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Apr. 30th, 2019 11:07 pmI'm researching an on-call solution where a guest can call the number, and the call goes to whoever is set up for this.
The problem with Google Voice: I already have and primarily use GV. To my knowledge, I can't really set up a second number to ring my same cell.
A second problem, that we're running into right now: any given GV number is tied to a person's account. This is called a "single point of failure" in theory-land; when it inevitably becomes an issue, it's called a "clusterfuck".
Some requirements:
* One phone number that can ring to any particular phone that's been configured in the system, up to about 12 phone numbers.
* Globe brain: scheduling.
* The phone number is not restricted to any one real phone number.
* The caller incurs no cost.^
* The cost to us is relatively cheap. We only truly need it for about a week a year. Honestly, something that's very minimal per month, and we pay per minute that we're in an actual call, would be totally fine.
^ I can't think of an example of this happening, but we're in the death throes of capitalism, so I list requirements.
All input, including questioning my requirements, welcome.
Hell, maybe we could get some prepaid phone thing like Cricket and just physically hand it around to whoever's on-call at the time.
The problem with Google Voice: I already have and primarily use GV. To my knowledge, I can't really set up a second number to ring my same cell.
A second problem, that we're running into right now: any given GV number is tied to a person's account. This is called a "single point of failure" in theory-land; when it inevitably becomes an issue, it's called a "clusterfuck".
Some requirements:
* One phone number that can ring to any particular phone that's been configured in the system, up to about 12 phone numbers.
* Globe brain: scheduling.
* The phone number is not restricted to any one real phone number.
* The caller incurs no cost.^
* The cost to us is relatively cheap. We only truly need it for about a week a year. Honestly, something that's very minimal per month, and we pay per minute that we're in an actual call, would be totally fine.
^ I can't think of an example of this happening, but we're in the death throes of capitalism, so I list requirements.
All input, including questioning my requirements, welcome.
Hell, maybe we could get some prepaid phone thing like Cricket and just physically hand it around to whoever's on-call at the time.
