We get our internet via DSL. While we don't have any calling packages on the line, we can place outbound 911 calls on this POTS landline.
I'm interested in getting an OBI and configuring it to primarily place & receive calls using GV. Rather than purchase E911 service when I already can place 911 calls via the landline, would it be possible to connect the landline to the port 2 of an OBI202 and configure the OBI to route all 911 calls placed via home phones on port 1 to port 2? How would I configure the OBI to do this?
Connecting a POTS line to any port labelled 'PHONE' on an OBi device definitely will not work (and no amount of configuration changes can change that) and risks permanently damaging the OBi.
Except for the OBi110, no other OBi1xx or OBi2xx or Obi3xx device can connect unaided to a POTS line. The OBiLINE adaptor is specifically intended for use with OBi 2xx and Obi3xx devices. However there are many posters who believe it does not work as well as the OBi110.
I agree that the 110 is the best solution for you.
This unit was designed to sit between your phone and the phone company. You could siphon some or most calls off to a voip provider yet still allow 911 calls and other combinations of local calls to still go out through the phone company.
In your case you would use the box to pass 911 to the phone line and have everything else go to the voip provider of your choice.
If you call 911 and they call you back, those calls come in through the phone line to your phone. Voip calls from others also come into your phone.
Early models of the 110 had a physical relay in them so that in the case of a power outage at your house, the 110 would look like a hardwired connection to the local phone line, ie transparent.
Later models eliminated the relay and leave you with a less than dsireable solution of having to remove the 110 and plug the phone into the phone line during a power outage. (I posted a diagram here years ago showing one solution that people could build to duplicate the "power out/ connect the phone to the phone line" issue.
Hi Lavarock7
I somehow missed that diagram please re post it on this thread if you can.
Thanks!
It was near the end of this thread:
http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=2872.0
Thanks!