On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 10:23:06 -0400 "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <da...@vex.net> wrote: > The docs for faxing seem a little light but I think I have managed to > put something together. It mostly works but I have a couple of > issues. The main one is identifying myself. Setting CALLERID doesn't > seem to have any effect.
For future searches here is my fix. > How this works is that I have a script that calls Asterisk through > AMI, It defines a number of variables and does an originate. It > looks something like this: > > Action: Originate > Channel: SIP/thinktel/%%(destination)s I added the following: CallerID: %%(sender_name)s <%%(sender_num)s> > same => n,Set(CALLERID(NAME)=${sender_name}) > same => n,Set(CALLERID(NUM)=${sender_num}) > ; attempting to set caller ID but it doesn't work Not needed or used. The CallerID in the AMI script fixes this. > same => n,Set(FAXOPT(headerinfo)=${sender_name}) > same => n,Set(FAXOPT(localstationid=${sender_num}) > ; another attempt to identify ourselves I believe that this is still useful for adding info to the fax pages. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain System Administrator, Vex.Net http://www.Vex.Net/ IM:da...@vex.net VoIP: sip:da...@vex.net -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- Join the Asterisk Community at the 13th AstriCon, September 27-29, 2016 http://www.asterisk.org/community/astricon-user-conference New to Asterisk? Start here: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Getting+Started asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users