[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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>
>
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