Comment by patch_cable
1 year ago
I recently just set this up for my 5 year old.
I bought a Grandstream HandyTone 801 as a bridge. I use voip.ms as a service provider. Both are geared toward more technical users, but the service is very reasonable for the price. Instructions for configuring it are clunky but not too bad: https://wiki.voip.ms/article/Grandstream_HandyTone_802_-_HT8....
I had previously tried Ooma, but I didn't like that it wanted to sit between my router and modem.
Curious if you can set a schedule so that it doesn't ring in the middle of the night. Do you get spam calls like the old days?
I haven’t explored that. My intended use case was outbound calls, so I just bought a phone that allows you to switch the ringer off.
Rather than specific hours, I would probably just create an allowlist of friend and family numbers and trust them not to abuse it.