Comments on: The Lean, Mean Asterisk Machine: And Now It’s a Fax Machine

By: Henry

Henry — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:09:00 +0000

How can i chose what trunk to use for outgoing when using the FAXIT option (Loading pdf in tmp file) can i do it the the web gui or thru the conf file?

By: billy

billy — Wed, 12 May 2010 04:52:28 +0000

in PIAF with FreePBX 2.7.0.2, under general settings, there is no fax section.
Please help to setup fax using piaf.
thanks in advance.

WM: http://pbxinaflash.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6913

By: Himala

Himala — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:41:23 +0000

Ward. do you have any instruction for setting up in freepbx 2.7 i try this did not work thanks himala [WM: See this thread on the forums.]

By: Rod

Rod — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:38:37 +0000

I have this working well on incoming pots lines. Problem we have now is that we have a fax machine on a fxs line, and when we dial out from it, the asterisk sees it as a fax and intercepts it and turns it into a pdf and sends it to us. If we use an attached phone on the fax, dial out, then hit send it all works good. Any suggestions on how to keep this from happening?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:54:59 +0000

Ward,

As always – thanks. The script works great and seems to have set everything up perfectly, incoming faxes are flawless – however, outgoing faxes aren’t. It looks like TxFAX initiates, and I’ve tested to ensure that * IS dialing out… But its not sending fax tones to the other end, and I think the call eventually just times out and hangs up. Did I miss something?

[WM: Can you send an outbound fax to a dedicated fax machine internally? You need to start there. My guess is your outbound provider is the problem. Head to the forums if you have other issues.]

By: Fax From Your Computer

Fax From Your Computer — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:14:54 +0000

Great article! PBX is a great solution, I’ve been using online faxing services for over a year now and it’s saved me tons of money, so I really recommend it to anyone who is searching for a faxing solution.

By: John

John — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:00:24 +0000

Well done, Thanks Nerd Vittles!
I only wish that outgoing faxing was a little more straight forward. Teaching users to convert a document to PDF, rename it with the phone number, drop it to a share on the server, then pick up the phone and dialing out the fax number is a bit much for most users to handle. Could someone possibly come up with a way to automate this? Perhaps someone could make a script that sets up a cron job to scan the shared directory for pdf’s and if it finds one, parse the number from the file name and fax it. Then the problem becomes how to pop up a dialogue to the user prompting them for a phone number. Ideally this should be done in the print driver. Food for thought.

[WM: The simplest way is to add an external telephone adapter and a fax machine to your system. Then users can send faxes just like they always have. Total cost: under $100.]

By: Brad Gentry

Brad Gentry — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:02:52 +0000

The FonicaTec mini-banner in this post advertises no connection fees. I know this isn’t true, at least with the penny plan. I wouldn’t mind if it was true though! 😀

Thanks for everything!

[WM: The FonicaTec literature is pretty clear that this is a pay-as-you-go plan… and a very inexpensive one at that.]