[asterisk-users] Transfer to fax

Mike Diehl mdiehl at diehlnet.com
Fri Feb 24 16:17:04 CST 2012


On Friday 24 February 2012 2:39:48 pm Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> On 02/24/2012 03:32 PM, Mike Diehl wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've got a user that has one phone number an wants to be able to us it
> > for both voice and fax.
> > 
> > When a fax call comes in, he wants to do some incantation on the keypad
> > and have the call go to the fax machine.
> > 
> > As I see it, he has 3 options.
> > 
> > 1.  (blind?) Transfer it to the fax extension.
> > 
> > 2.  Use features.conf to create a key sequence, say *2, to dial/transfer
> > to a fax extension.
> > 
> > 3.  Use fax detect (SIP) to do it automatically.  However I'm also using
> > FFA, so I suspect these are mutually exclusive.
> 
> They are not. Enabling faxdetect should do exactly what you want; it
> will redirect the call to the 'fax' extension in the current context,
> and you can then Dial() your FAX machine (or send the call to ReceiveFAX).

Thank you.  Then, that's what I'll do.

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Take care and have fun,
Mike Diehl.



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