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Polycom OBi200 VoIP Telephone Adapter with Google Voice & SIP (Formerly OBIHAI OBi200) $49.99

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Model: Polycom OBi200 VoIP Telephone Adapter with Google Voice & SIP (Formerly OBIHAI OBi200)

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Tweak42
09-18-2020 at 11:41 AM.
09-18-2020 at 11:41 AM.
Bought a Obi200 seven years ago for $40 and have been saving the $33+ a month for a landline since. This an decent price, however the real savings is not paying for a landline.

If going with free google voice service there is no caller id name and no 911 service. You can pay nominal fee for 3rd party service to add 911, or just pay for a voip service that includes it.
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FrozenBeer
09-18-2020 at 11:51 AM.
09-18-2020 at 11:51 AM.
I bought this one from B&H Photo during the $34.99 in November 2017. (saw the deal on Slickdeals)

After I installed it, it worked flawlessly. Still working fine as of right now.
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dpecs
09-18-2020 at 11:58 AM.
09-18-2020 at 11:58 AM.
Quote from Tweak42 :
Bought a Obi200 seven years ago for $40 and have been saving the $33+ a month for a landline since. This an decent price, however the real savings is not paying for a landline.

If going with free google voice service there is no caller id name and no 911 service. You can pay nominal fee for 3rd party service to add 911, or just pay for a voip service that includes it.
Does it show up on the Phone LCD as blank or the telephone# repeated? So you'd need to add it to the phones address book to show the name?
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Tweak42
09-18-2020 at 12:13 PM.
09-18-2020 at 12:13 PM.
Quote from dpecs :
Does it show up on the Phone LCD as blank or the telephone# repeated? So you'd need to add it to the phones address book to show the name?
The number will show up unless it's hidden by the caller. If your phone handset supports address book, that name will show up or override the callers id name.

Google Voice supports diverting hidden number calls straight to voicemail so I made mine set to a recording that opens with the disconnected number tones (throws off robocalls), followed by a message saying to unhide their caller id to ring through or leave a message. Voice messages are then translated to text and emailed to set list of recipients. Unanswered rings are played our normal greeting to leave a message.

I will add at GV spam blocking is pretty good, but we still occasionally get those local neighborhood area prefix calls, and sometimes a mass of out of area calls in short time followed by weeks of nothing.
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Kermee
09-18-2020 at 12:33 PM.
09-18-2020 at 12:33 PM.
Got this for my parents about a month before COVID went balls to the walls to cut their Centurylink POTS line which was almost $60 USD/month. Did the Centurylink->T-Mobile->Google Voice "Dance" to get their number ported to Google Voice.

Needed E911 and CID Name so $2.50/month from Callcentric. That's the only recurring cost for their line. It works beautifully and completely transparent to them other than they can receive "text" messages to their landline phone and GV handles their VML which they love since they now get transcriptions of the VML to their email.

Then after COVID hit, finding the Obi200 in-stock at even "reasonable" prices has been futile.

EDIT: GV doesn't set the CID outbound "name" when people dial out. So I had TMobile update the CNAM databases used by US telcos with my parents' name before finally porting it to GV. To this day, the correct name shows up on landline POTS with POTS phones with CID support.
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dpecs
09-18-2020 at 01:08 PM.
09-18-2020 at 01:08 PM.
Quote from Tweak42 :
The number will show up unless it's hidden by the caller. If your phone handset supports address book, that name will show up or override the callers id name.

Google Voice supports diverting hidden number calls straight to voicemail so I made mine set to a recording that opens with the disconnected number tones (throws off robocalls), followed by a message saying to unhide their caller id to ring through or leave a message. Voice messages are then translated to text and emailed to set list of recipients. Unanswered rings are played our normal greeting to leave a message.

I will add at GV spam blocking is pretty good, but we still occasionally get those local neighborhood area prefix calls, and sometimes a mass of out of area calls in short time followed by weeks of nothing.
Thanks for the helpful information and how you use it. I've been with GV since grandcentral days. But don't have it connected to a voip device.
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dpecs
09-18-2020 at 01:15 PM.
09-18-2020 at 01:15 PM.
Quote from Kermee :
Got this for my parents about a month before COVID went balls to the walls to cut their Centurylink POTS line which was almost $60 USD/month. Did the Centurylink->T-Mobile->Google Voice "Dance" to get their number ported to Google Voice.

Needed E911 and CID Name so $2.50/month from Callcentric. That's the only recurring cost for their line. It works beautifully and completely transparent to them other than they can receive "text" messages to their landline phone and GV handles their VML which they love since they now get transcriptions of the VML to their email.

Then after COVID hit, finding the Obi200 in-stock at even "reasonable" prices has been futile.

EDIT: GV doesn't set the CID outbound "name" when people dial out. So I had TMobile update the CNAM databases used by US telcos with my parents' name before finally porting it to GV. To this day, the correct name shows up on landline POTS with POTS phones with CID support.
Very good info about the data base. Can any carrier(Centurylink/landline) do that or just cell phone?
Also were they on DSL with Centutrylink? How was it getting the landline separated from the plan?
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waveofdestiny
09-18-2020 at 01:24 PM.
09-18-2020 at 01:24 PM.
Quote from Tweak42 :
If going with free google voice service there is no caller id name and no 911 service. You can pay nominal fee for 3rd party service to add 911, or just pay for a voip service that includes it.
For 911 just keep an old cell phone around. No SIM or service required. Buy one of those cheap non-smart tracphones when it goes on sale, they'll keep for up to like 20 days without having to ever even charge them on standby.
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fkhan11
09-18-2020 at 01:51 PM.
09-18-2020 at 01:51 PM.
Already sold out
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haggler
09-18-2020 at 02:45 PM.
09-18-2020 at 02:45 PM.
I picked up a used but new in box obi110 for around 15 on ebay. It doesn't work for google voice, but works great with VOIP providers. Replaced my parents rarely used ATT POTS line that skyrocketed to 65 a month.

Outbound: Callcentric 120 min +e911 for $2 a month
Inbound: VOIP.ms .009 a minute + .85 a month.

One important reason to have e911 especially for the elderly is on a voip line the e911 address is communicated directly to the dispatcher compared to cell phones. With cell phones, there are many incompatibilities and problems in that may delay automatically transmitting the direct emergency address.
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DontTaxBeer
09-18-2020 at 03:07 PM.
09-18-2020 at 03:07 PM.
wow, cant believe this never went down in price.
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Kermee
09-18-2020 at 03:21 PM.
09-18-2020 at 03:21 PM.
Quote from dpecs :
Very good info about the data base. Can any carrier(Centurylink/landline) do that or just cell phone?
Also were they on DSL with Centutrylink? How was it getting the landline separated from the plan?
I believe any carrier that supports CNAM, landline or mobile, as long as they're currently the "owner" of the number, can update the name in the CNAM databases. I'm not sure if CenturyLink's policy allows you to change the outgoing CID CNAM on a residential POTS line other than the name on the account. So YMMV with Centurylink.

It was easiest for me to do at T-Mobile because once the # was owned by them after I ported it out, I just called up support and told them to update the name tied to the phone number (Note: Although, I think you can do this online in your T-Mobile account).

They didn't have Internet/DSL with Centurylink, but they did have a distinctive ring # tied to the account for incoming faxes to a fax machine which supported distinctive ring. They no longer use the fax machine, but it caused problems with porting to T-Mobile because Centurylink kept on stating it was an "incomplete port" until we figured out it was the fax # that was holding up a successful port. Had to cancel distinctive ring and retry, and in a couple days, T-Mobile finally got the number into the account. The port from T-Mobile to GV, was extremely easy and done in less than 24 hours.

EDIT: For people unaware, GV (Personal) only allows porting of mobile numbers, hence for my parents, I had to do the "dance" of porting from Centurylink (which was a landline) to T-Mobile (mobile) first, then to GV (Google Voice).
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Kermee
09-18-2020 at 03:24 PM.
09-18-2020 at 03:24 PM.
Quote from DontTaxBeer :
wow, cant believe this never went down in price.
Yeah. Never saw it below $50 after Polycom took over.
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jtree1
09-18-2020 at 05:50 PM.
09-18-2020 at 05:50 PM.
Any deals on the Obi202?
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