[Asterisk-Users] chan_capi and bristuff

[Armin Schindler]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Michiel van Baak wrote:
> On 23:11, Thu 26 Oct 06, Armin Schindler wrote:
> <snip></snip>
> > chan-capi-cm (chan-capi.org) is a complete rewritten version of chan-capi 
> > with more features and as far as I can tell, much more stable.
> > 
> > You do faxing with chan-capi 0.3.5? But this isn't faxing via CAPI, right?
> > As far as I know, chan-capi 0.3.5 does not support CAPI faxing.
> 
> You are correct. chan-capi 0.3.5 does not support faxing out
> of the box. But there's a patch out there that fixes this.
> It will add CapiAnswerFax(). This function saves a .sff
> (structured fax file) stream to disk which you can run
> through sfftobmp and stuff. We create PDF files with some
> commandline tools and it's rock stable (2 years without a
> missed/corrupted fax on a system that takes like 10 to 15
> faxes a week)
> Because it's working and we really believe in "if it aint
> broken dont fix it" we did not look into chan-capi-cm.

This feature provides chan-capi.org for a long time and since version 0.7
you can send faxes too.

> <offtopic>
> My personal view on things: avoid PSTN/ISDN connections
> where possible and go with ITSP services. sangoma, quadbri,
> capi, tdm,... they all caused headaches where IAX simply
> works. Off course faxes wont work really good with ITSP but
> most of them have fax2email and email2fax.
> This is from a viewpoint of office PBX integration etc, not
> from ITSP viewpoint
> </offtopic>

I don't agree here. I have a few servers running with chan-capi.org and
Eicon DIVA Server cards.... no problems at all.

Armin