[Asterisk-Users] Re: SpanDSP/RxFax help...

[Carlos Hernandez]

About faxing, anyone tried this?

How about instead of sending the fax to a tiff file, dial an FXS 
extension, where you'll have either a dedicated fax machine, or a 
Hylafax-connected modem, so you handle all your faxes though hylafax?

I have hylafax running succesfully, and can send and receive already 
using an external modem.. so, if I plug the modem's phone line to a 
zaptel FXS, I'll be able to do:

exten => fax,1,Dial(Zap/X)
exten => fax,2,Hangup

You could centraly handle faxes on hylafax.. and email the tiffs after 
that...

I'd appreciate your thoughts on this. I'll be trying this later on..

Carlos H.


Stefan Tichy wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:25:17AM -0500, Rob Fugina wrote:
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>>I'm using the latest Asterisk from CVS, SpanDSP 0.0.1k, and the
>>latest
>>app_rxfax.c (as mirrored by friendly list members recently), and
>>libtiff
>>3.5.7.  Asterisk is detecting the fax signal properly, and
>>executing
>>the fax extension in the dialplan.
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>I am using the same software versions, but don't have Zap channels.
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>>The fax part of the dialplan is pretty simple.  The incoming call
>>is
>>already answered by this point:
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>>exten => fax,1,RxFax(/tmp/fax.tif)
>>exten => fax,2,Hangup
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>This should be enough.
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>>I do get files in /tmp called fax-[tr]x-audio-*, but no tif...
>>The console output follows.  I don't really know what any of it
>>means...
>>Can anyone give me a hand getting this working?
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>Files like /tmp/fax-[tr]x-audio-* are just audio logs for debug.
>LOG_FAX_AUDIO in ./src/t30.c is the trigger for this debugging.
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>It is not related to your problem, but files used as argument to
>txfax() are left open.
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>This is not the answer to your problem, I know. But maybe theese
>remarks are usefull anyway.
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