[asterisk-users] Handling multiple fax machines and the fax extension, and general call routing

[Steve Totaro]

No faxdetect is for sharing lines with voice and fax.  Never used it myself...

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Steve Totaro
<stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
> Echocancelwhenbridged=no should work.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:26 PM, arkda <thrills3k3r at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe that's what I'm missing. I was under the assumption that you had to
>> use fax detect if you did faxing due to the echo cancellation, so fax detect
>> could shut it off for fax calls.
>>
>> So with dedicated fax lines, there's no need to use fax detect?
>>
>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Steve Totaro
>> <stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> You should not have to do this if you setup your contexts and
>>> extensions correctly.  You don't need faxdetect if you are using
>>> dedicated fax DIDs.  The last four digits MUST match what the telco is
>>> sending you in exten=XXXX.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Steve Totaro
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:07 PM, arkda <thrills3k3r at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > I'm using two contexts, [internal] and [external] as in the example.
>>> > There
>>> > are four digit extensions for each fax machine in my [external] context
>>> > (the
>>> > [external] context is the context in which my PRI terminates) as well as
>>> > in
>>> > the [internal] context.
>>> >
>>> > I just found that I'm able to 'cheat' slightly. If I capture the
>>> > ${EXTEN}
>>> > into another variable and simply call that in the fax extension like so:
>>> >
>>> > [external]
>>> > exten => fax,1,Goto(internal,${FAXER},1)
>>> >
>>> > exten => 1000,1,Answer()
>>> > exten => 1000,n,Set(FAXER=${EXTEN})
>>> > exten => 1000,n,Wait(3)
>>> > exten => 1000,n,Goto(internal,1000,1)
>>> >
>>> > --------------------------------
>>> >
>>> > This appears to redirect the call to the appropriate entry under
>>> > [internal].
>>> > This isn't exactly elegant, but I think it will work. It seems odd to me
>>> > that there isn't a better method of routing calls once they've been
>>> > routed
>>> > into a catch-all extension such as 's'.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Steve Totaro
>>> > <stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> So you have mapped a DID (last four digits) to your DHADI port in the
>>> >> regular extensions context, not the fax context?  What is the CLI
>>> >> output?
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks,
>>> >> Steve Totaro
>>> >>
>>> >> PS.  Figured I would start with DHADI now.....
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:37 PM, arkda <thrills3k3r at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> > Thanks for your response Steve. You almost lost me when I saw DAHDI,
>>> >> > that's
>>> >> > going to take some getting used to.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Using 'n' for the faxes will not work since these fax machines are
>>> >> > all
>>> >> > department dependent and they're very territorial.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > In my config I'm using Dial commands as you described in your second
>>> >> > post.
>>> >> > I'm not sure what I could do differently there...?
>>> >> >
>>> >> > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Steve Totaro
>>> >> > <stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
>>> >> >>
>>>
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