Support DTMF through the phone port for incoming calls
Many SOHO/Small businesses would like to attach an IVR/Auto Attendant system or existing small PBX system behind the ooma system, but no DTMF pass-through kills it.
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Re: Support DTMF through the phone port for incoming calls
Good luck. This has been rehashed many times. I don't think this one is gonna happen, for the very reason you are requesting it.
Re: Support DTMF through the phone port for incoming calls
but this "problem" also screws with, for example,
[*]remote fax reception (when your fax machine holds faxes in memory and then you call and have them forwarded to you)
[*]widgets like house freezing monitors that you call to check the temperature when you are away on vacation during winter (EXAMPLE http://www.specialtyalarms.com/site/131 ... ct/50-2002 and yes, I do know people who leave home for 1-2 months and use these things)
[*]alarm call-back programming used to program napco and other home alarm systems
[*]remote fax reception (when your fax machine holds faxes in memory and then you call and have them forwarded to you)
[*]widgets like house freezing monitors that you call to check the temperature when you are away on vacation during winter (EXAMPLE http://www.specialtyalarms.com/site/131 ... ct/50-2002 and yes, I do know people who leave home for 1-2 months and use these things)
[*]alarm call-back programming used to program napco and other home alarm systems
Re: Support DTMF through the phone port for incoming calls
ooma is a residential Voice Over IP - if those options are needed it's best to maintain POTSjm9496 wrote:but this "problem" also screws with, for example,
[*]remote fax reception (when your fax machine holds faxes in memory and then you call and have them forwarded to you)
[*]widgets like house freezing monitors that you call to check the temperature when you are away on vacation during winter (EXAMPLE http://www.specialtyalarms.com/site/131 ... ct/50-2002 and yes, I do know people who leave home for 1-2 months and use these things)
[*]alarm call-back programming used to program napco and other home alarm systems
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Re: Support DTMF through the phone port for incoming calls
That is a weak argument since many VOIP providers do not block DTMF.niknak wrote:ooma is a residential Voice Over IP - if those options are needed it's best to maintain POTSjm9496 wrote:but this "problem" also screws with, for example,
[*]remote fax reception (when your fax machine holds faxes in memory and then you call and have them forwarded to you)
[*]widgets like house freezing monitors that you call to check the temperature when you are away on vacation during winter (EXAMPLE http://www.specialtyalarms.com/site/131 ... ct/50-2002 and yes, I do know people who leave home for 1-2 months and use these things)
[*]alarm call-back programming used to program napco and other home alarm systems
Scott
Re: Support DTMF through the phone port for incoming calls
Why does Ooma block DTMF signals? I am pretty sure they didn't when I 1st got the sytem but now they are blocked.
Ooma Telo, Hub.
1958 was a very good year!
No cell phone , no land line- just Ooma
all my eggs in one Ooma basket
I lied- my wife has a cell, but not me!! I like my privacy and not being attached to a phone.
1958 was a very good year!
No cell phone , no land line- just Ooma
all my eggs in one Ooma basket
I lied- my wife has a cell, but not me!! I like my privacy and not being attached to a phone.
Re: Support DTMF through the phone port for incoming calls
They have always been blocked for me which was since late March of this year.
Re: Support DTMF through the phone port for incoming calls
The reason I don't think they were blocked is that I had an answering machine hooked up and I believe i was able to access it through the dtmf tones. I could be wrong but that is what I remember.
Ooma Telo, Hub.
1958 was a very good year!
No cell phone , no land line- just Ooma
all my eggs in one Ooma basket
I lied- my wife has a cell, but not me!! I like my privacy and not being attached to a phone.
1958 was a very good year!
No cell phone , no land line- just Ooma
all my eggs in one Ooma basket
I lied- my wife has a cell, but not me!! I like my privacy and not being attached to a phone.
Re: Support DTMF through the phone port for incoming calls
Right now, inbound DTMF doesn't work on the Hub due to a limitation with a proprietary hardware component/driver.
We are planning to support inbound DTMF on the Ooma Telo, since the device is not limited by this proprietary component.
We are planning to support inbound DTMF on the Ooma Telo, since the device is not limited by this proprietary component.
Bobby B
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Re: Support DTMF through the phone port for incoming calls
Thank you for stating the hard facts on this. That is what we needed to know to stop the swirl on it.Bobby B wrote:Right now, inbound DTMF doesn't work on the Hub due to a limitation with a proprietary hardware component/driver.
We are planning to support inbound DTMF on the Ooma Telo, since the device is not limited by this proprietary component.
Scott