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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 #500 on: October 03, 2013, 04:39:59 PM »
Set up the whole obi thingie... for some reason whenever I get a call to my google voice # my reg cell rings as well. Anybody have this issue?
Go to google.com/voice and go to settings and then the phones tab and deselect your cell phone.

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #501 on: October 04, 2013, 03:11:59 AM »
Go to google.com/voice and go to settings and then the phones tab and deselect your cell phone.

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #502 on: October 04, 2013, 04:32:07 AM »
Sorry, I have packet8, not vonage. Is everything the same?  Any ideas?
bump...

can anyone help me with porting my packet8 to gv? My obi is already setup with gv but I want to port my packet8 and I am not in the USA now. TIA!
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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #503 on: October 31, 2013, 07:57:14 PM »
All good things come to an end.
This will no longer work with Google voice begining in a half a year.
http://blog.obihai.com/2013/10/important-message-about-google-voice.html

Great while it lasted.

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #504 on: October 31, 2013, 07:59:48 PM »
All good things come to an end.
This will no longer work with Google voice beging in a half a year.
http://blog.obihai.com/2013/10/important-message-about-google-voice.html

Great while it lasted.
:( I sure hope there will be some work around

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #505 on: October 31, 2013, 11:17:25 PM »
Does not look like there will be a work around for Google voice though maybe a different company will pop up. I use ooma.

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #506 on: November 03, 2013, 05:47:48 PM »
Does not look like there will be a work around for Google voice though maybe a different company will pop up. I use ooma.

Can you post rates and a link maybe?
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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #507 on: November 03, 2013, 05:49:48 PM »
Does not look like there will be a work around for Google voice though maybe a different company will pop up. I use ooma.
I believe one has  already been posted in the other thread
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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #508 on: November 03, 2013, 05:59:28 PM »
I believe one has  already been posted in the other thread

Do you mean on the main site? http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/35948

Where is the workaround? I guess you mean another link in the forums. I could not find it. Can you post a link? TIA!
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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #509 on: November 03, 2013, 06:47:29 PM »
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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #510 on: December 19, 2013, 05:54:08 PM »
My GV on OBI 110 is not ringing (incoming), outgoing works fine. I updated the firmware and unplugged the obi etc. still not ringing. Didn't change any of the GV settings, it has been working fine for months.

Solutions?


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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #511 on: December 20, 2013, 02:10:55 AM »
Did you change any gv settings lately?
Make sure it's still set to ring to gchat
Are you logged in elsewhere?
Also are you using solely gv or did you combine with another service?

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #512 on: December 20, 2013, 07:45:39 AM »
Is there a solution to the upcoming GV changes?
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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #513 on: December 20, 2013, 08:35:32 AM »
Did you change any gv settings lately?
Make sure it's still set to ring to gchat
Are you logged in elsewhere?
Also are you using solely gv or did you combine with another service?
didn't change anything recently but yes, I am using calcentric for incoming caller I'd. I'll check that its working. Ty

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #514 on: December 20, 2013, 08:59:03 AM »
Just checked, my GV is set to forward to my free calcentric number (not google chat), which worked fine till yesterday. Callcentric account looks fine.

ETA when switching to Google chat it rings fine, somethings wrong with the callcentric free number. Anyone els having issues?
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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #515 on: December 20, 2013, 11:18:19 AM »
Just checked, my GV is set to forward to my free calcentric number (not google chat), which worked fine till yesterday. Callcentric account looks fine.

ETA when switching to Google chat it rings fine, somethings wrong with the callcentric free number. Anyone els having issues?
I'm using call centric too
Try dialing your call centric number directly

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #516 on: December 23, 2013, 01:48:55 PM »
I just set up my OBi with callcentric mainly for the full caller ID (name & number) people have been talking about here (and the E911 is also a good thing, which I hope to never have to use), and after setting it up (which was $3, not $1.50), and setting Google to forward my GV number to my Callcentic number i'm still getting the limited Called ID thats just displaying number.

Now that I think about it, I don't know how it could work otherwise, since GV doesn't support full CID, how can a number they forward the call to support full CID? Please correct which part I'm getting wrong.

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #517 on: December 23, 2013, 02:35:32 PM »
Update:
Had to change the settings for CallCentric which by default disable the CNAM feature under Preferences > Caller ID with name (Inbound calls): > Enable.
(Still don't understand how this work, but that doesn't seem to stop it from working ...;))

Only thing I'm having trouble with now, is getting a Voicemail notification tone when new voicemail comes, although this option is checked on my OBi, I'm not getting the voicemail tone.

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #518 on: December 23, 2013, 05:24:40 PM »
Update:
Had to change the settings for CallCentric which by default disable the CNAM feature under Preferences > Caller ID with name (Inbound calls): > Enable.
(Still don't understand how this work, but that doesn't seem to stop it from working ...;))

Only thing I'm having trouble with now, is getting a Voicemail notification tone when new voicemail comes, although this option is checked on my OBi, I'm not getting the voicemail tone.
I just set up my OBi with callcentric mainly for the full caller ID (name & number) people have been talking about here (and the E911 is also a good thing, which I hope to never have to use), and after setting it up (which was $3, not $1.50), and setting Google to forward my GV number to my Callcentic number i'm still getting the limited Called ID thats just displaying number.

Now that I think about it, I don't know how it could work otherwise, since GV doesn't support full CID, how can a number they forward the call to support full CID? Please correct which part I'm getting wrong.
Caller ID comes from your telco looking up the number and returning a name. GV passes the number to cc which is all it needs.
Anybody using the GV cc combo having some weird caller id issues lately?

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Re: OBi 110
« Reply #519 on: December 23, 2013, 07:16:37 PM »
Caller ID comes from your telco looking up the number and returning a name. GV passes the number to cc which is all it needs.
Anybody using the GV cc combo having some weird caller id issues lately?
Thanks for clarifying.
Now the VM tones are working as well, just rebooted the OBi. All this for GV support which is being discontinued in May..