[asterisk-gui] Fax on Asterisk GUI

Bob Crandell bob at assuredcomp.com
Tue Apr 14 10:51:33 CDT 2009


Thank you and sorry for wondering down a rabbit trail.


On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 10:47 -0500, Ryan Brindley wrote:
> I'm not a fax expert, but I imagine if you have certain DIDs for
> faxing that Asterisk can route those to the fax server. I think I've
> heard of that before...again...I've never personally done an
> installation requiring this, only heard of it. You can ask in
> asterisk-users at lists.digium.com, or IRC, or anything for a better
> answer, if no one else chimes in. :-)
> 
> --                 
> Ryan Brindley                 
> Digium, Inc. | Software Developer                 
> 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA                 
> main: +1 256-428-6000   fax: +1 256-864-0464                 
> Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Crandell" <bob at assuredcomp.com>
> To: "Ryan Brindley" <rbrindley at digium.com>
> Cc: "Asterisk GUI project discussion" <asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:40:01 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-gui] Fax on Asterisk GUI
> 
> Ryan,
> 
> I'm not interested in Asterisk handling the faxes just having it route
> an incoming fax to our fax server.  Will it do that without FFA?
> 
> Sounds like FFA is going to turn Asterisk into a pretty sweet product
> and with your GUI on top of it ... wow.
> 
> Thanks
> Bob
> 
> On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 09:06 -0500, Ryan Brindley wrote: 
> 
>         Bob,
>         Digium just released Fax For Asterisk (FFA,
>         http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/faxforasterisk.php). Rajesh was wondering when a GUI page would be committed, so that users could use the new FFA on the GUI.
>         
>         --                 
>         Ryan Brindley                 
>         Digium, Inc. | Software Developer                 
>         445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA
>                         
>         main: +1 256-428-6000   fax: +1 256-864-0464                 
>         Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org
>         
>         ----- Original Message -----
>         From: "Bob Crandell" <bob at assuredcomp.com>
>         To: "Asterisk GUI project discussion"
>         <asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com>
>         Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 8:37:59 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada
>         Central
>         Subject: Re: [asterisk-gui] Fax on Asterisk GUI
>         
>         Speaking of faxes.  We have a fax server.  Will Asterisk
>         recognize an incoming fax and route it there or is this what
>         you guys have been talking about?
>         
>         
>         On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 08:06 -0500, Ryan Brindley wrote: 
>         
>                 Rajesh,
>                 Unfortunately, its still in the discussion stage. I'll
>                 give an update when I hear anything.
>                 
>                 Following Neil Stone's comment, if you are interested
>                 in hearing about a fax update, please start a new
>                 thread and don't reply to an unrelated thread. Its
>                 quite annoying to readers when that happens, and
>                 eventually many loose their willingness to help. So,
>                 if you were unaware, consider this a quick 101 of
>                 mailing lists. If you were aware, consider this a
>                 warning that if you want to be taken seriously, you'll
>                 have to be respectful.
>                 
>                 --                 
>                 Ryan Brindley                 
>                 Digium, Inc. | Software Developer                 
>                 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA
>                                 
>                 main: +1 256-428-6000   fax: +1 256-864-0464
>                                 
>                 Check us out at: http://digium.com &
>                 http://asterisk.org
>                 
>                 ----- Original Message -----
>                 From: "Rajesh Kumar ( Alshaya Group International )"
>                 <raj at alshaya-group.com>
>                 To: "asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com"
>                 <asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com>
>                 Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 5:14:38 PM GMT -06:00
>                 US/Canada Central
>                 Subject: Re: [asterisk-gui] Queue Agent Support Needs
>                 Major Rewrite
>                 
>                 Hey any update on fax as Digium as released fax
>                 application hope to see it soon on gui
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 Regards,
>                 
>                 Rajesh Kumar
>                 Alshaya Group International
>                 raj at alshaya-group.com
>                 Tel (+965 2298-0555 Ext 307)
>                 Mobile (+965 9722-4083)
>                 
>                 ----- Original Message -----
>                 From: asterisk-gui-bounces at lists.digium.com
>                 <asterisk-gui-bounces at lists.digium.com>
>                 To: Asterisk GUI project discussion
>                 <asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com>
>                 Sent: Mon Apr 13 22:32:59 2009
>                 Subject: Re: [asterisk-gui] Queue Agent Support Needs
>                 Major Rewrite
>                 
>                 George,
>                 You are definitely right, and both are known issues.
>                 
>                 When I first got onto the GUI dev team and looked at
>                 the queues stuff, the 'secret' sharing was one of the
>                 first red flags I saw. Its since been proposed that an
>                 'agentsecret' variable be in users.conf for the very
>                 reason. And while I can't update on the status of that
>                 feature, I can at least report that its acknowledged.
>                 
>                 As for the 'an indication that the left hand doesn't
>                 know about the right...', besides that that comment is
>                 a bit unnecessary; its also just not true. If you look
>                 at http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=14459, you'll
>                 see that we were aware of this at least in Feb
>                 (although I'd claim more like Nov of 08), and that its
>                 a blocker for the next release of the open source GUI.
>                 The reasoning for the delay in development can simply
>                 be explained by listing my schedule. Good news is that
>                 its next on the list. :-)
>                 
>                 When I begin development on AddQueueMember (replacing
>                 AgentCallBackLogin), I'll report back to this thread
>                 on the svn branch if you're interested in helping
>                 test.
>                 
>                 --
>                 Ryan Brindley
>                 Digium, Inc. | Software Developer
>                 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA
>                 main: +1 256-428-6000   fax: +1 256-864-0464
>                 Check us out at: http://digium.com &
>                 http://asterisk.org
>                 
>                 ----- Original Message -----
>                 From: "George Pajari" <George.Pajari at netvoice.ca>
>                 To: asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com
>                 Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 2:04:56 PM GMT -06:00
>                 US/Canada Central
>                 Subject: [asterisk-gui] Queue Agent Support Needs
>                 Major Rewrite
>                 
>                 Just started to try to use the queue agent and the
>                 current
>                 implementation of the Asterisk GUI essentially renders
>                 these features
>                 unusable for us.
>                 
>                 The major problem is that the agent login password,
>                 incredibly, is the
>                 same as the SIP secret. Obviously this needs to be
>                 changed so that the
>                 agent passwords are
>                 separate and independent of any other authentication
>                 information (for
>                 SIP or whatever). (I won't comment on the fact that
>                 this little gem
>                 appears not to be documented anywhere.)
>                 
>                 A less important issue but an indication that the left
>                 hand doesn't know
>                 about the right is the fact that AgentCallbackLogin is
>                 deprecated in 1.4
>                 (and is removed in 1.6) yet is still being used in
>                 AsteriskGUI 2.
>                 
>                 I'll hand code some stuff in the extensions.conf so we
>                 can use queues
>                 but either the queue support in Asterisk GUI needs to
>                 be fixed or
>                 removed. To have those tabs suggesting that queues can
>                 be used through
>                 the GUI is just cruel temptation.
>                 
>                 --
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>                 VOIP(8647) x102
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