Hi list, I installed iaxmodem and Hylafax to see how it compares to rx/txfax; so far I had 0 failure in my limited testing with a Philips HFC21 fax machine that failed very often with txfax (same test platform, with spandsp-0.0.2xxx). So congratulation and thanks for this work ! (maybe some of the improvement is due to newer spandsp used in iaxmodem) Now I would like to use iaxmodem in a "fax polling" application:the customer calls the asterisk server from a fax machine, answers a few questions through an IVR, then a script generates a file (tiff or whatever) based on the customer's input, and the fax is transmitted on the customer's channel. With txfax it is straightforward. With iaxmodem, the only way I found is to send both calls to a meetme room: the customer hears a message/music while the fax is processed by Hylafax, and then iaxmodem is bridged to the caller's channel. It seems to work in my very limited testing, but I'm a bit worried about degradation going through the meetme pseudo-channel, which would result in less reliability. What do you think about reliability? Is there a better way? Thanks, -- Jean-Denis Girard SysNux Syst?mes Linux en Polyn?sie fran?aise http://www.sysnux.pf/ T?l: +689 483 527 / GSM: +689 797 527
Jean-Denis Girard wrote:> Hi list, > With txfax it is straightforward. With iaxmodem, the only way I found is > to send both calls to a meetme room: the customer hears a message/music > while the fax is processed by Hylafax, and then iaxmodem is bridged to > the caller's channel. It seems to work in my very limited testing, but > I'm a bit worried about degradation going through the meetme > pseudo-channel, which would result in less reliability. What do you > think about reliability? Is there a better way? > > > Thanks,Humm, no reply... :( Did I miss something obvious or is there no solution ? I found app_bridge on the bug tracker (http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=5841), which seems what I need, but doesn't seem ready for production yet. Comments please :) Thanks, -- Jean-Denis Girard SysNux Syst?mes Linux en Polyn?sie fran?aise http://www.sysnux.pf/ T?l: +689 483 527 / GSM: +689 797 527
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 10:43 -1000, Jean-Denis Girard wrote:> Hi list, > > I installed iaxmodem and Hylafax to see how it compares to rx/txfax; so > far I had 0 failure in my limited testing with a Philips HFC21 fax > machine that failed very often with txfax (same test platform, with > spandsp-0.0.2xxx). > > So congratulation and thanks for this work ! > (maybe some of the improvement is due to newer spandsp used in iaxmodem) > > Now I would like to use iaxmodem in a "fax polling" application:the > customer calls the asterisk server from a fax machine, answers a few > questions through an IVR, then a script generates a file (tiff or > whatever) based on the customer's input, and the fax is transmitted on > the customer's channel. > > With txfax it is straightforward. With iaxmodem, the only way I found is > to send both calls to a meetme room: the customer hears a message/music > while the fax is processed by Hylafax, and then iaxmodem is bridged to > the caller's channel. It seems to work in my very limited testing, but > I'm a bit worried about degradation going through the meetme > pseudo-channel, which would result in less reliability. What do you > think about reliability? Is there a better way?Don't assume that we read this list every 5 secs.... I haven't read the mailing list since last week.... In any case, you have two options: 1) Do it with meetme like you do now... 2) Just transfer the call to iaxmodem.... eg: exten => s,1,GenerateFax exten => s,2,txfax(somefax) convert to: exten => s,1,TellHylafaxWhatFaxToSend exten => s,2,Dial(IAX2/iaxmodem) Then, hylafax should answer and send the requested fax..... Or maybe I'm missing something... Regards, Adam