fax and asterisk

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Jan 31, 2010, at 2:32 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
> Those packages should have app_fax, so in most cases you won't need  
> FFA.

I'm not sure what it does. I could not find a lot of documentation on  
it, and hoped to find it for FFA as it is a commercial product. I was  
disapointed, neither has a simple step by step guide to setting it up  
and using it to send and receive faxes. There also seems to be no way  
(or maybe it's a documentation problem) of just having either receive  
a fax as the next sequence number, or to send a file in the queue.

Hylafax does both and has been doing it for a long time, maybe a bit  
better hylafax integration would be useful.


> I'm not sure there's yet FFA for Asterisk 1.6.2, and in any case  
> when it
> is avaialable, the interface for the fax module was changes relatively
> late (after the Ubuntu packages were frozen, IIRC) to move the common
> code of those two modules to a single module in the Asterisk tree.
>

There are several versions of FFA for 1.6 inculding 1.6.2.

My problem was not being able to get it to work after fixing the  
crashes due to the conflict with app_fax, it's much more basic, I  
can't figure out what to do with it in the first place.

Basicly what I want is to be able to dectect a fax tone as an IAX  
client on an incoming call and have it go to a fax queue or be  
forwarded to an IAXmodem.

On the way out, even simpler, let hylafax take a file(s) and convert  
them to the correct format and send them out.

My objective is to replace the function of a dumb fax machine with a  
smart computer. :-)

Thanks,

Geoff.

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