BYOD Users: Obihai Devices

[cowsr4eating]

Biomesh, thanks for the tip. The MWIEnable works like a champ!

Greenlantern, not sure the price of a new Grandstream ATA, but the OBI100 can be had for less than $50 delivered from Amazon. You can connect two carriers to the single device, but it is a little confusing for my wife as both carriers/numbers ring the same phone. There is a distinctive ring feature but ... like I said it confuses her. So I ended up getting one OBI for Google Voice and one OBI for VOIPo to supply seperate phone lines accessible on our two-line phones. Maybe I had a bad Grandstream but since the policy was I could only connect two phones and they had to be physically connected to the Grandstream before I could get tech support, I opted to shelf the Grandstream for the OBI.

I was pleasantly surprised how easy the setup was and how well it works. With the MWIEnable feature selected, the OBI behaves just like the Grandstream, but more relaible for me. Hope this helps anyone having similar issues or wanting a supported config with more than two phones or using your house wiring.

I had been asked if I needed the Grandstream connected to use the OBI and the answer has been no thus far. I'll post back if that changes.

Cowsr4eating