[asterisk-users] 1.2 to 1.6 and bristuff

[Klaus Darilion]

Am 12.03.2010 13:17, schrieb Steve Davies:
> Hi,
>
> I am just moving from Asterisk 1.2+bristuff up to 1.6.2, a huge leap
> :) I was wondering if someone could point me at 3 things that I appear
> to have "lost"?
>
> 1) ZapEC(off) - Is there an equivalent dialplan command to request no
> EC on a channel before dialling in DAHDI?
>
> 2) rxfax(file.tiff) - I have found ReceiveFax(), but I am aware that
> much has happened in the faxing stakes recently, is there a good
> starting point to read about how this works in 1.6 with T.38
> passthru/gateways etc?

AFAIK ReceiveFax does work on T.38 and non-T.38 channels, it is 
transparent to the dialplan. ReceiveFax detects if the channels switched 
to T.38 and takes care of it.

T.38 passthrough also works.

T.38 Gatewaying is not supported yet. If you need it you can try the 
patch from the bugtracker:
https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=13405

> 3) Bristuff came with its own version of PickupChan() - Does anyone
> know if native Asterisk supports their Pickup mechanism?

I needed to get rid of PickupChan and thus use Pickup() and the pseudo 
context PICKUPMARK. Works well for me (1.4).

E.g.:
// incoming call
Set(_PICKUPMARK=${EXTEN});
Dial(....);

//pickup call
Pickup(${EXTEN}@PICKUPMARK);

regards
Klaus


> Or perhaps the Bristuff work has been ported to 1.6.2? I could not
> find it anywhere. Tzafrir used to run a GIT repo of that sort of work,
> but I have not dealt with it for so long I have lost the references to
> it :( If necessary, I can re-do the bristuff code that I need for
> 1.6.2, but thought I'd make sure I was not reinventing the wheel.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>