Digital Home Phones - Because sometimes the cell phone is just out of reach..
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So to summarize I often have a hard time hearing / am to lazy to run for my cell phone when someone calls (I'll walk to grab it, but eh), and my gf has been nagging me that if I miss another phone call she'll get a home phone (fml... meaning TWC would again be a service in my house costing ~$20/month for one off cases.)
And it would be just something else I'd have to run for.... which I don't want to do (not fat, just lazy)
Anyways I'd like to setup a real simple FreePBX box, preferably with just usage charges (cents per minute) and have no monthly account fees etc.
I've setup a FreePBX VM before (I'll have to double check if I still have it) but am curious if I can set this up.
That if someone calls the home phone that it would ring my laptop, her laptop, my tablet. If no answer on any of these forward to a voicemail box.
Paging @JaredBusch since he's our resident VOIP expert dealing with FreePBX constantly.
Stealing from this post here.
- A single DID would be way more than enough
- All inbound calls should ring several devices inside the house (I'll configure Zoiper on each)
- Outbound calls should be as simple as dialing from a cell phone
- Call handling - Voicemail isn't required by any means, but if possible lets set it up so that if no internal extension answers a generic mailbox picks up and allows the caller to leave a message, accessible from any soft phone.
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@DustinB3403 Do not use a FreePBX install.
Just subscribe to VoIP.ms and connect a phone directly.
Busy with a down client. I'll type more later.
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@DustinB3403 said in Digital Home Phones - Because sometimes the cell phone is just out of reach..:
So to summarize I often have a hard time hearing / am to lazy to run for my cell phone when someone calls (I'll walk to grab it, but eh), and my gf has been nagging me that if I miss another phone call she'll get a home phone (fml... meaning TWC would again be a service in my house costing ~$20/month for one off cases.)
And it would be just something else I'd have to run for.... which I don't want to do (not fat, just lazy)
Anyways I'd like to setup a real simple FreePBX box, preferably with just usage charges (cents per minute) and have no monthly account fees etc.
I've setup a FreePBX VM before (I'll have to double check if I still have it) but am curious if I can set this up.
That if someone calls the home phone that it would ring my laptop, her laptop, my tablet. If no answer on any of these forward to a voicemail box.
Paging @JaredBusch since he's our resident VOIP expert dealing with FreePBX constantly.
Stealing from this post here.
- A single DID would be way more than enough
- All inbound calls should ring several devices inside the house (I'll configure Zoiper on each)
- Outbound calls should be as simple as dialing from a cell phone
- Call handling - Voicemail isn't required by any means, but if possible lets set it up so that if no internal extension answers a generic mailbox picks up and allows the caller to leave a message, accessible from any soft phone.
Yes, you can do what you want. Setup the DID to forward to a call group. Then register all of those devices with separate extensions. Add those extensions to the call group and you'll be good to go. This is very simple with FreePBX.
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I don't have the interface setup to show how simple it is.
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@JaredBusch said in Digital Home Phones - Because sometimes the cell phone is just out of reach..:
@DustinB3403 Do not use a FreePBX install.
Just subscribe to VoIP.ms and connect a phone directly.
Busy with a down client. I'll type more later.
When you get back the question I have for you is, by phone, do you mean a physical phone? I want to avoid having to run through the house to grab a physical phone.
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@coliver said in Digital Home Phones - Because sometimes the cell phone is just out of reach..:
Yes, you can do what you want. Setup the DID to forward to a call group. Then register all of those devices with separate extensions. Add those extensions to the call group and you'll be good to go. This is very simple with FreePBX.
That is what I was thinking as well, I played with FreePBX and had some soft phones setup, but I didn't attach a DID to the system, nor configure any call routing.
I'm curious how I can do what Jared is recommending.
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If VOIP.ms allows multiple registrations on a single account, then you would just log them all in. Think of like any regular chat client. You have one logon, but you can log in from a large number of devices simultaneously.
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@DustinB3403 said in Digital Home Phones - Because sometimes the cell phone is just out of reach..:
@coliver said in Digital Home Phones - Because sometimes the cell phone is just out of reach..:
Yes, you can do what you want. Setup the DID to forward to a call group. Then register all of those devices with separate extensions. Add those extensions to the call group and you'll be good to go. This is very simple with FreePBX.
That is what I was thinking as well, I played with FreePBX and had some soft phones setup, but I didn't attach a DID to the system, nor configure any call routing.
I'm curious how I can do what Jared is recommending.
He's suggesting just use voip.ms and register each zoiper soft phone directly to the voip.ms account.
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@Dashrender Do you mean log into the account from the soft phone directly?
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@DustinB3403 said in Digital Home Phones - Because sometimes the cell phone is just out of reach..:
@Dashrender Do you mean log into the account from the soft phone directly?
Yes.
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Hrm...
and that would give me the above wants, with nothing more than the softphone app and the account. Would that include voicemail?
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@coliver said in Digital Home Phones - Because sometimes the cell phone is just out of reach..:
@DustinB3403 said in Digital Home Phones - Because sometimes the cell phone is just out of reach..:
@Dashrender Do you mean log into the account from the soft phone directly?
Yes.
uh huh.
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@DustinB3403 said in Digital Home Phones - Because sometimes the cell phone is just out of reach..:
Hrm...
and that would give me the above wants, with nothing more than the softphone app and the account. Would that include voicemail?
depends if VOIP.MS offers it or not.
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@DustinB3403 said in Digital Home Phones - Because sometimes the cell phone is just out of reach..:
Hrm...
and that would give me the above wants, with nothing more than the softphone app and the account. Would that include voicemail?
That's I'm not sure. I don't know what voip.ms offers.
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I have FreePBX set up with Google voice.
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@stacksofplates said in Digital Home Phones - Because sometimes the cell phone is just out of reach..:
I have FreePBX set up with Google voice.
LOL - that's another option - setup Google Voice for free, install the client where ever you need it and all at no cost.
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What's really funny here is - Dustin's younger than me, I think around 32'ish, and while not a millennial, perhaps just at that cutoff where people really don't use the phone much anymore.
I'm surprised his gf is still trying to contact him on a phone and not through some type of messaging. Granted that messaging could be SMS, they are old enough where that's probably their main chat choice (my wife and I bounce equally between SMS and FB chat - on phone SMS, on computer FB) so Dustin would still have to go to his phone where ever it might be.
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@Dashrender Text and phone is all I use.
I'm a FB ninja, and my gf refuses to get a smart phone as it costs so much more than her flip phone. Which takes 20 minutes to type a SMS on.
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@Dashrender said in Digital Home Phones - Because sometimes the cell phone is just out of reach..:
What's really funny here is - Dustin's younger than me, I think around 32'ish, and while not a millennial, perhaps just at that cutoff where people really don't use the phone much anymore.
I'm surprised his gf is still trying to contact him on a phone and not through some type of messaging. Granted that messaging could be SMS, they are old enough where that's probably their main chat choice (my wife and I bounce equally between SMS and FB chat - on phone SMS, on computer FB) so Dustin would still have to go to his phone where ever it might be.
We tend to bounce back and forth (@art_of_shred and I that is) between skype and Imessage (texting). Why not just use skype?
you can setup an account. Sign in on all devices and just do skype to skype calls.... works across multiple devices, syncs well and well you can call it and it's free....
