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Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:24:23 -0800
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 21:04, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been playing more with asterisk and fax and wanted to post this to > document what I found and see if anyone else had a better answer. > > I'm running Asterisk 1.6.2 under UBUNTU 9.10 using the UBUNTU packages. I > found that the latest for 9.04 was Asterisk 1.4, and had to upgrade my > second computer, which was a small disaster on its own. > > I obtained single user free licenses for each system for Free Fax for > Asterisk (FFA). I then installed them on each machine and found that they > caused Asterisk to crash with no information. I tracked that down to having > app_fax autoloaded and I had to mark it as not to be loaded in modules.conf. > > The documentation for FFA is pretty sparse or there are a bunch of things > missing. The documentation that comes with it shows you how to receive a fax > and send one, but there is no simple way to receive a fax and autoincrement > the file name, or pass asterisk a file name to send. > > Since one of my systems has a functioning Hylafax system on it, I decided > to do "plan b". Plan B is to install IAXMODEM and set it up as a Hylafax > modem. > > The best instruction page I could find was in Italian, but since I could > read the config files and path names, I figured it out. Hylafax works well > with IAXModem. Hint, make sure to turn off sending of faxes via the IAX > modem by default until it works. :-) > > I could not get an IAX connection to detect a fax tone, but that may have > been a configuration problem. Supposedly in 1.6 support for that was added. > > In any case, in order for a FAX to work over VoIP, you need to use the uLaw > or aLaw codecs (IAXMODEM supports uLaw), so it begs the question if there is > a source of incoming Israeli DID's (and outgoing service) that supports it? > As long as you are working either with FXO/PRI you can use what ever supplier you wish to use (I do not recommend HOT, but other then that I do not have any preferences for pro/con on suppliers). VoIP have a lot of glitches with FAXes afaik, and I never saw even one VoIP service that actually able to pass FAX properly. You can also try spandsp and not only IAXmodem for FAXing, but 90% (or more) of VoIP installation does not work well with FAXes. > > Looks like for I'll still be keeping my BEZEQ line for the fax machine and > modem. > > Geoff. > -- > geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM > Jerusalem Israel geoffreymendel...@gmail.com > New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or > understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation. > i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia. > Ido http://ik.homelinux.org/
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