That is not true regarding voice / fax detection with iaxmodem. If you are running zaptel, then let it do the fax detection and have the iaxmodems called from the fax context.
Craig -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mail-lists Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:04 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax ax. > > The downside of rx_fax is that you need to compile it into asterisk. > > The downside of iaxmodem is that (to my knowledge) you can't easilly > implement an auto-answer/detect fax/voice/ auto attendant/voicemail > system. The channel must be dedicated to faxing, and that's that. This > may or may not be an issue for you though. > > The last fax setup I did was for a small 2-person office where they had > an existing fax machine that answered, listened for the remote fax > squawk, if it didn't get it, then it rung the phones daisy-chained to > it, and if they didn't answer it went to answering machine. I > implemented this in asterisk fairly easilly with rx_fax. I'm not sure if > you can do that with iaxmodem. > Another question along these lines : How does everyone one fax detection on a sip channel? The only thing I've found is NvFaxDetect - anyone know of anything else? thanks _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users