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IF YOUR OBI NEEDS UPDATES SEE HERE

See here for some good tutorials on setting up the Obi.

You can switch your current landline number into a Google Voice account to retain your phone number on a free Obi phone line.
To port your landline to GV:
  • Get ahold of an old Page Plus or Verizon cell phone that isn't being used. Port your existing landline to Page Plus for free through their website.
  • Fill out the port form and put in your landline number and the old PP cell phone's ESN or MEID number (from under the battery) and wait a couple of days for it to go through. You will know that the port is complete, when dialing your landline rings on the cell phone.
  • Once the account is active, buy $10 worth of minutes from PagePlus in order to receive the verification call from GV.
  • Now you can initiate the GV port. It's a good idea to open a new Gmail account. You can then setup all emails that come to that account (all the voicemails notifications) to be forwarded to your main Gmail account. Login to GV from the new account and port in your number. It will cost $20, and you will get an email when the port to GV is complete.
Using the above method will only have incoming Caller ID numbers, not names. If you want names as well, follow these steps:
  • Go to https://www.callcentric.com/, click Products, then click the yellow Get A Number button next to Free Phone Number.
  • Use the tool on the left to pick an area code, then order the number. It doesn’t have to be something memorable, because no one will ever have to dial it.
  • When it asks if you’re in US/Canada, either select Yes to use their E911 service, or No if you want to use something else. Callcentric setup is free, plus $1.50/mo if you want E911 services. See below for more details.
  • After you receive a confirmation email from Callcentric with your new account info, go to obitalk.com, and log into your Obi. Click SP2, scroll down to OBiTALK Compatible Service Providers, then click Next. Follow the prompts to link your Callcentric account. In the box that says Callcentric Number, enter the 1777 number you got in the email. Uncheck Primary Line for Outgoing Calls and 911.
  • Open Google Voice, go into Settings, and add a forwarding phone. Enter the real phone number you got in the email from Callcentric. Google will call it to confirm; it should ring on your Obi. Answer it and enter the code shown by GV.
  • Uncheck forward to Google Chat.
  • Log into your Callcentric account. Click Preferences. Under General, enable Caller ID with name (Inbound calls). (You can also change the maximum call duration, and unlist yourself from the directory).
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If you’re not using Callcentric, you have to set up SP3 in Obi settings to point to your E911 provider’s account.
E911 providers:
Callcentric$18/year ($1.50/mo) + $1.50 setup
Anveo$15/year
http://www.gv911.com/$12/year
http://www.bulkvs.com/e911.html$8.64/year ($0.72/mo)

If you want the SP2 to ring like the standard US ringtone:
go to obi expert config, then to voice service, select sp2, and change it to this:
X_ServProvProfile B
X_RingProfile   A
X_CodecProfile   A

You can add your CID http://www.listyourself.net/ListYourself/listing.jsp?ID=new
and check your CID http://who.scalling.com/411/

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #340 on: January 02, 2013, 06:46:23 PM »
The obi202 is the model that supports two different GV lines? Anyone have it?

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #341 on: January 02, 2013, 08:28:03 PM »
So if I have 2 gv accounts and I attach 2 telephones I have 2 separate lines and what else does the obi202 have extra that its worth 20 dollars

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #342 on: January 03, 2013, 12:31:16 PM »
I have an ADT system for home security which apparently works through phone line (and not VOIP). Before discovering this, I read the whole thread, decided to go with obi100, and then called ADT to ask if I'd have issues (and maybe I had free 911 through them). Anyone have any ideas like a cheap home phone that doesn't even need to make phone calls or did anyone else get stuck with something like this?

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #343 on: January 03, 2013, 07:29:52 PM »
I am switching to this product (dan I will use ur link) quick question I need 2lines I currently have a phone that takes two lines will the OBi 110 work for two lines or will I need to get the OBi 202?

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #344 on: January 03, 2013, 11:05:44 PM »
I have an ADT system for home security which apparently works through phone line (and not VOIP). Before discovering this, I read the whole thread, decided to go with obi100, and then called ADT to ask if I'd have issues (and maybe I had free 911 through them). Anyone have any ideas like a cheap home phone that doesn't even need to make phone calls or did anyone else get stuck with something like this?
the cell phone companies offer a cheap home phone plan for ~$20...its far from free though.

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #345 on: January 04, 2013, 01:57:23 AM »
ADT said they can run without phone line for $15/month additional, but I didn't think it was worth getting obi + paying 15/month

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Re: ombi and google voice
« Reply #346 on: January 09, 2013, 12:25:57 PM »
i am looking for the thread that discribes in great detail how to make a landline phone into a google voice phone number and then connect the Obi thing.............

Anybody please?

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« Reply #347 on: January 09, 2013, 10:30:16 PM »
i am looking for the thread that discribes in great detail how to make a landline phone into a google voice phone number and then connect the Obi thing.............

Anybody please?
It's here

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Re: Re: OBi 110
« Reply #351 on: January 11, 2013, 01:10:46 AM »
The obi202 is the model that supports two different GV lines? Anyone have it?
I have four of them, used it for a four line system, even figured out how to do line jumping, because you can't have two obi's with same gv account.

So if I have 2 gv accounts and I attach 2 telephones I have 2 separate lines and what else does the obi202 have extra that its worth 20 dollars
Wi-Fi, so you can connect the device to a Sprint mifi service for example. Or of you steal your neighbors internet....
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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #352 on: January 11, 2013, 01:53:51 AM »
Can you port your number from gv to a cable company if I ever want to change back

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #353 on: January 11, 2013, 02:12:04 AM »

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« Reply #354 on: January 11, 2013, 04:14:02 AM »
Thanks

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #355 on: January 11, 2013, 03:50:47 PM »
i got the obi202 set it up and it works fine so far but i have one problem when i call someone the caller id comes up the location and a number is there any way to get my name in the outgoing caller id

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Re: Re: OBi 110
« Reply #356 on: January 11, 2013, 04:45:36 PM »
i got the obi202 set it up and it works fine so far but i have one problem when i call someone the caller id comes up the location and a number is there any way to get my name in the outgoing caller id
read post 225 above.

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #357 on: January 12, 2013, 06:09:09 PM »
read post 225 above.
Two pointers, firstly the calls will not go to the vm if you setup call screening. Second, your PP phone will not ring until a test call has been made
 It is not possible to make a test call until the phone has been programmed. So the only way to know that the port went through, is when the landline stops working.
What about this? I asked about the caller I'd when I call someone but thank you either way for trying to help

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Re: Re: OBi 110
« Reply #358 on: January 12, 2013, 07:09:56 PM »
What about this?
I don't really understand what your question is, can you explain?

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #359 on: January 12, 2013, 07:15:14 PM »
When I call someone it normally shows my name and my phone number on there caller id my q is how do I set it up with the obi and gv bec now it only shows my phone number and city state