Hello, I have a couple of questions: 1) Before heading off for a bit of vacation, I was having a wierd problem where I was getting more than one call per callfile placed in the outgoing/ spool. I describe it here: http://forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php?t=3455 so far, so good - it's not doing it right now, but what might cause that? 2) app_txfax I need to know if a fax has gone through or not. My reading of txfax seems to indicate that it basically just fails, rather than giving me anything I can work with to try and fail gracefully (letting the user know that things didn't go well). Is that indeed correct? I don't know Asterisk that well, so I may be completely off base:-) What would be the best way to make it interact better with the dial plan so that one could detect if it fails and act accordingly? Set a variable? 3) I'm working on a small, simple email->fax system. Just out of curiosity, what else is out there for Asterisk? I found AsterFax, but it looks a little bit hairy to set up... Thanks! -- Webster srl Sede legale: Via del Seminario, 3 35122 Padova Sede operativa: Via S. Breda, 28 35010 Limena (PD) Tel. +39 049 652527 - Fax +39 049 655297 Email: d.welton@webster.it Visita www.libreriauniversitaria.it
"David N. Welton" <d.welton@webster.it> wrote:> 2) app_txfax > > I need to know if a fax has gone through or not. My reading of txfax > seems to indicate that it basically just fails, rather than giving me > anything I can work with to try and fail gracefully (letting the user > know that things didn't go well). Is that indeed correct? I don't know > Asterisk that well, so I may be completely off base:-) What would be > the best way to make it interact better with the dial plan so that one > could detect if it fails and act accordingly? Set a variable? > > 3) I'm working on a small, simple email->fax system. Just out of > curiosity, what else is out there for Asterisk? I found AsterFax, but > it looks a little bit hairy to set up...You really should consider HylaFAX - www.hylafax.org. It has what you're missing - a fully featured queue manager / scheduler that takes care of retries for you, and notifies the sender of any failures encountered. It can be integrated with Asterisk via analog or digital lines, or by using a software-based modem such as IAXmodem. -Darren
>I thought about using Hylafax, but after looking around a bit, I got the >impression that it's not exactly trivial to integrate it with Asterisk, >and that it will require a dedicated incoming line. Perhaps I'm mistaken?It isn't that bad basically download compile and install the trick is to find the version of HylaFax that will compile clean under your kernel. You need a version that was released about the same time as the vintage of your kernel. IAXmodem works. It provides a virtual modem that interacts with Asterisk via IAX. Otherwise, you need a channel bank that will terminate to some POTS lines and regular modems + free serial ports, but then, any other fax package requires that as well. The big weakness in Hylafax is the client. 90% of the time the client will be under Windows, and your choices are Cypheus, which is pretty and user friendly but slow and crash-y or WHFC which is ugly and nasty but works 100% and has slick features like offline faxing. hth