Invoxia Voice Bridge - Landline Calls On Your Mobile

Better than landline, better than cell phone :) , Landline in your mobile. Great product ! Good seller !

I have further updated my review to five stars. I have had the opportunity to use the replacement Voice Bridge away from home and am pleased with the way it works. I had to contact AT&T and have the number of rings before voice mail picks up changed to a higher number of rings so the voice bridge had a chance to alert me to an incoming call. If you need to originate and receive calls on a specific landline while you are away from home or away from the office, this device allows you to do so and works really well. I have updated my review from 1 star to 3 stars.Voice Bridge support determined that the unit I had was probably defective and shipped a replacement from France via DHL. It arrived in three days. The replacement booted up, updated, and was ready to use within less than five minutes. I was able to easily pair it with my iPhone and make and receive calls. I will be pleased to update my review again to 5 stars if it performs as advertised as I use it in the field over the next few days. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --ORIGINAL 1 STAR REVIEW -- Unfortunately, this device apparently either works or it doesn't. After following the simple three step installation instructions, if it doesn't work, support is limited to, "Is it plugged in". Once support figures out it is plugged in and still doesn't work, they apparently close the ticket and move on to someone else. There is no way that I could find to address the unit for troubleshooting. By looking at the status page of my wifi router, I was able to determine that it has been sending and receiving data packets without errors or dropouts for days, but that is all. It never fully boots up and updates so the blinking LED never goes steady indicating the unit is ready to use. Until the unit boots up, it cannot be discovered by the smartphone app. It was a good idea, but since it is not functional, it is going back to amazon tomorrow.

Ich habe zwar eigentlich auch eine Fritz Box, doch die Fritz! Fon App ist von 2013 und scheint nicht mehr gepflegt zu werden... was vermutlich der Grund für die vielen Abstürze, Verbindungsabbrüche und ausbleibende Anzeigen über eingehende Anrufe erklärt. Nachdem nun mein altes DECT Telefon den Geist aufgegeben hat habe ich mich nach etwas Neuem umgesehen und bin dabei auf die Voice Bridge gestoßen und aus Neugier direkt mal bestellt. Auspacken und Anschließen hat gerade einmal 5 Minuten gedauert, noch kurz App fürs iPhone runter laden und im lokalen WLAN in der App die neue Basisstation gesucht... und ich konnte von meinem iPhone über das Festnetz telefonieren, keine Konfiguration notwendig. Anrufe annehmen funktioniert ebenfalls sofort und wenn ich mal nicht zu Hause bin bekomme ich eine kleine Nachricht aufs iPhone über verpasste Anrufe, inkl. der Nummer, sofern nicht ohnehin anonym.

Very reliable, never had a problem.

Je dois dire que c'est avec une certaine appréhension que je me suis finalement décidé à acheter ce produit tant les critiques étaient assez mitigées. Mais en fait il n'en est rien. Pour ma part tout s'est très bien passé. L'appareil fonctionne admirablement et remplit parfaitement ses fonctions aussi bien en réseau local qu'en extérieur avec une connexion 4G (voire peut-être même 3G). Je précise que j'ai une bonne connexion internet (réseau câblé 100 Mbps DL / 5 Mbps UP) et que j'ai également un très bon forfait téléphone où la 4G est presque partout. Il est vrai que lors de la première installation, il m'a fallu le réinitialiser en premier lieu et après il s’est connecté avec l’application. Au tout début, il ne réagissait pas tout de suite et les appels étaient pas toujours pris en compte malgré mes tests répétés. Je précise que j'ai bien mis l'application en mode de batterie non optimisé. Je me suis dit que je verrai ça un peu plus tard et au bout de 30 minutes il ne ratait plus un appel et fonctionnait du tonnerre ! Je n'avais pourtant rien fait de plus. Je suppose qu'il avait dû se mettre à jour ou s'était activé sur les services de Voice Bridge entre temps. Maintenant en ce qui concerne l'application, elle fait le job mais il y a tout de même de petits bugs sans gravité mais tout de même enquiquinants quand ils surviennent (heureusement pas souvent). Du genre un appel arrive et là le smartphone sonne mais on ne voit rien affiché à l'écran. Pour décrocher il faut aller dans les notifications. Quand on le sait, ce n'est pas un problème mais dans le cas contraire on se demande pourquoi le téléphone sonne sans préciser pourquoi. J'ai aussi eu quelques petits bugs de superposition graphique mais il suffisait de virer l'application des processus et de la relancer et c'était bon. Bref mettre l'application au goût du jour et d'y ajouter quelques fonctionnalités supplémentaires comme par exemple un système de liste blanche et liste noire, ce serait bien pratique, éventuellement aussi l'enregistrement de conversation.

Summary: Connect this little box to your phone line (as if it were another phone), by Ethernet to a port on your home network router, and to power (USB power wall-wart supplied). Install an app on your iOS or Android smart-phone (or tablet), and then you can use the app to make outgoing calls on your land line, and take incoming calls (which ring on your smart-phone via the app as well as your land line phones). The remarkable thing is that this works even while you are away from home, as long as you have Internet access on your smart-phone (by mobile network or WiFi). Even with the smart-phone in sleep, the app is still alive in the background and wakes on an incoming call. THE GOOD: this product works brilliantly on iOS (in my case an iPad Pro Mini, but presumably any iPad or iPhone except the iPad is hard to hold to your ear!). Now works on Android too* (see below). * When purchased, the app for Android was still under development and only worked with some phones, in my case not with a Samsung Galaxy A3(2016). I was assured it worked with some smart-phones, and the developers said they are working hard to make the product compatible with all Android phones. As of February 2017, having requested access to the beta software testing, with my Android phone now on beta software version 5.2.1, my phone pairs with the Voice Bridge unit (when it wouldn't using 5.1.9), and I was able to place an outgoing call from my home WiFi network and from outside. I was having trouble picking up incoming calls though, and after discussion with the developers I was advised to disable power saving for the VoiceBridge app (Settings.. Battery.. App power saving), after which it has been working fine. Top marks to Invoxia, who seem very willing to help. If you find it's not compatible with your phone, contact them to see whether there is a software update available. THE BAD: there isn't any. It's a great product at a great price. TO BE AWARE OF: I found the product injected a noticeable hum or buzz on the phone line (although not apparent to external callers) when connected to my BT HomeHub4 or a Thomson TG585 router. This is not the case when a Netgear DGND3700 router is used, and I do not understand why there would be a difference. TO BE AWARE OF: In the previous version of this review, I queried the mechanism by which "On the Go" (ie connected via the Internet rather than the home WiFi) works. In their comment to this review, the developers say there is a server, using encrypted communications. This raises the question of what happens if for some reason Invoxia cease to be - presumably it will then only work at home and not On the Go (which is my reason for purchase). However, that said, this is one of only a very few options available. BONUS: I actually use the Voice Bridge downstream of a trueCall call filtering unit (intercepting or allowing through calls based on their caller-ID), and it works fine (only calls authorised to ring the home phones make it through the trueCall, and therefore I don't get nuisance calls to my VoiceBridge app either).