[asterisk-users] Detected digit 'f'

[Jeff Brower]

Kingsley-

> On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 07:46 -0500, Doug Lytle wrote:
>> Kingsley Tart wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks for the link. I looked at that page but couldn't see how it
>> > helped with my specific issue, unfortunately, though I admit I'm fairly
>> > new to asterisk so I don't fully understand what's going on.
>> >
>>
>> The page gave an indication, as Lee stated, that you'd see this error
>> with fax detection turned on and there was no fax context created.
>>
>> Turning off the fax detection on incoming calls would mean that you'd
>> have to use a dedicated number to route incoming calls to your fax
>> receive code.
>
> Ah OK I see what you mean now.
>
> In our application we do, as you suggest, have dedicated fax numbers
> that route to the fax receive code. We already have fax detection turned
> off in the dahdi config.
>
> I'm now even more baffled by the whole thing, seeing as the "Detected
> digit 'f'" message appears in the log after iaxmodem has already
> answered and it's presumably now talking to hylafax.
>
> I'm sorry to keep asking questions but I'm at my wit's end with this and
> have no idea what to look at next. I do really appreciate your comments.
>
> Any idea what I should look at next? I've double checked the configs and
> they're the same as a different server that is working fine with this.

How do you know for sure fax detection is turned off?  It sounds to me like your changes to the dahdi config file are
being ignored.  Maybe put something in there that should cause an error or something clearly observable, then see
whether that actually occurs.

-Jeff