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

[Steve Totaro]

Echocancelwhenbridged=no should work.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:26 PM, arkda <thrills3k3r at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe that's what I'm missing. I was under the assumption that you had to
> use fax detect if you did faxing due to the echo cancellation, so fax detect
> could shut it off for fax calls.
>
> So with dedicated fax lines, there's no need to use fax detect?
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Steve Totaro
> <stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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:
>> >> >>
>>
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