[Asterisk-Users] Re: SpanDSP/RxFax help...

[William Suffill]

If you are going to do hylafax why not just do it seperate from
asterisk on a regular modem and just email o ut the results. Don't see
the big bonus to using a FXS and the adding cost and point of
failures.



On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:13:25 +1200, Carlos Hernandez
<carlosh at linuxservices.co.nz> wrote:
> About faxing, anyone tried this?
> 
> How about instead of sending the fax to a tiff file, dial an FXS
> extension, where you'll have either a dedicated fax machine, or a
> Hylafax-connected modem, so you handle all your faxes though hylafax?
> 
> I have hylafax running succesfully, and can send and receive already
> using an external modem.. so, if I plug the modem's phone line to a
> zaptel FXS, I'll be able to do:
> 
> exten => fax,1,Dial(Zap/X)
> exten => fax,2,Hangup
> 
> You could centraly handle faxes on hylafax.. and email the tiffs after
> that...
> 
> I'd appreciate your thoughts on this. I'll be trying this later on..
> 
> Carlos H.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Stefan Tichy wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:25:17AM -0500, Rob Fugina wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I'm using the latest Asterisk from CVS, SpanDSP 0.0.1k, and the
> >>latest
> >>app_rxfax.c (as mirrored by friendly list members recently), and
> >>libtiff
> >>3.5.7.  Asterisk is detecting the fax signal properly, and
> >>executing
> >>the fax extension in the dialplan.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I am using the same software versions, but don't have Zap channels.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>The fax part of the dialplan is pretty simple.  The incoming call
> >>is
> >>already answered by this point:
> >>
> >>exten => fax,1,RxFax(/tmp/fax.tif)
> >>exten => fax,2,Hangup
> >>
> >>
> >
> >This should be enough.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>I do get files in /tmp called fax-[tr]x-audio-*, but no tif...
> >>The console output follows.  I don't really know what any of it
> >>means...
> >>Can anyone give me a hand getting this working?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Files like /tmp/fax-[tr]x-audio-* are just audio logs for debug.
> >LOG_FAX_AUDIO in ./src/t30.c is the trigger for this debugging.
> >
> >It is not related to your problem, but files used as argument to
> >txfax() are left open.
> >
> >This is not the answer to your problem, I know. But maybe theese
> >remarks are usefull anyway.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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