| | |  | Electronics | Home » » ooma Scout (to use with VoIP Phone Device with No Monthly Phone Service Bills) | | | | | | | Description: | | Try out ooma's enhanced calling features with a free trial of ooma Premier, which includes a free second phone line, real-time message screening, one-touch Do Not Disturb and Send to Voicemail, a second personal number with private voicemail, and more | | | Features: | |
• Please note: An ooma Hub is required to enjoy the ooma Scout's functionality. Visit the ooma Hub page to learn more. The ooma Scout is not compatible with the ooma Telo.
• Enjoy unlimited US calling, exceptional voice quality, and must-have features with no monthly fees or contracts
• Receive caller-ID, call-waiting, and voicemail at no extra charge; pay as you go for low-cost international calls
• Extend the power of the ooma system anywhere you have a phone jack by connecting an ooma Scout device
• Try out ooma's enhanced calling features with a free trial of ooma Premier, which includes a free second phone line, real-time message screening, one-touch Do Not Disturb and Send to Voicemail, a second personal number with private voicemail, and more
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 3.25 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.5 pounds | | Package Length:
| 10.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 24 reviews |
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 Baffled at firstFeb 25, 2010
Wanted to get rid of the local phone company charges for our 2-line home setup. Bought the Telo at first, then quickly realized that it had only one dedicated line. Returned it and bought a Hub/Scout instead.
As an engineer, I thought this would be a snap, but I admit I was baffled at first by some of the diagrams and descriptions. All I wanted was a way to disconnect the regular phone lines and use Ooma instead. But some of the diagrams implied that I would need to buy a Scout for every phone in the house.
So now I figured it out. I pay $30/month for a DSL-only line to the house. That signal goes to an Actiontec M1000 modem, and an ethernet cable runs from it to a DLink Di-524 WiFi router. An ethernet cable runs from one of the ethernet ports to the Hub. The Scout is connected directly to the Hub with a short RJ11 cable via the "wall" ports on the backs of the Hub and Scout. Two phone lines come off the "phone" ports of the Hub and Scout and connect to the two phone lines already running throughout the house. Works great.
UPDATE 25 Feb 2010:
My two numbers ported over to Ooma earlier today. The landlines went dead for incoming calls this morning, and the numbers showed up on the Ooma boxes about 4 hours later. Voice quality is excellent, everything appears to be perfectly normal, and if it continues I'll be pocketing $60/mo, so breakeven in about 5 months, then gravy.
 Scouts work great!Feb 04, 2010
My 2 scouts work great! Look for my comments on Ooma under the Ooma Core reviews.
Ooma scoutFeb 03, 2010
You can hook up other house phones to the Ooma system without using the scout provided you are willing and able to disconnect your home phone wiring from external lines. The advantages of using a scout with extension phones are:
1) Simplicity. Plug the scout into a phone jack. Connect the phone to the scout. Done.
2) The scout provides access to the Ooma messages. Without the scout you can pick up messages from the main Ooma unit only.
3) If you opt for a 2 line system the scout provides access to both lines from the remote location.
I have the main Ooma unit and 2 scouts. The system works flawlessly.
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Only buy the Scout if you are ADDING to an existing ooma Hub system - not Telo!Oct 20, 2009
The ooma Scout is an add-on to the ooma Core (Hub & Scout package) or ooma Hub (no Scout). At this point, after October 1st 2009, if you do not already own an ooma Hub, make sure that you buy the ooma Core package or the Telo, but not the Hub or Scout separately. The ooma Scout does not work with the ooma Telo, so if you own a Telo do not buy a Scout.
If you already own an ooma Hub and Scout, and you pay for ooma's Premier service, then you can use your Scout for a free second phone line. You can also buy more Scouts, up to four per Hub, and pay an additional $4.99/month for each phone line above two. If you are just now activating ooma service, make sure that you get all your phone numbers at the same time, in order to try to get them in sequential order.
My review of the ooma Core system and reasons you may wish to buy Core or Telo can be found on the ooma Core (Hub & Scout package) review page, dated 10-19-2009.
Ooma ScoutSep 28, 2009
Ditch traditional voip and go with Ooma. Very easy way to lower your home phone bill.
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