I've been playing more with asterisk and fax and wanted to post this
to document what I found and see if anyone else had a better answer.
I'm running Asterisk 1.6.2 under UBUNTU 9.10 using the UBUNTU
packages. I found that the latest for 9.04 was Asterisk 1.4, and had
to upgrade my second computer, which was a small disaster on its own.
I obtained single user free licenses for each system for Free Fax for
Asterisk (FFA). I then installed them on each machine and found that
they caused Asterisk to crash with no information. I tracked that down
to having app_fax autoloaded and I had to mark it as not to be loaded
in modules.conf.
The documentation for FFA is pretty sparse or there are a bunch of
things missing. The documentation that comes with it shows you how to
receive a fax and send one, but there is no simple way to receive a
fax and autoincrement the file name, or pass asterisk a file name to
send.
Since one of my systems has a functioning Hylafax system on it, I
decided to do "plan b". Plan B is to install IAXMODEM and set it up as
a Hylafax modem.
The best instruction page I could find was in Italian, but since I
could read the config files and path names, I figured it out. Hylafax
works well with IAXModem. Hint, make sure to turn off sending of faxes
via the IAX modem by default until it works. :-)
I could not get an IAX connection to detect a fax tone, but that may
have been a configuration problem. Supposedly in 1.6 support for that
was added.
In any case, in order for a FAX to work over VoIP, you need to use the
uLaw or aLaw codecs (IAXMODEM supports uLaw), so it begs the question
if there is a source of incoming Israeli DID's (and outgoing service)
that supports it?
Looks like for I'll still be keeping my BEZEQ line for the fax machine
and modem.
Geoff.
--
geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
Jerusalem Israel geoffreymendel...@gmail.com
New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge
or understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the
situation. i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found
in the Wikipedia.
_______________________________________________
Linux-il mailing list
Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
