[Asterisk-Users] SpanDSP - Still can't send

[Steve Underwood]

Fair point. The FAX apps used to display a note about this when you 
checked their parameters. That seems to have disappeared from the source 
code of both rxfax and txfax. I just put it back in.

Regards,
Steve


Rod Bacon wrote:

>> From my personal experience, the 'weird ideas' come from a lack of 
>
> consistent documentation. The caller option, and the use thereof is 
> not clearly explained anywhere that I can find, and examples of 
> spandsp that are floating around the WiKi (among other places) 
> erroneously leave this option out.
>
> In any case, I still can't send faxes... with or without the option.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Underwood" <steveu at coppice.org>
> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SpanDSP - Still can't send
>
>
>> Where do these weird ideas come from? :-) Why on earth would it 
>> relate to the dial plan? What difference can you imagine the dial 
>> plan might make?
>>
>> If you want txfax to behave as the calling, rather than the 
>> answering, side you need to specify the "caller" option. Don't 
>> confuse caller with sender. The machine which makes a call can be 
>> either the one sending a FAX, or one picking up a FAX by polling. 
>> That is the reason the "caller" option exists.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> Rod Bacon wrote:
>>
>>> My understanding is that this is only required when using it inside 
>>> a dialplan. Eg, the extension answers, then switches to fax 
>>> originator mode.
>>>
>>> For testing, I am using txfax within a sample.call file which I drop 
>>> into /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing, as per latest docs.
>>>
>>> Listening at the receiving fax, the tones "sound" right, although I 
>>> must confess that I don't actually speak "fax".
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any ideas about debugging SpanDSP?
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Svensson" 
>>> <psvasterisk at psv.nu>
>>> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
>>> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:28 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SpanDSP - Still can't send
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Rod Bacon wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> No matter which version of SpanDSP I use, with which version of 
>>>>> libtiff,
>>>>> Asterisk, ... I simply cannot send faxes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Did you remember to add the "caller" option to txfax?
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>