Thank You Shale:
Quote from: Shale on October 06, 2013, 08:16:51 PM
You could answer the call with an answer machine, but I think the deal is that you are using your phone port for your other line. So you would need another OBi to give you another port. Alternatively, you could transfer the call in 20 seconds to something that will answer immediately. If the call is not answered within 25 seconds, it goes to GV voicemail.
The other thing to consider is to use this method for your anonymous outgoing calls: https://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=5451.0
You will like that one.
I really do not wish to block outgoing CID and I'm quite happy to let folks see my 'public' number.
As said - I can easily preface check-in calls to GV
from here with **1 and get right in.
That is not the problem I am concerned with at all.
What I need is access from 'foreign' phones, like when calling from behind a PBX, from a pay phone, or a friend's house on their landline.
I have even set CC's VM answering to it's lowest (5 seconds) and GV VM still grabs my calls !!!
Frankly - this very minute I would port my 'private' GV number over to CallCentric in a heartbeat IF the fees were not a problem - their service seems very good and their support is great too.
I am unemployed and broke from long-term illness and simply cannot spend $ that I do not have.
Thank you for such a thoughtful reply intended in such a helpful way - it is greatly appreciated !!!
Lavarock7 - thank you for pitching in as well.
I wish to solve my calling in problem and not get involved in security-centered stuff; I am a near perfect nobody, and just want to be able to get any VMs that arrive if/when I am not at home.
It is really that simple.
(And yes - I do have a pay-by-minute cellular that I really cannot afford and it barely works here in Vermont. It is kept for emergency use only.)