Comments on: Incredible Fax: Free Faxing Returns to Incredible PBX 1.8

By: dan

dan — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:23:41 +0000

Say you have 3 different incoming fax #’s. Is there a way to have each of those 3 incoming lines email their fax notifications to different email addresses? Thanks!

[WM: Excellent question… for the PIAF Forum. 😉 ]

By: JohnJohnson

JohnJohnson — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:24:44 +0000

We have commented out the portion of the incrediblefax.sh that checks for the incredible pbx and it has installed fine with PIAF Gold. Here’s a downloadable copy of what we used:
http://www.i3techgroup.com/download/incrediblefax.sh

By: Corey

Corey — Thu, 12 May 2011 18:42:41 +0000

"half windows + half mac = wack?"

I’m not following what you are trying to get across? What’s half windows and half mac?

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 06 May 2011 04:19:14 +0000

If I use Avantfax with Google Voice, will it tell me when the faxes can’t be sent?

Do I simply have to resend the fax again [and again] until I get a confirmed delivery from AvantFax?

[WM: AvantFax manages retries on its own. After numerous attempts, you’ll get an email that the fax delivery failed. Sometimes it’s not a problem at your end. Other folks’ fax machines do run out of paper, or memory, or get unplugged from time to time. So this isn’t really new news. It never was an ideal communications platform to begin with.]

By: ward

ward — Thu, 05 May 2011 16:37:37 +0000

Thanks to gvtricks, both HylaFax and AvantFax have been updated to latest releases which appear to be more reliable with Google Voice.

By: Eric S.

Eric S. — Tue, 03 May 2011 23:21:08 +0000

Does this work with the proxmox ve version? I’ve run update-programs and update-fixes, but the incrediblefax.sh doesn’t run.

When I run the incrediblefax.sh script I get:
cat: /etc/pbx/.incredible: No such file or directory
Sorry. Please install Incredible PBX 1.8 before running Incredible Fax script.

When I run asterisk cli CORE SHOW VERSION:
"Asterisk 1.8.2 built by root @ XXXXX on a x86_64 running Linux on 2011-04-07 02:42:29 UTC"

[WM: The article explains how to download the script. You can comment out line 38 with a leading # sign and try it. We haven’t tried it, but you should be fine. No guarantees!!! And make a good backup first. Let us know how it goes.]

By: Steve Underwood

Steve Underwood — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:11:29 +0000

This writeup implies Asterisk 1.8 is happier with Digium’s commercial fax offering than with spandsp. Can someone elaborate on that? I haven’t heard from people using 1.8, but I’ve helped a few people move from Digium’s engine to spandsp with 1.6.x, to improve their reliability.

By: ewb

ewb — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:01:12 +0000

I agree that this install process is simple, but I am afraid it may be simple to the extreme that Albert Einstein warned. Is there specific equipment necessary to run this aside from the PBX install? There are references to T.38, but that appears to be not part of what is installed. Where can further details be found on what is happening under the hood? Normally the source code would be sufficient, but most of the PBX in a Flash terms have item 3 (I agree not to request the source code for this script). Can someone point to discussions that explain more of what is going on so that a better ability to trouble shoot the install can be gained? [WM: The incrediblefax.sh shell script is open source. You're welcome to review it and make any changes you desire. We haven't found anyone who has had much success with T.38 using HylaFax and AvantFax, but YMMV. Post a link if you find a working model.]

By: POwe

POwe — Mon, 02 May 2011 11:20:37 +0000

half windows + half mac = wack? windoc? mows? mindows? (second screenshot)