Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: Fax, txfax -bizarre thing

2006-01-07 Thread Lee Howard
andrutto wrote: I was wondering why asterisk - great telecommunication program - has such a weak fax support. Because it's a PBX and not a fax server. Use IAXmodem and HylaFAX, and then you have a fax server. http://sourceforge.net/projects/iaxmodem http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/ Lee.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] how to configure iax account for iaxmodem?

2006-01-07 Thread Lee Howard
Bruno Voigt wrote: Hi, I'm running asterisk 1.2.1 and started to play with iaxmodem 0.0.7 running on the same box. I wonder how to setup the iax account correctly so that I may initiate outbound calls via iaxmodem? registration upon iaxmodem startup is okay and I can direct calls to it.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Email2fax big problemo

2006-01-04 Thread Lee Howard
Andrew Nowrot wrote: Few days ago I installed Email2fax application on my Asterisk box. I works but not in 100 %. Sometimes (to be certain quite often) I don't receive the whole fax. My fax machine cuts off transmission in 1/2 or 1/3 of the page. I read about it on a wiki and some user lists

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Email2fax big problemo

2006-01-04 Thread Lee Howard
Andrew Nowrot wrote: Email with attached .pdf file --- Asterisk 1.2 box with qmail, connected to PSTN by ISDN HFC-S card, with a_law codec--- PSTN (ISDN)--- Another Asterisk with the same card and codec --- fax machine connected to Asterisk by Digium card. So... Asterisk - alaw ISDN

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAXmodem, help

2005-12-13 Thread Lee Howard
Miguel Soto wrote: Hi: I am testing IAXmodem+HylaFAX setup on asterisk. I have two * boxes. They can send faxes to each other, it works perfect. But if I register The two boxes into a provider I can't send a fax to each other (my temporal provider is goiax.com). IAXmodem seems to transmit

Re: [Asterisk-Users] iaxmodem

2005-11-30 Thread Lee Howard
: 0ms SCall: 3 DCall: 28158 [127.0.0.1:4569] Remote hangup. -Original Message- From: Lee Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 12:12 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] iaxmodem Miguel Soto wrote

Re: [Asterisk-Users] iaxmodem

2005-11-29 Thread Lee Howard
Miguel Soto wrote: Is the right behavior of the IAXmodem to display Registration completed successfully and remote hangup many times? You'd have to show me an example for me to say for certain, but my guess is that if it looks wrong to you then it probably is wrong. This output should

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAXmodem fax polling

2005-11-29 Thread Lee Howard
Matt Riddell wrote: Colin Anderson wrote: Steve Underwood also informed me about chan_fax (http://www.sofaswitch.org/chan_fax/), I'll have a look. This looks awesome please report back to the list on this if you get it working correctly. What's the idea of this? How does it

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fax sending problems

2005-11-24 Thread Lee Howard
Lee Archer wrote: Nov 24 10:50:15.02: [ 8222]: -- data [1031] Nov 24 10:51:15.01: [ 8222]: MODEM TIMEOUT: writing to modem Nov 24 10:51:15.01: [ 8222]: MODEM WRITE SHORT: sent 1031, wrote 984 Nov 24 10:51:15.01: [ 8222]: SEND end page What's going on with the iaxmodem output (on

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Problems with fax failing when bridged across TDM400Pvers E

2005-11-22 Thread Lee Howard
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: Faxes are designed to work around the noise and other signal problems inherent in analog telephony. VOIP introduces an entirely different set of noise factors that fax machines are frankly ill-equipped to deal with. Jitter and dropped packets are the biggest of these

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAXmodem

2005-11-21 Thread Lee Howard
Miguel Soto wrote: I am trying to configure the IAXmodem/ Hylafax server. I have a question related, where do you define the extension for the fax? In the extensions.conf or iax.conf file? You define the extension in extensions.conf, but you also have to grant access permissions in

Re: [Asterisk-Users] FAX difference IAXModem / Hylafax and spandsp app_rxfax

2005-11-18 Thread Lee Howard
James Armstrong wrote: I was wondering if anyone would know why receiving a fax via an extension - IAXModem - Hylafax would work, but fax - rxfax (spandsp) does not. When I try to use the app_rxfax the fax machine reports a comm error. If I use the IAXModem client connected to Hylafax it

Re: [Asterisk-Users] FAX difference IAXModem / Hylafax and spandsp app_rxfax

2005-11-18 Thread Lee Howard
James Armstrong wrote: Thanks, that helps. What variable (in Asterisk) would I modify if I wanted to tweak one of the CALLERID fields that gets passed? Right now, it is not passing the DID number the fax came in on, it is always passing 's' as the NDID. I think the key is to just not

Re: [Asterisk-Users] FAX difference IAXModem / Hylafax and spandsp app_rxfax

2005-11-18 Thread Lee Howard
Rob McKrill wrote: I am just getting started in the Hylafax stuff and have a dual PRI card I am trying to do this with, but I am going to give IAXmodem a shot as soon as I get the tif to pdf conversion working. HylaFAX should already have the TIFF - PDF conversion stuff built-in.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] FAX difference IAXModem / Hylafax and spandsp app_rxfax

2005-11-18 Thread Lee Howard
Rob McKrill wrote: The TIFF - PDF conversion is working fine, just the mime-encoding/attachment stuff to the email seems to be where i am having issues. I am able to use the existing conversion stuff from the command-line. I have metamail, uuencode, and base64-encode installed, but must be

Re: [Asterisk-Users] FAX difference IAXModem / Hylafax and spandsp app_rxfax

2005-11-18 Thread Lee Howard
James Armstrong wrote: The only problem here is, we are using our normal did numbers that forward to our extensions. Asterisk detects the fax tone and sends it to the exten = fax,1, extension. In this example faxdetect is overwriting the DID. So the trick then would be to somewhere

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAXmodem

2005-11-17 Thread Lee Howard
Lee Archer wrote: Hi, I wonder if you can give me some pointers please. I have hylafax running, I've tested it with a modem off the serial port so I know the install does work, and I've installed IAXmodem to be able to fax out via asterisk. I've set everything up as in the README that comes

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAXmodem

2005-11-17 Thread Lee Howard
Lee Archer wrote: disallow=all allow=ulaw allow=alaw allow=gsm IAXmodem uses slinear. allow=slinear Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com

Re: [Asterisk-Users] receive fax with asterisk

2005-11-16 Thread Lee Howard
Anton Krall wrote: What does iaxmodem do? It provides a soft-modem over an IAX channel. Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com

Re: [Asterisk-Users] receive fax with asterisk

2005-11-16 Thread Lee Howard
See: https://sourceforge.net/projects/iaxmodem/ Lee. Anton Krall wrote: Nice! For Windows I suppose.. Have you tested it with good results? |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of |Lee Howard |Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 1

Re: [Asterisk-Users] receive fax with asterisk

2005-11-16 Thread Lee Howard
Anton Krall wrote: I just read the webpage.. I thought it was something that you could install on Windows to make a virtual printer or something that could send faxes to asterisk and out. Anybody know of such a solution? I read something a while ago but Im more interested in somebody

Re: [Asterisk-Users] receive fax with asterisk

2005-11-16 Thread Lee Howard
Anton Krall wrote: Sounds like a good setup. Will this replace spandsp or how does this setup integrate with that? IAXmodem uses spandsp (the library) but does not use txfax/rxfax. I suppose it works on sending and receveing right? Yes. Lee.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] receive fax with asterisk

2005-11-16 Thread Lee Howard
Jonathan k. Creasy wrote: I am using the libiax2 that I just got out of CVS with cvs checkout libiax2 As the README states (clearly) you must use the libiax2 and the spandsp that come with IAXmodem. Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored

Re: [Asterisk-Users] receive fax with asterisk

2005-11-16 Thread Lee Howard
Then open a tracker case at the iaxmodem site with the build error, and we'll see what we can do. Lee. Rusty Dekema wrote: I can't build the libiax2 that comes with it on my FreeBSD system :(. Unfortunately FreeBSD is not a supported platform. -Rusty On 11/16/05, *Lee Howard* [EMAIL

Re: [Asterisk-Users] open asterisk?

2005-11-14 Thread Lee Howard
Colin Anderson wrote: This is the failing of the open-source business model I disagree. The open-source business model fails when the business revenue is focused upon monetary sales of the (otherwise free) software. The success in open-source business models comes when the business

Re: [Asterisk-Users] open asterisk?

2005-11-14 Thread Lee Howard
BJ Weschke wrote: ABE exists for corporations that say How can we consider implementing open sourced software that has no commercial support and isn't thoroughly tested?. The demand was there for corporations that wanted a commercial package before they went ahead with implementation.. They

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Outbound fax solution

2005-10-28 Thread Lee Howard
Kerry Garrison wrote: Got a client building a system that needs to send out hundreds of faxes per day (not, not junk faxes). We have just implemented an asterisk server for the client for their office and they asked if there was an outbound fax solution that would utilize VOIP providers

Re: [Asterisk-Users] iaxmodem

2005-10-25 Thread Lee Howard
I'll see what I can do about improving the error messages involved with the write error, but that's not going to help your problem here. Until the IAXmodem documentation says otherwise, you *must* install and use the spandsp version that ships with IAXmodem. The only exception to this of

Re: [Asterisk-Users] iaxmodem

2005-10-25 Thread Lee Howard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now the problem is spandsp, If I call from a fax machine it rings 5-6 times and then it goes away (remote hungap) What your HylaFAX modem config file saying for RingsBeforeAnswer? Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation

Re: [Asterisk-Users] iaxmodem

2005-10-25 Thread Lee Howard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The comment below makes me wonder could ttyIAX be configured to answer mgetty? Although I've not tried mgetty with IAXmodem, the intent was to make this possible (for faxing), yes. I have made the mgetty talk to ttyIAX however, as soon as a ring comes into th

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Which asterisk-friendly cards are fax-capable?

2005-10-13 Thread Lee Howard
Craig Guy wrote: I'm trying to figure out what an appropriate deployment model might be. Whether to have iaxmodem installed on the hylafax server with a switched ethernet connection for iax2 to the * server with the PRI, or to have the iaxmodem on the PRI * server and channel the tty comms

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Which asterisk-friendly cards are fax-capable?

2005-10-12 Thread Lee Howard
Tom Rymes wrote: (I would like to be able to receive faxes reliably over our PRI) Until then, however, I still recommend HylaFAX. If your PRI comes in to a TE405P or somesuch then you can pass fax DIDs out through another port on the TE405P and out to a T1 faxmodem (such as a Patton

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Which asterisk-friendly cards are fax-capable?

2005-10-12 Thread Lee Howard
trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote: There is very little info on the sf.net page regarding its capabilities ... Right now that's intentional. I still consider it developer-grade code. That said, I do use it on small production usage, and it's fine there with a few known issues

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Which asterisk-friendly cards are fax-capable?

2005-10-12 Thread Lee Howard
Tom Rymes wrote: On Oct 12, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Lee Howard wrote: Tom Rymes wrote: (I would like to be able to receive faxes reliably over our PRI) Until then, however, I still recommend HylaFAX. If your PRI comes in to a TE405P or somesuch then you can pass fax DIDs out through

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Which asterisk-friendly cards are fax-capable?

2005-10-12 Thread Lee Howard
trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote: Cant iaxmodem work by having asterisk bridge the pri channel as needed (did based routing perhaps) and then have hylafax use iaxmodem as the modem it uses. That should result in no additional hardware, which means testing can happen with little cost to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Which asterisk-friendly cards are fax-capable?

2005-10-12 Thread Lee Howard
trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote: Perhaps Lee can comment on exactly how 'development grade' it really is, perhaps even cite some test cases where people have used it on larger scale operations (ie larger than a home users 1-2 times a month or less). According to sourceforge, there

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Which asterisk-friendly cards are fax-capable?

2005-10-12 Thread Lee Howard
Darren Nickerson wrote: We prefer the Eicon Diva server and Brooktrout TR1034 boards, which are known to work well with HylaFAX since we've had our share of headaches with the 2977's. Well, part of my preference for the 2977s involves my strong dislike for the way that the Diva Servers and

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Which asterisk-friendly cards are fax-capable?

2005-10-12 Thread Lee Howard
Darren Nickerson wrote: I'm curious though, in an earlier message you wrote: Sending is also quite good, however, there are some quirks with the Patton firmware which need to be resolved for me to be completely delighted. Are these issues you refer to just cosmetic 'nice to haves' or do

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Which asterisk-friendly cards are fax-capable?

2005-10-11 Thread Lee Howard
Tom Rymes wrote: Frankly, I would recommend that you forget about trying to fax with Asterisk. Buy a good Multitech analog modem and install HylaFAX. Use the right tool for the job!!! Actually, you can use HylaFAX and Asterisk together. https://sourceforge.net/projects/iaxmodem/ Just

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Which asterisk-friendly cards are fax-capable?

2005-10-11 Thread Lee Howard
Bob Goddard wrote: On Tuesday 11 Oct 2005 22:41, Lee Howard wrote: Tom Rymes wrote: Use the right tool for the job!!! Use a hardware based DSP for faxing not software based. Why is a soft-DSP to be considered any less-capable than hardware ones? The reason why I put

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T.38 Faxing - at astricon ?

2005-09-29 Thread Lee Howard
Roger Schreiter wrote: I think, you agree, that VoIP is somewhat similar to ISDN, as it transports analog audio data in a digitally coded way. Noone doubts, that ISDN is suitable to transport analog fax. Finally the PSTN is 99,9% digital (ISDN/SS7), even if some subscriber lines are still

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T.38 Faxing

2005-09-28 Thread Lee Howard
Roger Schreiter wrote: We are currently testing a commercial fax library with the goal, to implement an IAX client as fax server, in order the send or receive some dozen faxes simultaniously. It is too early to say, if we'll succeed, but we hope so, and thus won't forget faxing through

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T.38 Faxing

2005-09-28 Thread Lee Howard
Roger Schreiter wrote: Do you think, one can connect a hylafax server to iaxmodem? Yes, that's my purpose behind IAXmodem. Well, we will proceed the project anyway, to see, whether it is possible or not. I think that IAXmodem could show you that it is possible without having to go

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fax problem, missing/compressed lines

2005-09-02 Thread Lee Howard
Johan van Tongeren wrote: On my * the faxes in- and outbound are of poor quality. I’m missing some lines. TxFAX and RxFAX don't yet support ECM, and so you're going to miss an occassional line. The frequency will depend upon the quality of the connection between the two endpoints. Lee.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simple Fax question

2005-08-18 Thread Lee Howard
Terry Wilson wrote: Is anyone still working on implementing t.38 support for asterisk? Looking at http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+T.38+Bounty, I'm assuming that it isn't a matter of money being a motivation... T.38 isn't a trivial enhancement, and I think that the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Fax

2005-08-16 Thread Lee Howard
Brian West wrote: Just an FYI http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2005080914234645 Although Groklaw seems to think that these suits are about faxing, I don't think that they really are. See: http://www.hylafax.org/archive/2005-08/msg00107.html Lee.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Fax

2005-08-16 Thread Lee Howard
Brian West wrote: No it is really about faxing. As someone that has first hand knowledge of the case outlined on Groklaw, it is in fact about faxing. Go read the two patents very carefully! If you email it you break 638, if you store it you break 021. How, then, do these patents

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Fax

2005-08-16 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Underwood wrote: That message isn't really well thought out, Sorry, I'll do better next time. :-) Lee. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: RE: Business Edition

2005-07-22 Thread Lee Howard
Aidan Van Dyk wrote: Kevin P. Fleming wrote: The first two statements are true; the third is not. While you can certainly distribute the code you contribute to us via any other means you wish (under any other license you wish, including the GPL), the Digium Asterisk source tree cannot

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: RE: Business Edition

2005-07-22 Thread Lee Howard
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Friday 22 July 2005 12:04, Lee Howard wrote: Well, I'm sure that was an added bonus. :-) Free work and free money. It reminds me of a certain Dire Straits lyric. Yes but are the chicks free? Were there many chicks at Astricon? Lee

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: Business Edition

2005-07-21 Thread Lee Howard
Jay Milk wrote: Who is getting the better end of the deal? Well, Digium, of course. I certainly hope that they've made way more money from Asterisk than I ever expect to save or make. And I certainly expect that Digium has made way more money from Asterisk because they've open-sourced

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: Business Edition

2005-07-21 Thread Lee Howard
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: You seem to be neglecting the amount of work that Digium puts into the Asterisk (and related) products on an ongoing basis that is given to the community at no charge. So at least we agree, then, on what the reasoning is. Digium feels that the community owes it to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: Business Edition

2005-07-20 Thread Lee Howard
Any consultant, business, or person that intends to reliably sustain support and maintainance contracts of software for commercial purposes must have some acceptable level of control over that software. It used to be that Digium controlled all of the commits to the CVS repository. I don't

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SpanDSP+astfax with multiple fax pages

2005-07-18 Thread Lee Howard
Paul van Brouwershaven wrote: HylaFAX can (we ar doing this now), but not with E1 or T1. So you can only send with a maximum 2 channels. (with two default analog modems) HylaFAX can use E1 and T1 fax modems just fine (24 and 30 channels each). Furthermore, HylaFAX also supports multiport

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk/Hylafax = Receive/Send faxes

2005-07-18 Thread Lee Howard
Jian Hong GUAN wrote: Can you tell me how to configure Hylafax + Asterisk in order to be able to receive/send faxes. If you have an incoming T1/E1 line: telco -- T1/E1 -- TE405P/TE410P -- Asterisk -- TE405P/TE410P (another port) -- T1/E1 fax modem -- HylaFAX or: telco -- T1/E1 --

Re: [Asterisk-Users] How does Vonage support fax machines?

2005-07-05 Thread Lee Howard
Deon wrote: My boss is insisting we support fax, and I keep telling him that Fax over IP is very unreliable and not recommended and his immediate come-back is Vonage does it. and it's very hard to figure out how. I don't think Vonage does T.38, the Linksys/Sipura units they're using doesn't

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SpanDSP - Squished Faxes

2005-06-24 Thread Lee Howard
George Pajari wrote: What's a poor user who wants to use Asterisk as a PRI PBX to do? Get a channel bank to support one fax? I don't think so. It's hard to sell Asterisk/Digium as a serious alternative to Nortel with these embarrassments. Yeah, well, right now the only options are to do

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TxFax: can't get a fax to destination (log inside)

2005-06-20 Thread Lee Howard
Marco Parmeggiani wrote: Can someone explain me what's going on and why the receiver of this fax guives up saying communication error? Start tx page 1 EOP: 2f RTN: 4c DCN: fb Disconnecting The receiver says communication error because txfax's response to the receiver's RTN signal was a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TxFax: can't get a fax to destination (log inside)

2005-06-20 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Underwood wrote: TxFAX is doing the right thing, according to the spec. If you don't know how to handle RTN you should disconect. spandsp has not yet been taught how to retrain and retransmit properly. Okay, so it's not an error. It's an unimplemented feature. :-) However, this is

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk forking, Was: Digium Website Update: Asterisk Business Edition

2005-06-13 Thread Lee Howard
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Saturday 11 June 2005 19:51, Lee Howard wrote: I don't think that lack of mindshare completely defines the reasons behind Asterisk fork failures. It places all of the blame on the forkers. I think the truth, though, is that they not only fail due to lack

[Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk forking, Was: Digium Website Update: Asterisk Business Edition

2005-06-11 Thread Lee Howard
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Saturday 11 June 2005 16:10, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote: Personally I dont see a problem with any of this. If digium makes it too difficult to do stuff asterisk *can* be forked unless that is forbidden (because its GPL I didnt bother to look at

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk - fax - spandsp

2005-05-17 Thread Lee Howard
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: Side questions about spandsp... Is it possible to print the fax header like what most faxes do (that is: who is sending the fax, how many pages are included etc...) I'm not talking about printing callerid, often I receive fax from the US

[Asterisk-Users] Re: SpanDSP TXFax and multipage faxes problems (aditional info)

2005-05-16 Thread Lee Howard
Nenad Radosavljevic wrote: OK I see the ponit (although I never said that second page is interrupted - I said that in some combinations of resolutions and TIFF options receiving fax spits another blank sheet of paper beside the clearly received first page). Oh. Well, then that's another

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk - fax - spandsp

2005-05-15 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Underwood wrote: Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: Is there any future support for fax in colours? just wondering, I don't think I've ever used it before anyway :) Priorities: 1. T.38 2. A more complete T.30 3. ECM (which is really a part of 2) 4. Things like colour FAX (which in part

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: SpanDSP TXFax and multipage faxes problems (aditional info)

2005-05-15 Thread Lee Howard
Nenad Radosavljevic wrote: Hi everyone ! I have some aditional info on problem with TXFax and sending multi-page TIFFs. I have made 6 different multi-page TIFFs (Group3 1D with fillbits EOL aligned - 3 pages one TIFF in lowres and one in hires, Group3 2D -3 pages againg in both resolutions ,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk - fax - spandsp

2005-05-15 Thread Lee Howard
On Sun, 15 May 2005, Steve Underwood wrote: Lee Howard wrote: The other option to color faxing is JBIG compression. The problem there, is that JBIG is fairly heavily patented still. Thus many fax machines just aren't supporting it yet. Thanks Lee. I found that helpful, except

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: SpanDSP TXFax and multipage faxes problems (aditional info)

2005-05-15 Thread Lee Howard
Nenad, You said that the second page was terminating at some point after the start of the fax image. There is no handshaking going on after page image data starts. Because txfax does not currently support ECM the only reason why a page of image data would terminate prematurely is because the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: SpanDSP TXFax and multipage faxes problems (aditional info)

2005-05-15 Thread Lee Howard
On Sun, 15 May 2005, Lee Howard wrote: Because txfax does not currently support ECM the only reason why a page of image data would terminate prematurely is because the receiver detected a carrier drop when there wasn't one. I'm sorry, this is a bit to broad of a statement. I suppose

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Can Asterisk do the following for me ?

2005-04-24 Thread Lee Howard
Asking someone to spend eleven times more money on a hardware purchase ($220 vs $20) as a gesture of good will is expecting a bit much, I'd say. Certainly I can understand that Digium doesn't stand to make much money selling X100Ps at $10 each, and I can certainly understand them choosing to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and HylaFAX integration

2005-04-05 Thread Lee Howard
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Gavin Hamill wrote: Has anyone done work on this topic? I guess it depends what you mean by integration. We have an 8-line fax system using a Diva Server card that I'd like to get working using one of the kapejod's QuadBRI adapters :) I successfully run a HylaFAX

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T.38 fax summary

2005-02-27 Thread Lee Howard
Hello Steve. It's an excellent read. In two places you mention that V.34-Fax is 28,800 bps. Actually, V.34-Fax has speeds ranging from 2400 baud to 33600 baud all using V.34. And, while most V.34 connections are going to not probably be more than 28,800 bps, I have seen sustained analog V.34

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T.38 fax summary

2005-02-27 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.02.27 04:26 Rich Adamson wrote: Back in the olden days, I recall several modem vendors bundling PC fax software with their products. All of those old Win v3.1 apps created a fax file (eg, pdf or otherwise) that could be distributed via email. Well, I don't remember any of them doing PDFs.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T.38 fax summary

2005-02-27 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.02.27 08:34 Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Hi, I read it and found it very enlightening. I do have one question regarding Modems don't like relativity. It says modems need a constant delay; is there a limit to what it can handle. For example, would it be possible to configure a jitterbuffer

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T.38 fax summary

2005-02-27 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.02.27 09:30 Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 09:10:48AM -0800, Lee Howard wrote: Fax cannot handle a one-second delay. As Steve mentions in the article, per-spec fax has some timings (particularly silence in direction switching) set at 75 ms +/- 20 ms. So

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T.38 fax summary

2005-02-27 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.02.27 10:36 Rich Adamson wrote: Is it at all realistic to assume that HylaFax could coexist with Asterisk on one box? Yes, you could have both Asterisk and HylaFAX running on the same box. HylaFAX does not require a lot of resources (CPU, RAM, HDD) for small deployments. I've had

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T.38 fax summary

2005-02-27 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.02.27 11:28 Jon Gabrielson wrote: You wouldn't happen to know how to do this would you? I currently have a box with both hylafax and asterisk installed. asterisk handles the dedicated voice lines over a t100p and hylafax handles the dedicated fax lines over a 4port serial card with

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T.38 fax summary

2005-02-27 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.02.27 22:20 Jon Gabrielson wrote: I have some extra FXS ports on my channel bank that I could plug the modems into, but is asterisk's fax support good enough for a production system? Everything I seem to read seems to state that asterisk fax detection and fax send/receive support is still

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T.38 fax summary

2005-02-25 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.02.25 05:53 Rich Adamson wrote: Steve Underwood, Would you mind summarizing where/how T.38 functions, and maybe how it compares to the analog fax environment for the asterisk-users arhives? I don't mean to speak for Steve, so I hope that Steve will still reply if he chooses to, but I like

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Using Hylafax and Digium T100P

2005-02-20 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.02.16 18:57 Darren Nickerson wrote: Granted the Patton 2997 is limited to 14,400 maximum This is off-topic for this thread, but the Patton 2977 does support V.34-Fax (speeds 2400 through 33600 baud), at least in recent firmware revisions. However, you are correct in that the card

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Using Hylafax and Digium T100P

2005-02-16 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.02.16 09:00 Brian M. Arlinghaus wrote: My problem is that the 23 channels are going into asterisk. It seems that there is no way to pick off a couple of them and use them for faxes. Basically, I have 23 phone lines and can't use them for faxing. You could always run another T100P into a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Using Hylafax and Digium T100P

2005-02-16 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.02.16 11:20 Brian M. Arlinghaus wrote: You could always run another T100P into a HylaFAX-run T1 fax modem. That way you can use your T1 for faxing. Could you explain a litter further? Thanks. Well, you can do something like this: T1 -- TE405P(1) -- Asterisk -- TE405P(2) -- Patton 2977

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fax and PRI

2005-01-19 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.01.19 01:39 tim panton wrote: My options include; 1) get a basic fax machine and plug it into a (iaxy/sipura?) ATA. Configure the ATA to do alaw so asterisk doesn't have to do any transcoding and hope it works. 2) use spandsp on my asterisk system and add suitable print queues 3) get

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fax and PRI

2005-01-19 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.01.19 17:06 Jon Radon wrote: I use a Multi-Tech Multimodem ZPX and a Sipura SPA-2000 along with Hylafax. On the Asterisk end I'm using X100P's. This has worked flawlessly for me thus far. Some tips of my success. 1.) Fax detect on the Sipura breaks faxing. Strange, I know. 2.) Tuning

Re: [Asterisk-Users] spandsp and app_txfax

2005-01-18 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.01.18 08:02 Nir Simionovich wrote: Well, Nothing much, so I upped the logger.conf to include debug in messages log, in addition, here is the tiffinfo of the file I want to fax: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# tiffinfo /tmp/image.tiff TIFF Directory at offset 0x433a Subfile Type: (0 = 0x0)

Re: [Asterisk-Users] fax over tdm400p

2005-01-18 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.01.18 09:03 Jean-Denis Girard wrote: Andrew Kohlsmith a écrit : I can now send faxes just fine, but I cannot for the life of me get reliable fax reception, nor can I get the stamp machine to work well. I took out the T100P so there was only one TDM card in the machine (in case there

Re: [Asterisk-Users] External fax modem takeover of fxo?

2005-01-18 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.01.18 08:36 Walt Reed wrote: I'm thinking of hooking up the faxmodem to the line directly, then hooking the X100P to the modem's Phone port. From what I've been able to determine, Asterisk would be most unhappy if you did that. On X100Ps that phone jack/port needs to simply be ignored.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] External fax modem takeover of fxo?

2005-01-18 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.01.18 10:32 Walt Reed wrote: Yep - I read about all those problems. I have heard very few sucess stories of running fax through * at all, which is why I was trying to find a way to avoid it. If I can get * to do the fax detection only and then kick off the external process that should be

Re: [Asterisk-Users] spandsp and app_rxfax (alternative topic: t38modem)

2005-01-07 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.01.07 08:13 Ryan wrote: H. Did I just ask in the wrong forum, or has _nobody_ experienced image corruption using app_rxfax that was NOT due to using the wrong version of libtiff? Oh, you can get image corruption on any non-ECM fax, and that doesn't have anything to do with anything

Re: [Asterisk-Users] spandsp and app_rxfax (alternative topic:t38modem)

2005-01-07 Thread Lee Howard
On 2005.01.07 09:42 Jeff wrote: It is my speculation that the 'cutoff' problem was related to some type of 'line noise' and that others successfully using the spandsp code _might_ be using T1/E1 rather than analog lines (1FL) but when I started testing using an old Fax machine plugged into a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TDM120 card?

2004-12-20 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.12.19 16:12 Steven Critchfield wrote: I also despise those who wish to compete with Digium with exactly the same hardware Digium sells Well, not only is it legally within the bounds of the GPL licensing on the Zapata hardware, but I honestly expect that this kind of competition is what

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TDM120 card?

2004-12-19 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.12.19 10:17 Eric Wieling aka ManxPower wrote: Personally I don't really approve of a company just taking Digium's design and cloning it. Huh? To what hardware are you referring? Certainly you wouldn't be indicating that the GPL only permits one licensee.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and HylaFax

2004-12-17 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.12.17 05:42 Sergio Serrano wrote: Hi all, again I try configure Hylafax with asterisk. I would like configure Asterisk in the next way: 1)An incoming fax go into through X100P 2)Asterisk detects Fax and redirect fax to Hylafax Is it possible? Yes, but it may not be

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SCRIPT: Fax Remvoal Please Call: 1-800...

2004-12-09 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.12.09 17:56 Joseph wrote: At time to time I receive some junk faxes from some advertising companies that play smart and don't provide any TSI number so I can not bock them by the number in Hylafax. Do they not provide Caller*ID either? Despite calling their Fax Removal Service 1-800-...

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SCRIPT: Fax Remvoal Please Call: 1-800...

2004-12-09 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.12.09 18:19 Joseph wrote: I think it is illegal to send faxes with-out any identifier like caller ID. I think the historic US regulations (FCC code) have required all fax sending devices to include an identification line (header or tagline) within the first inch or so at the top of the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Faxing..not 100%

2004-12-07 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.12.07 10:06 Matthew Boehm wrote: Here is the setup: POTS - PRI - Asterisk - ATA (Fax) The ATA is set to only 711. Asterisk's sip.conf sets this device to only 711. Yet, faxing works less than 50% of the time. I have a couple of different fax arrangements with Asterisk. POTS - Asterisk

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Email to Fax?

2004-12-06 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.12.04 18:24 Jason Lixfeld wrote: I've read about Fax to Email, but is there such a beast as email to fax? If not, what do people use to take care of outbound faxing? Email-to-fax is popular for some types of businesses. See the HylaFAX project (http://www.hylafax.org) for some good

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Little off topic

2004-11-19 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.11.19 07:47 Eric Hall wrote: My question is will a Wildcard T100P work in a Hylafax server? This question would be best fielded on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, but the simple answer to your question is, no. The real answer to your question, though is this: PRI - T100P -

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Broadvoice asterisk patch

2004-11-11 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.11.11 14:31 Adam Goryachev wrote: Did they contribute to the codebase, or did they just write/release a patch without contributing to the asterisk codebase? ie, have they submitted the patch to the bug tracker *AND* signed the disclaimer. In most other open-source projects there is no

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fax detection in voip channel

2004-10-21 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.10.21 14:49 usedcanon wrote: Hi All, Is it possible to detect an incomming fax just as it is possible with Answer on a Zap channel. If not do others find the possibility of this enhancement useful too? Doing fax over SIP or IAX would be a frustrating effort, and a complete waste of time,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] [OT] HylaFAX and DID

2004-10-15 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.10.15 12:44 Michael Welter wrote: Does anyone have experience with a Fax Modem that accepts the DID/DNIS number? MultiTech MT5634ZBA-DID supports analog DID. Eicon Diva Server supports digital lines w/DID. Patton DataFire supports digital lines w/DID. Does HylaFAX support this modem?

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