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

[Rod Bacon]

Thanks Steve, and please don't think I am criticising you or anyone else. 
Everyone who is working on Asterisk and related products are pure legends as 
far as I'm concerned... I wish I could help in some way (I'm not a 
programmer's backside!).




----- 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 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SpanDSP - Still can't send


> 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
>>>>
>
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