asterisk users - Apr 2005 - Outgoing faxes with chan_capi?

Hi all,

Does anyone know of a way to send faxes over CAPI?

I'm using asterisk on Debian sarge on 2.4.27, with 2 Fritz! PCI cards
and the appCapiFax patch. Incoming faxes work perfectly with
capiAnswerFax (I have dedicated numbers so I don't have to detect fax
calls). But I can't find any method of _sending_ with CAPI, other than
this comment on the list a few weeks back:

[snip]
In this little corner of the world [Australia] we pay $400 for a
single port Fritz! card
that costs $30 anywhere else and have to use chan_capi.  Chan_capi is ok for
basic service but is not supported by spandsp or AMP, and only partially
supported by FOP.
[/snip]

And since most fax systems use spandsp (including app_txfax, which
would be my first choice) it doesn't seem to leave many options.

The wiki comments mention CapiSuite, but that appears to be a
completely separate package to Asterisk, so I'd (I think) need to
fully shut down Asterisk, send the fax, then start it up again? Not
really acceptable, even for a lightly-loaded system like ours
(incoming calls wait for no man).

Thanks in advance,
Andrew

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On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:46:34PM +0800, Andrew Furey
wrote:
> The wiki comments mention CapiSuite, but that appears to be a
> completely separate package to Asterisk, so I'd (I think) need to
> fully shut down Asterisk, send the fax, then start it up again? Not
No, this is not neccessary. If you don't want to install CapiSuite
you may use c2faxsend from the capi4hylafax package (currently have
no Debian up and running - just checked on a SuSE 9.1). If a tiff
file is used it has to be in an appropriate format.


-- 
Stefan Tichy   <asterisk@pi4tel.de>

Andrew Furey <andrew.furey@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know of a way to send faxes over CAPI?
capi4hylafax. With capi you can actually set up a hylafax server to
listen on some MSN or DID, and * for the rest. Both systems will
cooperate nicely.

I have this setup on two debian sarge servers, both of them working
real fine. No need to shutdown * to send or receive faxes, both
systems are configured to use only the MSN's they are attributed. 

<couic>

Cheers,
-- 
R?mi