Hi all, I've got a user that has one phone number an wants to be able to us it for both voice and fax. When a fax call comes in, he wants to do some incantation on the keypad and have the call go to the fax machine. As I see it, he has 3 options. 1. (blind?) Transfer it to the fax extension. 2. Use features.conf to create a key sequence, say *2, to dial/transfer to a fax extension. 3. Use fax detect (SIP) to do it automatically. However I'm also using FFA, so I suspect these are mutually exclusive. Does anyone have any insight as to which would work better? TIA, -- Take care and have fun, Mike Diehl.
Why not use AMD (Answering Machine Detect)?
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Subject: [asterisk-users] Transfer to fax
Hi all,
I've got a user that has one phone number an wants to be able to us it for
both voice and fax.
When a fax call comes in, he wants to do some incantation on the keypad and
have the call go to the fax machine.
As I see it, he has 3 options.
1. (blind?) Transfer it to the fax extension.
2. Use features.conf to create a key sequence, say *2, to dial/transfer to
a fax extension.
3. Use fax detect (SIP) to do it automatically. However I'm also using
FFA, so I suspect these are mutually exclusive.
Does anyone have any insight as to which would work better?
TIA,
--
Take care and have fun,
Mike Diehl.
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On 02/24/2012 03:32 PM, Mike Diehl wrote:> Hi all, > > I've got a user that has one phone number an wants to be able to us it for > both voice and fax. > > When a fax call comes in, he wants to do some incantation on the keypad and > have the call go to the fax machine. > > As I see it, he has 3 options. > > 1. (blind?) Transfer it to the fax extension. > > 2. Use features.conf to create a key sequence, say *2, to dial/transfer to a > fax extension. > > 3. Use fax detect (SIP) to do it automatically. However I'm also using FFA, > so I suspect these are mutually exclusive.They are not. Enabling faxdetect should do exactly what you want; it will redirect the call to the 'fax' extension in the current context, and you can then Dial() your FAX machine (or send the call to ReceiveFAX). -- Kevin P. Fleming Digium, Inc. | Director of Software Technologies Jabber: kfleming at digium.com | SIP: kpfleming at digium.com | Skype: kpfleming 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA Check us out at www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org