Simultaneous Ring Feature (Alpha)

[fisamo]

Update:

I just did the two simple simulring tests that I had wanted confirmation on. With simulring set for my cell phone, I dialed my voipo number (not from the cell phone, of course), and my cell phone rang. Answering the cell phone, the call was connected properly.

I then turned the cell phone off and repeated the test. As I expected, my cell phone's VM picked up immediately.

Final test--I dialed my voipo line from my cell phone, and it rang a few times before I disconnected the call. (If it had routed the call to my cell phone, my cell phone VM would have picked up immediately.)

I don't know what, if anything, was changed with the simul ring feature since I reported the issue, but it seems to be working properly now. As I said in my latest ticket update, I'd like to test a little more this afternoon before closing the ticket out, though.

[caseydoug]

Then maybe I should try the simulring test that I was asking about recently: I would do the same thing, except set my cell phone for no-answer transfer back to my VOIPo line, so that the call will go to VOIPo voicemail instead of my cell phone voicemail.

In your third test, it looks like VOIPo recognizes the cell phone number as a simulring number, and therefore does not simulring to it. In my case, the CID would probably show the original calling number rather than the cell phone number, even though the cell phone is forwarding the call. In that case, VOIPo will probably NOT recognize the number as a simulring number, and will therefore ring the cell phone, which will forward it back to VOIPo, which will ring the cell phone, etc.

I don't know how difficult it is to get VOIPo to recognize that the forwarding phone is a simulring number, but it would be a very convenient feature for me. I prefer having all of my voicemail in one place.

[fisamo]

If Voipo did the 'confirm calls' feature, then all of your voicemail would end up in your Voipo voicemail box. If your cell phone's voicemail picked up the call, it would not be able to "press 1" so it would never receive the call. Once the voipo line recorded 4 or 5 rings (whichever your vmail is set for), voipo VM would take the call. This behavior is exactly how the (soon-to-be-defunct) CallVantage "Locate Me" feature works, and I'd like to retain this capability.