Hi Steve,
knowing now what i know, the answer is most likely NO, but i am going to take a risk and still ask you this question.
Is it possible to forward messages (somewhere in the settings in google voice) to landline home phone answering system. So, now, when i call from cell phone to landline (well technically i am calling to obitalk, but the call is forwarded to freebie number, consequently landline phone rings), machine answering system does not kick in. Because google voice kicks in, i tried to play with settings in the phone answering settings(like for answer to kick in after 4 beeps vs.6), still does not help. I do realize the answer is not but i do hope so.
The background is i have setup obi talk for my parents, the are over 75 years old, while everything else at this point is great, they use the phone like they would via telephone company services, they don't even know the difference, and they are happy. The reason why i did it to help my parents, they have relatives in Russia, Germany, Belarus and Israel, and i can't denie them pleasure of calling their first/second blood relatives. They don't have much money, pension is not that big, so my sister and i have been helping them with payments. Those international calls would be sometimes $500 -$600 a month, of course they are not aware of that, i had setup on my credit card with auto pay with century link. This obi cut my expenses monthly to ~$30 monthly, which is quiet a savings which i can re-route to a different needs for them. Currently i switch century link to basic (~$40 monthly) until i complete phone number transfer, after which i cancel services all together. In fact the phone is not plugged in to telephone jack as is it plugged in to obitalk device.
I can certainly try explaining them to use google voice, but given that they are over 75, not sure how well they can adopt, so before i do that i just wanted to check by you if it is feasible somewhere in coolge voice settings to make so landline message would kick in. That is the way they are used to and know.
thank you
alex