Quote from: rltrdc on May 24, 2014, 06:32:26 AM
Hi,
Is it possible to have one Obi adapter receive and make calls from multiple Google Voice numbers or would this require 1 Obi per number?
Would a specific model allow this?
Is there anyway to configure multiple phones to where you could call and receive from multiple numbers?
Example. I use a Google voice number and so does my roommate, we have high speed internet but get poor cell reception. We'd like to setup 4 phones through various parts of the house to ring when we get calls. It would be great if we knew which number they were calling so I would know if it was for me or not, as well as be able to dial out from our own number from any phone. Is this possible with one of your products or would it be a very advanced and expensive custom solution for Cisco or the like?
Here's one solution:
Hardware:
1) Broadband internet service with a wi-fi router.
2) An Obi100, which goes for around $40.
3) A cordless phone with 3 extension phones, maybe $60 to $100 or so. For debugging, any old standard phone.
Service:
A VOIP (voice over internet protocol) service provider. There are several of these available, with different pricing. This example uses
Voip.ms. I don't know which of the others include sub-accounts.
Here's how you set it up:
1. Buy the hardware and decide on a service provider (SP). Open an account, and 2 sub-accounts. One sub-account is yours, one is your roommate's.
2. Get 2 new phone numbers from the SP. One phone # will be used by each sub-account. Also, set your GV# as the caller ID in one sub-account, your roommate's in the other.
3. In the GV web page settings, forward your GV# to one of the numbers, your roommate's to the other. You can also forward a GV# to one or more cell phones.
4. Configure the Obi100. This can be done with the Obitalk "portal" (web site), or manually by entering the address of the Obi100 into your web browser. The Obi100 lets you configure two SP's, SP1 and SP2.
SP1 will contain your sub-account, and SP2 your roommate's (or vica versa).
5. By default, both SP1 and SP2 in the Obi100 with give the same telephone ring. You can configure one of them to give a different ring pattern (eg, two rings instead of one).
6. You can make the Obi100 send out the correct caller ID by forcing an outgoing call thru SP1 or SP2. One of these is the default, so either you or your roommate will need to precede your outgoing calls with "**1" or "**2" to get your own caller ID sent. You can change whether SP1 or SP2 is the default.
7. The Obi100 will also do speed dialing, and you can include whether you want to use SP1 or SP2 in each of the numbers you set up.
Good luck!
