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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 21:04, geoffrey mendelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoffreymendelson@gmail.com">geoffreymendelson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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. :-)<br>
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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.<br>
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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?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>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).<br>
<br>VoIP have a lot of glitches with FAXes afaik, and I never saw even one VoIP service that actually able to pass FAX properly.<br>You can also try spandsp and not only IAXmodem for FAXing, but 90% (or more) of VoIP installation does not work well with FAXes.<br>
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Looks like for I'll still be keeping my BEZEQ line for the fax machine and modem.<br>
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Geoff.<br>
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geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM<br>
Jerusalem Israel <a href="mailto:geoffreymendelson@gmail.com" target="_blank">geoffreymendelson@gmail.com</a><br>
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