Jeff Herring wrote:
would you care to share with the list your installation procedure
and configuration files associated with your iaxmodem and hylafax
installation alongside asterisk?
Sure! Some things, I'm sure, could use improvement, but this is working
for me:
Get iaxmodem: https://sourceforge.net/projects/iaxmodem
You need libiax2 and spandsp-0.0.3 (yes, the devel one not the other
installed. Both are included in iaxmodem (in the lib directory),
however I grabbed a slightly newer spandsp-0.0.3 from the spandsp site.
Make sure spandsp and libiax2 are found by your system (usually by doing
a 'ldconfig').
Build and install iaxmodem.
iaxmodem wants a config file at /etc/iaxmode-cfg.something. Mine looks
something like:
# cat /etc/iaxmodem-cfg.ttyIAX
device /dev/ttyIAX
port 4569
refresh 60
server YOUR.SERVER.IP.HERE
peername iaxmodem
secret YOUR_SECRET_HERE
cidname John Doe
cidnumber 8005551212
codec slinear
swapbytes true
Now, create an entry for the iax channel in your Asterisk config. Mine
looks something like this (in iax.conf):
[iaxmodem]
type=friend
username=iaxmodem
secret=YOUR_SECRET_HERE
context=faxout
host=dynamic
auth=md5,plaintext,rsa
Notice that the context is 'faxout' in my extensions.conf. Here's what
the relevent contexts are in my extensions.conf:
[fax]
exten => s,1,Dial(IAX2/iaxmodem)
[faxout]
exten => _.,1,Dial(Zap/g2/${EXTEN})
Notice I also have 'fax' which is incoming. That's a context for my zap
channel (a dedicated fax line). From zapata.conf:
group = 2
faxdetect=both
faxdetect=incoming
faxdetect=outgoing
faxdetect=yes
rxgain=0.0
txgain=0.0
context=fax
channel => 4
OK, what this all does thus far: It sets up a serial port, /dev/ttyIAX
in this case, which looks like a fax-modem that is connected to the
provided iax channel. You can point minicom at it and play with it if
you want. Calls coming into Zap-4 will automaticly go to iaxmodem and
'ring' on the /dev/ttyIAX serial device. Faxes going out on iaxmodem
automatically go our on the same Zap channel (although doesn't have to).
Now, run iaxmodem (e.g. "iaxmodem ttyIAX"), after you've already got
asterisk going, to get it registered. Make sure it registers and things
look OK (iax2 show peers). You could even try to call it or dial out w/
minicom (using /dev/ttyIAX as the modem device).
Now, you can set up hylafax. I installed from RPM, which was pretty
easy following the directions. Run through its set up and get the email
addresses and those relevent things set. Instead of setting up a new
modem config, however, I edited and then copied the supplied one out of
the iaxmodex distro (config.ttyIAX).
Get hylafax going (/etc/rc.d/init.d/hylafax start).
Now, here's the only stumbling block that I had: In order for things to
work, faxgetty needs to be running! The hylafax service doesn't do this
for you, you need to set it up yourself. The easiest way is to add it
to your /etc/inittab. I added it to mine like this (the new line is the
last here, the rest were already there and included for context):
# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
7:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyIAX
You may need to restart or 'telinit q' or something to get the changes
noticed by init.
Now you can try sending and receiving faxes. For fun, I created a new
account on the Asterisk server and put a .procmailrc file there which
passes emails to that account to hylafax:
SUBJECT=`formail -xSubject:`
:0 c
* ^Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|/usr/bin/faxmail -d $SUBJECT
How it works: send a mail to the account and in the subject line put
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and it will fax the email to 555-1234 with 'attn Joe' on
the cover page. Slick... although it seems to take more work to convert
non-text (e.g. images), which I haven't attempted yet.
OK, so there's the crash course. I hope it helps.
Phil
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