SteveInWA and azrobert: Thanks to you prolific and knowledgeable posters, owning an Obi device is a little less stressful!
I have never used Expert Configuration having jumped to the web interface back in May because that what
voip.ms told me to do. The recent change to GV authorization nudged me to reconfigure my settings. Wouldn't it be great if we could just set up the Obi and forget about it?
Using Obitalk, I deleted GV from SP1, auto upgraded the firmware and reauthorized GV on SP1. Lucky me that my local SP2 and SP3 configurations were not overwritten in the process . Maybe because I disabled Firmware update and Obitalk provisioning right after reboot. I attempted to import my backup but it appeared not to be working because I didn't understand how it works. Later, when reading the
Expert Configuration intro thread, I figured out that I was supposed to
uncheck all the red exclamation parameters in order to use the imported configuration. Oops ... never did and my old setting somehow survived despite having the Obitalk boxes checked. Web interface shows all parameters set as before. Did the import work anyway? Were those parameters ever overwritten? Chalk it up to dumb luck.
Anway, I'm back using the web interface which I understand. Hopefully I won't have to touch my Obi settings until long after I forgot how it I did it last time...