[Asterisk-Users] Small problem with FAX and Modem.

[Martin Pycko]

What if you separate the fax machine channels to diffrent contexts that
don't call application Monitor ? It's for outgoing calls and for incoming
calls if you have certain extensions for faxes you can call StopMonitor
application.

regards
Martin

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Nicholas Romero wrote:

> Is there a good way to detect FAX and Modem on a call that is established
> and then take some sort of action?   What I have is a situation that all
> calls going out through an asterisk system are being recorded. Some of those
> calls are internal fax machines or modems.  When monitoring is turned on is
> causes some funky transmission errors with the modems and sometimes Faxes to
> the point where about 50% of the time the devices just give up.
>
> What I would like to do is if the systems detects a modem or a fax jump to
> another point in the sequence that disables the monitoring.  On inbound
> calls this is more obvious but on outbound calls I am not sure of how to
> accomplish it.
>
> Sort of an aside to this is that after I started recording all the calls I
> have also seemed to introduce some echo somewhere.  The echo was not present
> before monitoring but not sure why it would introduce it either.
>
> Any help appreciated.
> -Nicholas
>
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