[asterisk-users] Problem with Free Fax For Asterisk

[Trevor Hammonds]

Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming at digium.com> wrote:
> Trevor Hammonds wrote:
>> I have installed Free Fax For Asterisk 1.6.1_1.0.8 on Asterisk
>> SVN-branch-1.6.1-r194876M and am getting a peculiar error message.
>>
>> Current scenario, while testing, is to receive an inbound fax call via
>> a regular DID and then transfer the call to the internal fax
>> extension.  When I do so, I receive the following error message on the
>> console, several times:
>>
>> WARNING[2895]: chan_sip.c:5369 sip_write: Asked to transmit frame type
>> 64, while native formats is 0x4 (ulaw)(4) read/write = 0x40
>> (slin)(64)/0x4 (ulaw)(4)
>
> WARNING != ERROR :-)

I get that.  Sorry for the misstatement.  :-)

> In spite of that, are there *no* other messages before that which would
> indicate a problem setting up a translation path or similar problems?

The only console messages are related to the FAX setup and the call
transfer event.

New development:  I've assigned an external DID to the fax extension,
and fax calls come in fine, with a strange burst of noise about one
second into the preamble.  However, I am still unable to transfer an
inbound call from another DID to the fax extension.


>> Also, the documentation is a little unclear on one issue.  I would
>> like to know if this version of FFA (1.6.1_1.0.8) will work with
>> Asterisk 1.6.2.
>
> Asterisk 1.6.2 is still in beta, so its APIs are still subject to
> change. FFA for Asterisk 1.6.1 *may* work fine with it, or may not. Once
> Asterisk 1.6.2 reaches the release candidate state, if new FFA modules
> are required then they will be produced and the FFA download selector
> page will be updated to reflect that.


Thanks for the clarification and your assistance.

Sincerely,
Trevor Hammonds