[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk mangling faxes

[Michiel Betel]

Eric Wieling wrote:

>First of all Asterisk does not support ${VARIABLES} as part of the
>extension number.  i.e. exten => ${BLAH},1,NoOp is not valid, but exten
>=> 1234,1,NoOp(${BLAH}) is valid.
>  
>
Huh !?! Astreisk might not support it.... but it seems to work fine in 
my setup, show dialplan expands the variables correctly, and more 
importantly, the correct fax port is selected based on the dialled numer...

>Also Asterisk NEEDS the sending fax machine to send standard fax machine
>tones (CNG, I think) for it to be detected.  When you send a fax the fax
>machine starts sending tones as soon as the call is dialed.  Asterisk
>listens for these tones and if it hears them it will route the call to
>exten => fax,1,Blah if such an extension exists.
>
>  
>
Yep, but if you don't have a fax extension defined it will only tell you 
it detected a fax tone but won't act on it... problem with using the fax 
extension is that it makes it harder to support more then one fax machine.

>As I understand it some (many?) fax modems do not send the required tone
>when making a fax call.
>
>On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 10:47, Jim Sneeringer wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm having the same symptoms using X100P's, TDM400P's and WinFax, and have
>>and have had no luck correcting it. I don't have a standalone fax machine to
>>test with.
>>
>>Does anyone know if this a problem whenever faxes are sent and received with
>>a modem, or is it specifically WinFax? Is there any other way to accomplish
>>the goal of computer faxing with Asterisk?
>>
>>Jim
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
>>[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Bisker, Scott
>>(7805)
>>Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 8:50 AM
>>To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>>Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk mangling faxes
>>
>>Michiel,
>>
>>Are you using WinFax? or one of the Products Based on Winfax?  I've seen
>>this on all of our WinFax Stations, but none of our standalone Fax machines.
>>
>>-sb
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
>>[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of michiel betel
>>Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:40 AM
>>To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk mangling faxes
>>
>>
>>Hi list,
>>
>>Faxes come in over an E1 line  (on an TE410P) here and then are sent to 
>>an analog fax machine attached to a T1 (also on the TE410P) & 
>>channelbank (CAC1).
>>Problem is that almost all faxes we send out and receive are mangled... 
>>either only halve pages or very stretched text etc.
>>Setup in extensions.conf is just:
>>
>>exten => ${NN_FAX},1,Answer
>>exten => ${NN_FAX},2,Dial(Zap/49,80)
>>exten => ${NN_FAX},3,Hangup
>>
>>echocancel is off for Zap/49 since the path is TDM only....
>>
>>Any pointers to where to look??
>>
>>Thanks, Michiel
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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