“Will Ooma work with a 20 year old landline based home alarm system if I port over my current home phone number?”
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I've worked in the security industry for about 25 years and can tell you that even newer alarm systems may have trouble communicating over VOIP. Alarm panels and alarm receivers were not designed to use VOIP. We had many people who would drop their landline phone service only to discover that now their alarm panel will not communicate. Contact your alarm company and see if there might be an option for cellular communication, even for your older system.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.It should. Let me tell you my challenge--it may help. Our high-speed internet is in the kitchen. I attached Ooma to it and ran a cord over to our kitchen phone. That worked fine. We have a downstairs landline telephone when I checked it, the line was full of static. I bought a line splitter--that sort of worked. The downstairs phone would ring, but there wasn't enough power on the line for it to work well. I would have to "dial" each number (press each button) and wait for 5 seconds until there was enough power on the line to press the next button. I bought a 3 line cordless phone and put the base in the kitchen and a handset downstairs--it worked perfectly! The Ooma instructions said to disconnect the outside connection and unplug the power transformer that powered the line. I was afraid of damaging the Ooma if I plugged it back in to provide power for the downstairs line. So, if you can place your alarm system close to the Ooma unit, it would work--if it is a ways away, you might have to use something like I did to get it to work.
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