BYOD Users: Obihai Devices

[robhouston]

Wow-----I've never heard of not using the Grandstream with house wiring. I'm doing it for both lines and haven't had problems with this. I'm using an Obi110 for Google Voice only. I suspect that there are many, many Voipo Grandstream users with their housewiring phones working correctly.

Out of curiousity, are you leaving your Grandstream connected while you use the Obi100?

[cowsr4eating]

From the help ticket: "Hello,

We have two phone ports on our adapter that are for phone jacks. You will have to physically connect each phone to a port on our device, that is how it was designed for use. Sorry, but house wiring simply is not supported with our device.

Kind regards, "

I was really surprised myself. Since I have three phones and I'd like to have them convieniently placed around the house this was not a useful "feature" for me. I did keep the grandstream connected for 2 days just to verify that the problem still existed with the grandstream and not with the obi-100. The only "feature" I see I am missing with the OBI-100 is when I pick up the phone now I don't get the stutter dialtone when I have messages pending. Since I have messages go to my smartphone/email, this is not an issue for me. Since the OBI-100 supported Google Voice, I did get a GV number and set that up as the 2nd device/line on the OBI-100. It works great and now I have two phone lines with two numbers. Dialing out is a little strange, I have to 1st dial **2 to have calls go out on the 2nd line (GV). I don't know that I'll get the wife trained on how to do that, but it works for me. I don't really have a need for the GV line/number right now but it has potential.

Back to your initial question ... since the OBI-100 is setup via the "softphone" mechanism, a person could have the OBI and the grandstream connected at the same time. I did for 2 days but there was no value for me when the grandstream ws having call connection issues.

[cowsr4eating]

Sorry ... double post.