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OBi setup

Started by azKennett, April 29, 2013, 07:21:01 PM

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azKennett

Can I use Obi and have a couple of wireless phones that would work for a given phone number and another couple of phones work for a different phone number (two different Google Voice phone numbers (separate accounts).

Or, same as above but have phones for one Google Voice number and a computer for a different GV number.

hwittenb

Wireless handsets work off of their respective base unit(s).  You can have multiple handsets for a single base unit.  It's the base unit that you need to focus on.

Today's wireless phone base units are cable attached to a (phone) jack on the OBi adapter.  The base unit usually supports a single phone line attachment but you can purchase a multi-line base unit if you wish.  Multi-line base units would have at least two cable attachments to OBi adapter(s).

The OBi100 and OBi110 support a single phone unit attachment.  The OBi202 will support two different phone unit attachments.

For the incoming lines, you can setup two separate GoogleVoice accounts for incoming numbers on any of the OBi adapters, but to have two separate phone attachments you would need the OBi202.  You can configure the incoming GV numbers to ring whatever phone attachments are available.

A computer could be setup to receive phone calls over GoogleChat, but that would be independant of the OBi adapter.