On Friday 24 February 2012 4:06:19 pm Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > On 02/24/2012 05:00 PM, Mike Diehl wrote: > > On Friday 24 February 2012 3:17:04 pm Mike Diehl wrote: > >> On Friday 24 February 2012 2:39:48 pm Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > >>> On 02/24/2012 03:32 PM, Mike Diehl wrote: > >>>> Hi all, > >>>> > >>>> I've got a user that has one phone number an wants to be able to us it > >>>> for both voice and fax. > >>>> > >>>> When a fax call comes in, he wants to do some incantation on the > >>>> keypad and have the call go to the fax machine. > >>>> > >>>> As I see it, he has 3 options. > >>>> > >>>> 1. (blind?) Transfer it to the fax extension. > >>>> > >>>> 2. Use features.conf to create a key sequence, say *2, to > >>>> dial/transfer to a fax extension. > >>>> > >>>> 3. Use fax detect (SIP) to do it automatically. However I'm also > >>>> using FFA, so I suspect these are mutually exclusive. > >>> > >>> They are not. Enabling faxdetect should do exactly what you want; it > >>> will redirect the call to the 'fax' extension in the current context, > >>> and you can then Dial() your FAX machine (or send the call to > >>> ReceiveFAX). > >> > >> Thank you. Then, that's what I'll do. > > > > On second though, I think my suggestion that FFA and fax detect were > > mutually exclusive stemmed from the idea that a call that was being > > originated/answered/handled by FFA would have it's call disconnected and > > redirected by fax detect. > > > > If this is the case, it changes my dial plan logic, and I'm not sure I > > fully understand what changes I'll need to make. > > > > For all I know, it might even simplify things by isolating all fax > > handling in one block. > > Well, first you should not have faxdetect enabled on outbound channels. > That takes care of the 'originating' part. > > If you have an inbound channel that you *know* you are sending to > ReceiveFAX, then you can just disable faxdetect on that channel before > doing so (this is why we made 'faxdetect' configurable from the > dialplan). Alternatively, you can just let calls that you *know* are > going to go to ReceiveFAX (dedicated FAX DIDs, for example) just 'idle' > in the dialplan listening to silence until faxdetect kicks in and sends > them to ReceiveFAX. > > Note that the usage of FFA is not relevant here; whether you are using > Fax for Asterisk, the free version of it, or res_fax_spandsp, the > behavior and scenarios would be the same.
Very nice. Sounds like I need to add a faxdetect column to my SIP real-time configuration. Once I've done a sip reload or pruned/loaded my user agents, I should be good to go! Didn't know faxdetect was configurable in the dialplan... Pointer to how to do it? BTW, FFA rocks! -- Take care and have fun, Mike Diehl. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
