[asterisk-users] FAX detection not working

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 08:56:56AM -0400, Joe Acquisto wrote:
> I am having a problem detecting incoming FAX.  TMD22p (tdm400p 2 fxo, 2fxs)
> 
> As I understand it, I must have faxdetect = incoming to enable detection of 
> the fax tone. Then, I must have a [fax] context to pickup the line and send 
> it to whatever extension the FAX device is on.
> 
> In my case, I ask it to answer immediately and do a distinctive ring (r3) to 
> alert that is its a FAX call so no one picks up the line.

Fax detection detects a tone on the line. Hence it only owrks after the
line has been answered.

> 
> however, it seems the FAX tone is not being detected (I know it is being 
> sent), as the normal ring tone is heard.
> 
> I must be misunderstanding  how this works.  Or does not work.

Can you please provide your relevant dialplan snippets and relevant
parts of zapata.conf ?

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