Im trying to setup an Obi1062 only on wifi. I was able to complete a test dial calling **9 222-222-222. I then went to Add an Obi device on ObiTalk website following these steps:
Please pick up the telephone handset, and dial **5 3848
You may hang-up when you hear the automated response.
I don't hear an automated response. The phone displays a message on the screen saying the code was sent to OBI Talk, but nothing happens.
The website sits idle counting down saying it didn't connect.
Im in an office where I don't have access to a router so I can't connect to a router. Either Im doing something totally wrong or I can't use wifi for the first setup or some firewall at my office is blocking the action. I would think if the echo phone line worked my firewall wouldn't be blocking this.
Any advice?
Thank you.
Ok so I went home and connected the phone on my home wifi. The steps to connect completed.
So that means the following:
1. You can setup the phone using wifi
2. Something else was blocking the phone. Probably the firewall. Which is odd because I was still able to use the echo line.
I'm going to see if I bring the phone back to work now that it is setup and see if it works.
I will update.
Further updates:
I brought the phone back to my office connected to wifi and everything is working smoothly. I was even able to make edits on obitalk website that were sent to my phone successfully.
I saw a significant amount of posts where people had the same problem as me: where they couldn't get the device recognized on setup, but the echo dial worked. I still don't know 100% what caused it, but Im thinking something with the firewall preventing that communication. Maybe that first device communication is done in a different way than the other communication operations and can therefore get blocked.
Anyway if you have a problem with the obitalk finding your device try to go to an open wifi / internet source and setup the phone. After you have it set up connect back to your original source and the phone should work fine.