[asterisk-users] Handling multiple fax machines and the fax extension, and general call routing

[Steve Totaro]

You should not have to do this if you setup your contexts and
extensions correctly.  You don't need faxdetect if you are using
dedicated fax DIDs.  The last four digits MUST match what the telco is
sending you in exten=XXXX.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:07 PM, arkda <thrills3k3r at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using two contexts, [internal] and [external] as in the example. There
> are four digit extensions for each fax machine in my [external] context (the
> [external] context is the context in which my PRI terminates) as well as in
> the [internal] context.
>
> I just found that I'm able to 'cheat' slightly. If I capture the ${EXTEN}
> into another variable and simply call that in the fax extension like so:
>
> [external]
> exten => fax,1,Goto(internal,${FAXER},1)
>
> exten => 1000,1,Answer()
> exten => 1000,n,Set(FAXER=${EXTEN})
> exten => 1000,n,Wait(3)
> exten => 1000,n,Goto(internal,1000,1)
>
> --------------------------------
>
> This appears to redirect the call to the appropriate entry under [internal].
> This isn't exactly elegant, but I think it will work. It seems odd to me
> that there isn't a better method of routing calls once they've been routed
> into a catch-all extension such as 's'.
>
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Steve Totaro
> <stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
>>
>> So you have mapped a DID (last four digits) to your DHADI port in the
>> regular extensions context, not the fax context?  What is the CLI
>> output?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve Totaro
>>
>> PS.  Figured I would start with DHADI now.....
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:37 PM, arkda <thrills3k3r at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks for your response Steve. You almost lost me when I saw DAHDI,
>> > that's
>> > going to take some getting used to.
>> >
>> > Using 'n' for the faxes will not work since these fax machines are all
>> > department dependent and they're very territorial.
>> >
>> > In my config I'm using Dial commands as you described in your second
>> > post.
>> > I'm not sure what I could do differently there...?
>> >
>> > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Steve Totaro
>> > <stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
>> >>