All right here's my setup.
My goal was to have my business phone ring on my iPhone. I wanted the incoming calls to come in over voip as I don't have very good service inside my building. When I made an outgoing call I wanted my land line phone number and name to show up. I wasn't trying for free but I wanted it to be reasonable for me.
I tried Skype, Talkatone for google voice and the Obion app. All of them had severe limitations Skype had good quality but the interface didn't work for me. Also it was so locked in I couldn't even turn off the voicemail. Talkatone had a lot of promise but I just couldn't get good call quality. The obion app.... well you know the story there.
After some research I ended up with Bria for the iphone for $9.00 and
voip.ms as my provider. I chose
voip.ms because it was one of the obi110 preconfigured providers and they had a server near me. The rates were reasonable as well.
The obi110 is perfect for this combo. I set up sub accounts with extension numbers at
voip.ms. One for the obi and one for the iphone. The land line rings and hands it over to SP1 which in turn connects it to the iphone as an extension. This is important as calls between extensions are free. The caller id name and number are passed along as well. So all my incoming business calls are free.
I set up my sub account with the iphone to display my business phone number and I think Bria handles my company name because there's a field in setup for "display name". So when I make a call my caller id from my business shows up.
So here are my obi settings:
Under physical interfaces/ Line/ Line Port/Inboundcallroute I have {ph,SP1(101@yourserver.voip.ms)} 101 being my extension number for the iphone.
Under ITSP Profile A SIP I have X_SpoofCallerID checked.
On the
voip.ms sub account for the obi i have the caller id field blank which allows the obi to pass along the caller id from the inbound call.
So far this is working out really well except I still have to figure out the call waiting with Bria. When a new call comes in on the land line I get an audible notification on the iphone but there is no way to switch to the call. the only way I can answer it is to hang up with the other call.
If I get it figured out I edit the post.
Derek