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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] Asterisk mangling faxes

2004-03-10 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.03.10 10:18 Jim Sneeringer wrote: Do you know if there is other fax software that supports ECM? Please forgive me for butting in on this thread, but I can't resist plugging HylaFAX. Almost all fax software, including your WinFax 7.0, that supports Fax Class 2, Class 2.0, or Class 2.1

[Asterisk-Users] Intel 537EP chipset, revisited

2004-06-10 Thread Lee Howard
Hello everyone. I hope that this isn't a sore topic, but I've spent a week now reading through everything I could dig up from the archives on this topic, and I'm not yet satisfied with any conclusions presented there. I've also spent a few days hacking on the Asterisk code, trying to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Intel 537EP chipset, revisited

2004-06-11 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.06.11 11:41 Steven Critchfield wrote: You next step really would to be to go looking through the module load function and maybe through some debugging code in there to have it tell you more about what is going on. Luckily enough, if you didn't crash the machine with your module, you can

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Intel 537EP chipset, revisited

2004-06-11 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.06.11 16:15 Chris Glover wrote: Hi, Just a thought, are you using the XT-PIC mode of IRQ address (old style) on the new IO-APIC version that Kernel 2.6.x supports? I found with my Intel 537 modem that it would hang a machine using XT-PIC (admittedly it was IRQ sharing with all the other

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: fax obsoleted? Was: Re: Fax via email

2004-06-14 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.06.14 09:31 Chris Travers wrote: But, let me ask you this. Suppose that I produced PDF forms which could be edited and then uploaded into a drop-box on my web site. This does not address some of the concerns about www/email vs fax, but it does address many of them. You creating a PDF,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TE410P / Eicon PRI

2004-06-18 Thread Lee Howard
If you would rather use HylaFAX instead of spandsp and have $10K to throw around, then may I suggest hiring an Asterisk channel author to write a T.38-supporting channel driver? That way you could just use t38modem with HylaFAX, and you wouldn't need all the duplicate hardware. Lee. On

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TE410P / Eicon PRI

2004-06-18 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.06.18 08:34 Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Friday 18 June 2004 11:08, Lee Howard wrote: If you would rather use HylaFAX instead of spandsp and have $10K to throw around, then may I suggest hiring an Asterisk channel author to write a T.38-supporting channel driver? That way you could just

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TE410P / Eicon PRI

2004-06-18 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.06.18 08:10 Klaus-Peter Junghanns wrote: better send the EUR 10k (not $10k... :) ) to the author of spandDSP. Nobody needs HylaFAX for receiving faxes. Firstly, I'm not just talking about receiving faxes. If my choices are between HylaFAX and spandsp and if I want outbound queueing and a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TE410P / Eicon PRI

2004-06-18 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.06.18 20:02 Steve Underwood wrote: Lee Howard wrote: So, show me a T.38 channel driver for Asterisk. And if you think that using t38modem is ugly, then show me a T.38 driver for HylaFAX. I really want to see spandsp talking through T.38 across the internet. T.38 and fax to/from e-mail

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fax with SPA-2000's?

2004-06-24 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.06.23 12:19 Lee Howard wrote: On 2004.06.18 23:15 Seth Mattinen wrote: I've been trying to get fax reception to work using an SPA-2000 to ring the fax machine or modem that's taking fax calls. I was curious if anyone else had tried something similar, and if so, had any luck getting

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fax with SPA-2000's?

2004-06-24 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.06.24 18:28 Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Lee Howard wrote: I stand corrected. After a little bit of work with the fax application to adjust the timings (increasing all of the pauses), all is well with V.17 also. I assume you're using no compression (G711u) between the X100P and the SPA-2000

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Latest CVS fax detection grandstream bug

2004-06-25 Thread Lee Howard
On 2004.06.25 06:39 Andrew Yager wrote: The problem seems to be that when faxdetect is set in zapata.conf, asterisk does not inform the sip phones that a voice call has started actually been answered. Setting faxdetect=no causes everything to behave absolutely properly, with no problems

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] [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?

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] 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] Any plans for proper faxing support

2007-07-19 Thread Lee Howard
Andrew Joakimsen wrote: I was wondering if there is any plan to support fully faxing in Asterisk, I.E.: A T38 Gateway of sorts. You can use Asterisk 1.4's T.38 pass-through support in combination with the new OPAL-using t38modem (currently CVS) which now supports SIP (and not just H.323) to

[asterisk-users] software bloat - is this really useful to anyone?

2007-07-30 Thread Lee Howard
http://www.asterisk.org/node/48327 I mean, really... you're kidding me, right? Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:

Re: [asterisk-users] Wrinkled faxes or missing lines with Hylafax + IAXModem + Asterisk

2007-07-31 Thread Lee Howard
Michael Rice wrote: Hello. We are running Asterisk 1.2.23 iaxmodem-0.2.1 and hylafax-4.3.3 When we send faxes the people who receive the faxes complain that they look wrinkled or smashed up. Sometimes they are missing random lines. Has anyone seen this happen, or know how to fix it? Well,

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk1.2 to 1.4 g711a fax

2007-08-02 Thread Lee Howard
marek cervenka wrote: hi, i have problem with pass-through faxing with this scenario hylafax(iaxmodem) - iax - asterisk1 1.2.22 - sip - asterisk2 1.2.X(xen virtual) - linksys ATA i can fax to fax2mail on hylafax but after upgrade asterisk2 to 1.4 faxing is not working hylafax(iaxmodem) - iax

Re: [asterisk-users] Where to find t38modem

2007-08-05 Thread Lee Howard
The site lists openh323.org, but that's the old t38modem I think. The new one should be coming out here sometime: http://www.voxgratia.org/downloads.html However, right now I think that the SIP-compatible version is only in CVS: cvs -z9 -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/openh323 co

Re: [asterisk-users] iaxmodem, chan_capi, hylafax problem and faxing in general

2007-08-15 Thread Lee Howard
Faris Raouf wrote: The problem is that when I run faxstat, it does not show hylafax connected to any tty. You're probably not running faxgetty (and your later comments below confirm this...) And when I try to run faxaddmodem (just to see what might happen) and select ttyIAX, I get an error

Re: [asterisk-users] [hylafax-users] asterisk, iaxmodem, hylafax quality problem

2007-08-21 Thread Lee Howard
Thomas Kenyon wrote: The weird thing is, looking at the motherboard manual for my test machine, The lower the Interrupt does not neccesarily mean the higher the priority. Eg. 8 to 15 have a higher priority than 3 to 7. Correct. IRQ 2 bridges to IRQ 8. Thus the priority order is: 0, 1, 2,

Re: [asterisk-users] [hylafax-users] asterisk, iaxmodem, hylafax quality problem

2007-08-21 Thread Lee Howard
Thomas Kenyon wrote: My zttest results weren't quite as bad as the previous poster. Home Machine. --- Results after 113 passes --- Best: 100.00 -- Worst: 99.987793 -- Average: 99.994452 This should be perfectly fine. Work Machine. --- Results after 115 passes --- Best: 100.00 --

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Problems with SpanDSP

2007-08-28 Thread Lee Howard
Christian Peter wrote: Can anybody help me with this issue. Please no switch to Hylafax mails, because I'm very happy with SpanDSP, it integrates nicely and works most time. *chuckle* Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX detection not working

2007-09-29 Thread Lee Howard
Joe Acquisto wrote: As I understand it, I must have faxdetect = incoming to enable detection of the fax tone. Then, I must have a [fax] context to pickup the line and send it to whatever extension the FAX device is on. It's a fax extension in the context where the call is at... not a fax

Re: [asterisk-users] Sangoma vs Digium: (was Re: ping too)

2007-10-05 Thread Lee Howard
Matthew Fredrickson wrote: Not to ignite any fires, but I don't think I've *ever* knowingly received a patch to libpri or chan_zap from them. And I've fixed a few protocol related bugs in libpri for people with Sangoma cards. It'd be nice if they at the very least supported the protocol

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk hylafax iaxmodem

2007-10-17 Thread Lee Howard
Giedrius Augys wrote: I have problems with asterisk and hylafax+ iaxmodem. I can successfully send faxes to Panasonic KX-FT932 fax, but with Xerox WorkCentre M20i I have problems: No carrier. This is hylafax log, maybe you can suggest me where to find ... Oct 17 07:38:48.22: [22428]:

Re: [Asterisk-Users] fax detect DID variable

2006-01-26 Thread Lee Howard
James Armstrong wrote: Has anyone been able to get the original DID number when a fax comes in and is detected using the Zap fax detect? In your incoming call context where fax calls come in you need to Set some user variable to ${EXTEN} before the dialplan continues, because once the fax

Re: [Asterisk-Users] fax detect DID variable

2006-01-26 Thread Lee Howard
James Armstrong wrote: Ok, I got the number called in DNID, but now I need to pass it to the IAXModem so Hylafax can use it to route the email. The use CALLID1-4. It looks like CALLID 1 2 are the caller and CALLID3 is the Extension at the time the call is made to the IAXModem extension,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] txfax application problem

2006-01-30 Thread Lee Howard
Allan Gee wrote: I wonder if anyone can tell me which version of spandsp is used in iaxmodem? IAXmodem version 0.0.8 uses spandsp development snapshot 20051220... so it's 0.0.3, more recent than pre6. I would like to use the app_rxfax application WITH iaxmodem. This will be possible

Re: [Asterisk-Users] fax - misdn - zap - fax // fax - misdn - ATA - fax

2006-02-08 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Underwood wrote: When you are truly aware how non-optimal faxing over a VoIP channel is, you will give up. :-) This isn't a joke. Its the best advice I can give. Some people will tell you they have something that works. Well, lucky old them. Its not a reliably reproducible phenomenon.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Application Faxing using SIP

2006-02-18 Thread Lee Howard
J Poz wrote: Using an analog line is not an option for my service. My application runs on a ROOT SERVER of an ASP. So I can do anything I want to the server but I can't connect to or get external analog lines. So my options are doing faxing via the Internet (VOIP/SIP) or use a faxing

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Application Faxing using SIP

2006-02-19 Thread Lee Howard
Phil Blundell wrote: 1. Connect the fax machine to an ATA and have it speak SIP or IAX to * This will work provided that you can create a near-lossless communication path between the ATA and the PSTN gateway (which is the Asterisk box, I assume). One way of creating that, I would

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Application Faxing using SIP

2006-02-20 Thread Lee Howard
Phil Blundell wrote: I suspect that the datapath through our regular network switches is probably close enough to lossless for this purpose as well. You could be surprised. I know that I have been suprised by how easy it is for a UDP packet to get dropped or lost. I've had a few customers

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Application Faxing using SIP

2006-02-20 Thread Lee Howard
Jerry Jones wrote: Turning ECM seems to cause most of my issues with FAX. Most newer machines have this on by default. However if there is any packet loss, then when ECM tries to resend and there is additional loss, then it gets in a loop and everything just fails. Whereas with ECM off,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and T38 Fax

2006-02-21 Thread Lee Howard
Carey Mould wrote: How can I get asterisk to work with faxes in my configuration? I have a WAN with Asterisk at the centre and Mediatrix 1104 gateways at the end nodes providing tone to legacy PBX's and fax machines. The Asterisk is connected to the PSTN via a Digium single port t1. The end

Re: [Asterisk-Users] fax receive using TDM400P

2006-02-24 Thread Lee Howard
Anton Krall wrote: Well, I have the same effect on my TDM as in the E1 using unicall... Faxes get here as garbage :( I really would like to see sometime some audio recordings made by IAXmodem for people that had problems with TDMs and faxing with rxfax/txfax. Not that I have some hope of

Re: [Asterisk-Users] fax receive using TDM400P

2006-02-24 Thread Lee Howard
Anton Krall wrote: Any modification made to zapata as far as echo and gains? As a rule, don't let anything manipulate the audio at all... even echo cancellation. That said, I have seen situations where gain had to be increased. Should echocancel be on or off? Off, most definitely

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Fax Question

2006-03-03 Thread Lee Howard
Michael Sampson wrote: Your best bet is to just not use fax machines. They are outdated technology. It is older technology, true... but certainly it's not useless technology. Certainly there is nothing yet to replace it properly. And I could argue this on a technological standpoint, and

Re: [asterisk-users] Unable to establish handshaking with fax machine

2008-03-27 Thread Lee Howard
mark morreny wrote: I am simulating the sending of fax using sendfax through voip Ooops. Please see: http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/docs/fax-over-voip.pdf Thanks, Lee. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --

Re: [asterisk-users] Is there a distro with hlyafax rolled in?

2008-04-04 Thread Lee Howard
James Finstrom wrote: elastix *shivers* Lee. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Machine Options

2008-05-19 Thread Lee Howard
Andreas van dem Helge wrote: Cisco gateway with T.38 support. That's the only real way to do faxing through asterisk. Although this statement has marginally more truth to it given the SIP-only context that the original poster provided, it is still substantially inaccurate. There are several

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Machine Options

2008-05-20 Thread Lee Howard
Joseph L. Casale wrote: It turns out their SIP provider doesn't support the T.38 protocol for faxing. Their statement is if you really need it, use ulaw and AstraFax? I don't understand how AstraFax makes a difference in the process? It doesn't make a difference. uLaw over SIP/UDP still

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Machine Options

2008-05-20 Thread Lee Howard
Benny Amorsen wrote: Lee Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note that if you have a fax machine that performs some variant of T.37 (fax-over-email) and you have an on-line service provider that is willing to work with you... then you can rather easily get your fax machine faxing through

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax solution for Asterisk

2008-05-21 Thread Lee Howard
Sanjay Rajdev wrote: We are using Asterisk 1.4.13 on FC6 and have a T1 card with 20 DID's. We are wanting to use one of the DID's for Fax, is this possible or do we have to add some addition Hardware and what is the best way to do this. http://iaxmodem.sourceforge.net Thanks, Lee.

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax solution for Asterisk

2008-05-21 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Totaro wrote: You may need an additional server just to handle faxes if you are running many instances as they are CPU intensive. iaxmodem is not CPU intensive. 100 of them aren't. You can put that many on a typical modern machine and have them all faxing simultaneously and not see a

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax solution for Asterisk

2008-05-22 Thread Lee Howard
Benny Amorsen wrote: Now, what's the story on Hylafax+? How is that different from Hylafax? See: http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/about.php Thanks, Lee. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax solution for Asterisk

2008-05-22 Thread Lee Howard
Gordon Henderson wrote: Something that's always confused me - IAXmodem is built on spandsp. RxFAX is also built on spandsp. RxFAX gets one step closer to the data stream (no copper/IP in the way), so why are people using ( suggesting) Hylafax over RxFAX? spandsp includes a lot of

Re: [asterisk-users] aSTERISK / Vicidial systems over 4MB fiber

2008-06-12 Thread Lee Howard
Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 08:02:24AM -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote: One of the most frequent security issues comes not in the form of a software flaw, but simply in people choosing easy-to-guess passwords on the root account. There are two suggestions I have to reduce

Re: [asterisk-users] (announce) asterisk T.38 gateway

2008-07-13 Thread Lee Howard
Matt Watson wrote: I'd probably be a little pissed if I were Steve Underwood if somebody pocketed over 10k $USD for taking credit for a product that my free library did the bulk of the work for. I can't speak for Steve at all, but any major contributor to an open-source project faces this, so

Re: [asterisk-users] Hylafax asterisk iaxmodem problem

2008-10-23 Thread Lee Howard
voip crazy wrote: This calls arrive the asterisk box, asterisk detect that this calls are fax, asterisk answer the call, and then Hangup the call. But hylafax do not receive nothing. What does the CLI say about this call? Thanks, Lee. ___ --

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX on PRI and TE205P

2007-04-22 Thread Lee Howard
nik600 wrote: i have a PRI connected to a TE205P. Actually, can i send and receive FAX through Asterisk using stable solutions? Or shall i connect an ATA to Asterisk and then a modem with Hylafax? I would suggest that using IAXmodem with HylaFAX would be more stable than using an

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX on PRI and TE205P

2007-04-23 Thread Lee Howard
And 10,545 downloads in 33 releases. Crazy people! nik600 wrote: its in a beta state with only one member... is it a stable project? thanks On 4/23/07, Lee Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nik600 wrote: i have a PRI connected to a TE205P. Actually, can i send and receive FAX through

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX on PRI and TE205P

2007-04-23 Thread Lee Howard
, where the most important Voip problems are minimized... thanks On 4/23/07, Lee Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And 10,545 downloads in 33 releases. Crazy people! nik600 wrote: its in a beta state with only one member... is it a stable project? thanks

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-04 Thread Lee Howard
Gordon Henderson wrote: The downside of iaxmodem is that (to my knowledge) you can't easilly implement an auto-answer/detect fax/voice/ auto attendant/voicemail system. The channel must be dedicated to faxing, and that's that. This may or may not be an issue for you though. If you needed

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-04 Thread Lee Howard
Luki wrote: So essentially you need a pool of iaxmodems running on different ports, and then Dial() them until you find one that accepts your call. Or did I get that wrong? That seems really like a drawback to me The biggest drawback with app_rxfax is that if it crashes for whatever reason

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-04 Thread Lee Howard
Luki wrote: So you are saying a pool if iaxmodems and a loop through Dial() to find an open one is the way to go? Yes. You could launch iaxmodems on-demand - as well as the corresponding faxgetty and wait for the initialization to finish - but it is better to just have a bunch of modems

Re: [asterisk-users] RE: Bottom line on fax reception

2007-05-28 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Totaro wrote: Please qualify your usage. A couple faxes a day, a couple hundred, a couple thousand, or a couple hundred thousand? Couple hundred thousand per month - at least on one installation. Are you running asterisk and hylafax on the same machine? What is your TDM

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Throughput

2007-06-26 Thread Lee Howard
Don Kelly wrote: I've tried timing faxes two ways: From a fax machine on a station port of an AltiGen PC/PBX served by an MCI PRI calling back into the same PRI and reaching a RightFax server on a station port behind the AltiGen. From the same fax machine on the same station port of the AltiGen

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax and Asterisk

2007-07-07 Thread Lee Howard
Andrew Nowrot wrote: I am trying to build reliable fax solution with asterisk, iaxmodem and hylafax. I am attempting to do this on Compaq DL-360 with 2 pentium 3 1.2 GHz (512 cache) and 2GB of RAM. I am using a Sangoma A101. After installing the newest zaptel and wanpipe-3.1.0 beta I did

[asterisk-users] Re: [iaxmodem-users] OT: Asterisk 1.2.X, IAXModem 0.2.0 + HylaFAX+ 5.0.3 interop probl em

2007-01-30 Thread Lee Howard
Colin Anderson wrote: When I have HylaFAX answer a call redirected to the fax extension in Asterisk when it detects CNG, Asterisk hangs up: Jan 30 14:32:59 VERBOSE[1098]: -- IAX2/ttyIAX0552/12 is ringing Jan 30 14:32:59 VERBOSE[1098]: -- IAX2/ttyIAX0552/12 answered Zap/23-1 Jan 30

Re: [asterisk-users] Re: Asterisk Faxing Support

2007-02-08 Thread Lee Howard
Craig Guy wrote: it wouldn't make business sense for Digium to have code in the free distribution that can't be in their commercial distribution. Yes, I do suspect that Digium sees things this way. Maybe I'm too much of a free-thinker - too believing in the open-source philosophy, but I

Re: [asterisk-users] Rxfax and Txfax on Asterisk 1.4

2007-02-08 Thread Lee Howard
Ardjan Zwartjes wrote: One thing that's important to mention here: We get unpredictable results if the fax is transmitted entirely over VOIP, if the fax passes a regular telephony channel once it works fine but if it's purely VOIP, transmission errors occur. This is probably a timing problem,

Re: [asterisk-users] b410p + fax (echo cancellation)

2007-02-23 Thread Lee Howard
Zoilo Gomez wrote: I really don't get it From several emails in this list archive, I had clearly understood that it is important to switch Echo Cancellation off for fax-channels, or faxing would not work properly. However, faxing (B410P ISDN bridged to TE410P PSTN) seems to work fine

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Faxing Support

2007-02-28 Thread Lee Howard
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Andrew Joakimsen wrote: Steve Underwood and the other fine persons that have helped to develop the software DSPs and other stuff required for FoIP support also have no interest in writing any further faxing support for Asterisk (RxFax, TxFax + the newest span_dsp

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Faxing Support

2007-02-28 Thread Lee Howard
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Wednesday 28 February 2007 7:53 pm, Lee Howard wrote: The problem, however, as we all know, is that the Asterisk maintainer, Digium, requires undue retribution in the form of disclaimers before it will accept any contribution into the code repository

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX using T38

2007-02-28 Thread Lee Howard
Matt Riddell [NZ] wrote: Does OpenPBX do a T.38 gateway then? Yes, it does. Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:

Re: [asterisk-users] IAX2 and Faxing

2007-03-14 Thread Lee Howard
Davis Sylvester III wrote: Can someone tell me how to get faxing to work with an IAX2 remote client? Wish upon a falling star, throw a penny into a fountain, find a four-leaf clover, and pat your head and rub your stomach all at the same time. :-)

Re: [asterisk-users] IAX2 and Faxing

2007-03-14 Thread Lee Howard
Davis Sylvester III wrote: Thanks for the quick response. But how do other VoIP Service Providers like vonage provide fax capabilities? Inevitably what I say here is going to be countered from some Vonage customer saying, You're wrong! It always has worked for me. Vonage even advertises

Re: [asterisk-users] Configuring Faxs any help :)

2007-03-20 Thread Lee Howard
younss azzayani wrote: and this is the /var/spool/hylafax/log/c1: http://pastebin.ca/403282 cat /var/spool/hylafax/log/c3 :: http://pastebin.ca/403291 What does zttest say? If it's below 99.98% then hardware configuration is where the problem is. Lee.

Re: [asterisk-users] Configuring Faxs any help :)

2007-03-20 Thread Lee Howard
dima wrote: I get Best: 99.975586 -- Worst: 99.975586 -- Average: 99.975586 with zttest Where do I have to start looking for hardware errors? I would start with IRQ sharing. Make sure that your Zap hardware isn't sharing an IRQ. Secondly, you want to have it with a fairly high priority,

Re: [asterisk-users] Configuring Faxs any help :)

2007-03-20 Thread Lee Howard
younss azzayani wrote: zfter running zttool i got: --- Results after 303 passes --- Best: 100.00 -- Worst: 99.987793 -- Average: 99.994914 Okay. Then at this point you need to put record in your iaxmodem config file, restart iaxmodem, attempt the call again, and afterwards send me

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