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Is This Doable - Call Forwarding from Obi With Google Voice As A Voice Mail Serv

Started by lostinqueens, February 10, 2017, 01:27:38 PM

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lostinqueens

Greetings,
I'm using an Obi 202 with Phone Power (sp1) and Google Voice (sp2). This is a great solution for me.

Here's what I want to do. When I'm not in my office, I want sp1 to forward calls to my cell phone (Verizon). If I don't answer my cell phone, I want Google Voice to take the message.

Currently, I have sp1 call forwarding to my cell (*72 + number) but I need to set Google Voice to "Do Not Disturb" so that the call forwarding from my cell phone to Google Voice will go in to voice mail. If I don't have Google Voice set to "Do Not Disturb", then my cell phone forwards the message back to my Obi and I get in to an endless loop.

Is there a way to do this without having to enable the "Do Not Disturb" feature on Google Voice? In other words, can I have sp1 forward to cell phone which then forwards to Google Voice without having the Obi sp2 ring?

Veazer

Are you on Android? There are a few apps that can change Google Voice forwarding based on location (within the GV settings, not the OBI). Be aware that the recent changes to the Google Voice web portal might have broken them or might break them in the future. You also might need to set your Google Voice web portal to the legacy version - this is just a guess.

I found this in the store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.techventus.locations

And I have personally used this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snrblabs.bishop&hl=en

Can't you just configure your Verizon phone as a forwarding number in GV and always forward to it, and skip forwarding in the OBI?