[Asterisk-Users] * and Fax
Alex Barnes
abarnes at ubiquitysoftware.com
Wed Sep 29 04:31:04 MST 2004
I have only started to "play" with * over the last couple of weeks so you will have to forgive any newbisms or mistakes on my part. :-)
It seems to me (or at least in my idea of a utopian office) that the end goal should be to replace all the physical fax machines.
Receiving can currently be done by converting into a TIFF / PDF and then emailing to an address depending on the DDI, right?? This is great but could be improved by sending it straight to a networked printer depending on the DDI (U.S. DID right?) used by the sender. (The company I am doing this feasability study / research for have multiple departments most with a fax machine.
But what would be really cool was if they could send faxs directly from their PC's (Windows).
I am also not really an expert on Linux either (tho learning loads) and if someone knows how this can be done via AGI scripts and what not I would be very interested to know.
cheers
Alex
-----Original Message-----
From: slwatts at winckworths.co.uk [mailto:slwatts at winckworths.co.uk]
Sent: 29 September 2004 12:02
To: jorn at ccl-network.com; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] * and Fax
Hi,
I think this is one area that needs to be developed. I am curently implementing a system for my home so cannot really justify the cost of financially supporting the development of this when all I really need to do is buy a telephone extension lead for my existing fax modem!!!
I am more than willing to devote some testing/documentation time (I am not really a programmer) if that helps.
Faxing is an important facility for many businesses tho, and it would make sense to be able to handle a fax call directly from asterisk to hylafax without having to route it via some analog device on the same machine (eg. pstn -> voip ->fax svr-> email rather than pstn -> voip -> analog line ->fax svr ->email)
Am i barking up the wrong tree or do others also need this functionality?
Sam
Jørn Eriksen <jorn at ccl-network.com> wrote on 29/09/2004 10:35:30:
> Hi all,
>
> I've read a bit lately on Asterisk & Fax issues - I also saw, in some
> notes from Astricon, that the developer of panDSP - Steve Underwood -
> was looking for support (finacial and/or technical). If we are enough
> folks that need/want this (fax for *) we might get him to streamline it
> for a reasonable abount pr head....
>
> Best regards
> Jorn
> ---------------------------------------------
> slwatts at winckworths.co.uk wrote:
>
> >
> > zapata.conf? Must have missed that - but I am not using any analog
> > cards, I am using capi. If this feature dependent on using zapata and
> > compatible hardware then?
> >
> > on a slightly different tack - tried the sipura 3000 last night, has
> > anyone got this working with faxes. Set all the fax detection tones to
> > yes, but it still treats a fax call just like any other voice call :-(
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Sam.
> >
> > Jon Radon <jonr800 at gmail.com> wrote on 28/09/2004 16:52:32:
> >
> > > After you changed the zapata.conf per the wiki... make sure you stop
> > > asterisk, unload your zap drivers, reload them, then start asterisk
> > > again.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: slwatts at winckworths.co.uk <slwatts at winckworths.co.uk>
> > > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:34:33 +0100
> > > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk, Hylafax and T38Modem - help!
> > > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > > <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I know that this may not strictly be an asterisk issue, but if anyone
> > > has any ideas on this prob it would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > I have a working asterisk setup using Suse 9.1, a BT ISDN BRI card
> > > (Fritz?), sipura 3000 and a few cisco 7940's. I wanted to do add
> > > faxing into the equation, so I thought I would try and setup the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > PSTN->asterisk->hylafax->pc
> > >
> > > At the moment asterisk and hylafax are on the same box. I went and
> > > installed t38modem, hylafax, openh323 and so on.... got chan_oh323
> > > compiled and installed.
> > >
> > > I can now dial an extension - it gets routed to t38modem, it picks up
> > > but I hear no modem tones (screeching) just silence. when I dial it
> > > with a fax machine the fax machine just says 'no carrier'. Looking at
> > > the hylafax logs I see t38modem answer but then get 'no carrier'. If I
> > > make t38modem dial an extension all I hear is a
> > > beeep.......beeep......beeep of a fax machine.
> > >
> > > Also when I try to use fax tone detection in my exensions.conf it
> > > doesnt work - the call is always routed to the normal sip device and
> > > not the t38modem (oh323) device. I have followed the examples on the
> > > wiki.
> > >
> > > Am I doing something fundamentally wrong here? Do I also need to load
> > > faxcapi? I have not yet tried using the sipaura 3000 to pick up the
> > > incoming fax call - I will try that later.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
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