FreeBX & OBi110-UK to deal with nuisance calls

General Help
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Hello,

I have never setup Asteriks before, but we are getting alot of nusiace calls recently sometimes from with-held numbers.

I started to look to see what can be done about this and found a article where Asteriks was setup with a OBi110-UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/OBi110-UK-Service-Bridge-Telephone-Adaptor/dp/B004XJCBGU/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top)

My understanding is I can connect by Sky telephone line into the OBi110-UK
device and then my standard non IP phone. The OBi110-UK will then be able to talk to a FreePX instance (I’m looking at using a Digital Ocean VPS for now).

Once thats setup I should then able to make unknown calls enter a number before they proceed to my phone and allow the phone ring. I also hope there is some sort of database of known margeting numbers that I can use to drop certain calls.

Is Asteriks able to do see hidden caller IDs? I didnt think it would be able to do but I thought I read somewhere it can.

Has anyone had experience of doing this and does it seem logical, or have I missed something?

Thanks

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It would be easier to determine if the OBi110 and Asterisk would do what you wanted if we could read the article you found.

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You can find the artible by Gooling “blocking-silent-and-nuisance-calls-with-an-obi110” - it is the first result. I cant post the link due to being a new member.

I wanted clarifcation on this would work as I expalined, for example I dont need outbound calls going via the PBX and what is a trunk?

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If you are trying to block these calls, maybe they are Anonymous Inbound SIP Calls and you need to block them in the Asterisk SIP Settings “Allow Anonymous Inbound SIP Calls” = NO, or “SIP Guests”, which I also always set to NO. I have also had SIP phones as remote users that were directly connected to the Internet and they had some strange IP to IP calls coming in. I had to block them in the SIP phone’s settings. On my Yealink 46G it is “Allow IP Call”.