[asterisk-gui] Fax on Asterisk GUI

Bob Crandell bob at assuredcomp.com
Fri Apr 17 09:45:57 CDT 2009


Good.  That is what I was hoping for.  Now if only I could get a few
more minutes together to get this thing on line.

Thanks
Bob


On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 21:56 -0700, Trevor Benson wrote:

> We have done this with various methods just routing the DID through
> asterisk.  Just transfer down one of your FXS ports, or we even have a
> few clients use SIP gateway devices and connect the fax to that, and
> then we direct the call to the sip device via its extension, and the
> fax answers and receives.  All without spandsp/FFA installed at all.
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> Trevor Benson
> A1 Networks
> (707)570-2021 x201
> tbenson at a-1networks.com
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> On Apr 14, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Ryan Brindley wrote:
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> > 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 athttp://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.
> >                 
> >                 --
> >                 George Pajari (dCAP), netVOICE communications 604
> >                 484 VOIP(8647) x102
> >                   www.netvoice.ca  www.ip-centrex.ca  www.ip-pbx.ca  www.vpas.ca
> >                 
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> >                 VOIP (638 8647 x102)
> >                 
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