Quote from: Themow on August 12, 2015, 08:37:10 AM
I have an obi110 running with a google voice number. I have a second landline number that I ported to tracfone. My plan is to port it to google voice and have both lines ring through my obi110. Can I port the second number from tracfone to the same google voice account as my first line?
Google Voice accounts can have one or two inbound numbers. One number can be obtained from Google, and another ported-in, or you can port in two numbers.
If you were to port in the Tracfone number, you would then have two inbound Google Voice numbers. Inbound calls to either number would ring all the same forwarding destinations, without any way to differentiate which inbound called number rings which forwarding destinations, nor which voicemail recording is played, based on the number called. By "forwarding destinations", I mean, Google Chat/XMPP/OBi, or Hangouts, or any PSTN forwarding phone numbers you've verified and added.
So, this is mainly useful when you have two numbers, and you don't care which one the caller dialed -- just ring the same forwarding destinations.
When you have two inbound GV numbers, you can swap which one is "primary" vs. "secondary". All this does is determine which number's caller ID is sent on outbound calls -- all inbound behavior remains the same.
If this doesn't work for you, then port the Tracfone to a separate GV account. Note, regarding forwarding destinations: do keep in mind that you cannot forward two different GV numbers to the same forwarding mobile phone number. A type = mobile number can only be used on one account. Type = home or type = work (non-mobile) can be listed as forwarding phones on a maximum of two different GV accounts.
Regarding OBi use:
Inbound calls follow the GV account setup, meaning, if you have two GV numbers on one account, and that account is configured on SP1, then all inbound calls will go to SP1. If you have two GV numbers, one on each of two GV accounts, and you define the second GV account as SP2, then you'll have two independently-operating numbers for both inbound and outbound calls.