I am also very interested in these scripts. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dovid B Sent: Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:50 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] 'Traditional' Faxing
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonn R Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 5:45 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] 'Traditional' Faxing > Greg Cockburn wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> the company I work for has an aging Digital PBX attached to an E1. >> >> This PBX has a few analogue lines, one of which we use a 'traditional' >> fax machine on. >> >> I want to upgrade our PBX and Asterisk is almost a perfect fit. >> >> The only problem I can't seem to find a working solution for is Faxing. >> >> I don't want to use Hylafax or other similar methodologies. >> >> I believe there maybe someway to bridge an Analogue FXS port to a >> channel on the E1? >> >> Basically I want to mimic what we have now. >> >> 1. Any person can send a fax using the fax machine, and the PBX picks >> the next free channel on the E1. >> >> 2. A fax call can come over any channel on the E1, and the dialed number >> is matched and sent to the analogue FXS port of the PBX to be received >> by the fax machine. >> >> Is there anyway I can do this in Asterisk that will work seamlessly? >> >> I have not yet purchased any hardware, so recommendations would be >> greatly appreciated. >> (I believe some of the problem exists due to timing, does any hardware; >> E1 card / Analogue card; support linking a timing signal together?) >> Sangoma, Digium, Pika? >> >> Thanks all for any help on this one. >> Greg. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> --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 > > Greg, > > There are alot of option for handeling faxes. One is to use iaxmodem and > hylafax. This option works the best. You can try to use an analog > adapter or card to connect a conventional fax to but this is not allways > reliable. I have spent alot of time working on faxing with asterisk. If > you need any help you can email me and I will send the links and scripts > that I have to help you in your setup. FYI, They are all for RH/CentOS. > > Hardware, how many phone and trunks do you plan on using? Digium cards > for analog phone's and faxes work very well, linksys makes very good > ATA's too. Digium or Sangoma T1 cards are the most suppoted that I have > seen. but there are others. > > OS, there are alot of different *nix OS's that are out there. Pick the > one that you are the most comfortable to use. Asterisk was developed on > RedHat though. Depending on your needs for support I would suggest > either EL4 or CentOS4 with Asterisk 1.2. There are alot of people > running 1.4 in production but the commercaial version of Asterisk is > still on 1.2 > > John, Do you mind posting a link to those CentOS scripts here ? Thanks. Dovid _______________________________________________ --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 _______________________________________________ --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
