> Behalf Of Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] About .call files when the congestion is > on myside > > Am Montag, den 15.10.2007, 11:26 +0300 schrieb Cosmin Prund: > > Hello everyone. > > > > > > > > I’m working on an application that needs to automatically send faxes. > > To send the faxes I create .call files but the .call files mostly > fail > > because my lines are always congested within business hours! Is there > > any trick I can use to give the end user a better chance at actually > > receiving the faxes? > > Are you aware of the MaxRetries, RetryTime and WaitTime in your > call-files? You can set quite large numbers, e.g. a RetryTime of > 15 minutes and a MaxRetries of 32 would try for up to 8 hours. > > Note though that any "answered" call will stop the retry cycle. > This is embarassing for Zap channels that cannot detect remote > ringing / remote busy reliably. As you use ISDN this should not > be a problem
*IF* an unanswered call stops the retry cycle then it's true, I can simply ask for lots of retries. I assumed an unanswered call would NOT stop the retry cycle so I was afraid to set a large value here. I'll have to test what happens if the called line doesn't pick up the phone. > > I already tried using the local channel for dialing (so I can put in > > there a loop that waits for a line to be available) but this doesn’t > > work because I’m sending faxes using chan_capi’s capicommand(sendfax) > > – and that command requires an chan_capi channel, it doesn’t like the > > “local” channel. Besides, looping in the dialplan would probably > > interfere with the “Wait” option in the .call file so that’s a really > > bad solution. > > If you want to do this (looping) use MaxRetries = 0. I do not > understand > why having the remote side connecting to a local extension that does > faxing would not work. Or is it that the CAPI FAX stuff will only work > on unAnswer()ed channels? It's the CAPI stuff not wanting to send over a non-CAPI channel. And it somehow makes sense, because the CAPI stuff uses the DSP's in my ISDN card, so it can't work unless it's on a CAPI channel. Also I expected the capi application to see through the Local channel and notice it really is an CAPI channel! Thanks for your answeres! _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
