure access token method used by Obihai when first authenticating your Google account (that is, Obihai will ask your permission to access your Google Contacts by popping up a Google authentication window). After you give it permission, it'll transfer your contacts to the phone. Then, when you get an inbound call (or make an outbound call) from or to a contact, the phone will display their name.
Log onto the OBiTALK portal, click your 1032 phone's entry on the dashboard, and scroll down to the bottom of the settings page. Click "Import Google Contacts". This is documented in the admin guide:
http://www.obihai.com/docs/OBi1000AdminGuide.pdf
Ctrl-F to search the PDF for the words "phone book".
kccasey:
Any way to do this for other devices other than the IP1000 series phones? I have an Obi-202. I would love to upload my phone book, and/or better yet, be able to setup CIDNAM. I found http://www.opencnam.com/ which gives your the API to populate. Trying to figure out how to add the API link to the Obi device and/or service.
Any thoughts?
lrosenman:
I'm using a Raspberry Pi 2 and IncrediblePBX from http://www.pbxinaflash.com (free) and hairpinning the Google Voice calls through that to do the CNAM lookup on a bulkcnam.com account.
azrobert:
http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=3640.0
lrosenman:
If you want more details on my setup, feel free to ask. I also have a script setup that imports my entire Google Contacts list (at least those with phone numbers) into the Asterisk phonebook so I don't pay for looking up folks I know.
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