TIPS Awesome: Obihai OBi110 ATA with Google Voice

[atsak]

An additional note to anyone using the newest firmware. You need to change the default X_UserAgentName setting in ITSP Profile B to something other than the default in the new firmware. Something about the characters causes the OBi and PIAF 1755 not to play nice (causes 503 errors in the SIP communication, whatever that means). I just changed it to be the same as the old one, OBIHAI/OBi110-1-0-2.

 

[rossiv]

Another sidenote for the Obi devices:
I am currently in St Vincent and the Grenadines and my Obi with GV does not work here. It returns with a Registration Error so Google must block international connections.

I figured I would post this to save other people some time.

 

[wardmundy]

What you could do is leave one unit running in the United States and take another with you. As long as they're in the same Circle of Trust, you should be able to make GV calls from the foreign country thru the GV connection in the U.S.

 

[wardmundy]

http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=247.0

 

[wardmundy]

Obi 100 on sale for $39.99 with free shipping through June 19

http://nerd.bz/jqVNhu

 

[p2pvoice]

OBi with Google Voice Featured on ZDNet

OBi with Google Voice Featured on ZDNet: a cheapskate's guide to cheap VOIP http://post.ly/2IrfN

 

[wardmundy]

Now available for $44.41.

 

[steve54301]

I picked one of these up. But I still find myself missing the call control of having an asterisk box handle the number.

You can block a number or direct it to a specific phone or voicemail with google voice's web front end.

You create a contact, edit the google voice settings for that contact, and select "block phone" for example

Unknown to many, you can even match the CID text field to direct/block ANONYMOUS PRIVATE etc.. just enter those in the phone number contact field.

One thing that I am able to do on numbers answered by my own Asterisk box is pattern match caller id. Also known as caller id wildcarding.

You'd use the standard asterisk dial plan.
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Dialplan+Patterns

With this I was able to match a whole area code. So if I was getting a lot of bullcrap calls from an area code I could send all numbers in that area code to voicemail or block them.

Sadly google voice doesn't support this yet.

Either of these would be valid patterns for area code 920
_920
or
_920XXXXXXX

I tried entering these as contacts hoping they would work :-( Maybe someone else knows some other trick?

If not, I think this would be a great feature to support. I encourage anyone else who thinks so it, to leave it as a suggestion as I have.

http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/static.py?page=suggestions.cs

 

[PBXEHR]

The michigantelephone links at the top of this post are all no longer working.