Using Rainbow without a registered telephone

[becker]

Hi,

is it possible to use the Rainbow App (Desktop or Smartphone) without having a registered telephone in the office? I heard it might be possible by using "SIP device" as set type for the user, but it's not working for me. For now I have to set up a Rainbow user for every extension and connect it as a tandem to the main extension.

I don't get why alcatel does this. Isn't Rainbow a kind of soft phone. It seems very weird to have a phone in the office that needs to be muted while a user is using Rainbow in the homeoffice.

We have a hybrid system with a WebRTC server for Rainbow and an OmniPCX Enterprise.

Thanks in advance!

[oldboy]

100% you can use it without a hardphone, early version of webRTC required it but no longer.

Follow the docos and it works perfectly

[alexeik]

you dont have to create a tandem. You can create the Remote Extension only, and it works fine. Only bad situation is a dect set and Rainbow

[oldboy]

No tandem at all, Rainbow as you know is designed like one number on OT, so hardphone softphone on PC , Softphone on Mobile

[becker]

Thank you for the replies.

Yes, I was able to create a new user using the set type "Remote extension" and connect it to Rainbow. However I can not think of a way to change an existing user with a set typ "4029" and a personal extension number, so that this user can use Rainbow from Homeoffice without having an active hard phone programmed in the office, as I can not set the same personal extension number for the "Remote extension"-User.

Am I making sense? Background for my questions is: I am not happy with this tandem solution, as I have to install multiple hard phones in the office without anyone using them. The COVID situation is currently resulting in constant seat-switching in the office as well as office <-> homeoffice. So if I could use my existing "Remote extension" user for Rainbow only (not as tandem user for the main set), I would just use normal forwarding and mask the rainbow user with there real personal office extension number.

Am I missing something?

[Konstantinos.E]

i think there is an option on system parameters if local set is out of service the rainbow user is still working