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

[Carlos Hernandez]

I only suggested that in case someone has managed to receive faxes from 
other remote asterisk machines, or via SIP...?

Otherwise, you're right.

Carlos

William Suffill wrote:

>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.
>
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>On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:13:25 +1200, Carlos Hernandez
><carlosh at linuxservices.co.nz> wrote:
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>>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:
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>>>On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:25:17AM -0500, Rob Fugina wrote:
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>>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>>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.
>>>
>>>
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>>>>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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