-Re: [Asterisk-Users] help with detecting fax.---fixed.

[Ariel Batista]

---- Original Message ----
From: Ariel Batista

>I have Spandsp working fine. Asterisk sees a fax on the zap port and
redirects the call to the fax-in area. 

>> This works if I have a simple dialing rules that goes answers first
>> and waits 10 secs then goes to the next item. >If it hears a fax it
>> goes to the right place. Here is a sample that works.  Also you need
>> to have the fax lines in >the context that all calls from the pstn
>> side come in. In my case it was inbound.    
> 
>> [incoming]
>> exten => 2019,1,Goto(test,s,1)
>> [test]
>> exten => s,1,answer
>> exten => s,2,wait(5)
>> exten => s,3,Macro(stdexten,Sip/101)
> 
>> exten => fax,1,Goto(fax-in,s,1)
> 
>> [fax-in]
> 
> I am adding the notes as what we did to fix this problem in case
> someone else needs these fixes.  Note this problem is due to what I
> feel is a bug in asterisk. But there is a work around. Here you need
> to add an extra line which is not really used. Asterisk will work if
> you add this to it.    
> exten => s,1,NoOp
> exten => s,2,Dial(zap/1)
> 
> Instead of
>> exten => s,1,Dial(Zap/1)
> 
> We now actually have it going to spandsp now and it's working from
> the macro. 
> 
>> But if I use this following macro it just detects the fax then goes
>> to congestion instead of the fax extenstion. [macro-followme]
>> ;
>> ; Standard single line follow me then to voicemail
>> ; $ARG1 first device to dial to. $ARG2 2nd device to dial.
>> ;
>> exten => s,1,Answer
>> exten => s,2,Wait(5)
>> exten => s,3,Dial(${ARG1},20)
>> exten => s,4,Dial(Zap/g1/${ARG2})
>> exten => s,5,Voicemail(u${MACRO_EXTEN})
>> exten => s,104,GotoIf($[${DIALSTATUS}=CHANUNAVAIL]?105:107)
>> exten => s,105,Dial(Zap/g1/${ARG2})
>> exten => s,106,Voicemail(b${MACRO_EXTEN})
>> exten => s,107,Voicemail(u${MACRO_EXTEN})
>> ;
>> I am calling it with this setup.
>> 
>> exten => 2019,1,Macro(followme,Sip/101,16502468900)

I have fixed the problem. See notes below.