Are asterisk-app-fax's rxfax and txfax applications supposed to work?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

Hi Andrew,

I can't think of a specific issue. Just to clear out the obvious, simple
things:

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:50:51PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've installed the asterisk-app-fax packaged to get the rxfax and txfax
> applications, and setup an extension thusly:
> 
> exten => fax,1,Set(FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk/fax/${UNIQUEID:0:${LEN(UNIQUEID)}}.tiff)
> exten => fax,n,Set(LOCALSTATIONID="XXXXXXXXXXX")
> exten => fax,n,rxfax(${FAXFILE},debug)
> 
> Yet when a fax call comes in, it hits this extension correctly (I've set
> faxdetect=incoming in my zapata.conf), but after passing through the rxfax
> application, I've got nothing to show for it. I see no errors on the
> console, just no output.

Just to make it clear: if you set verbose to 3 (or more), you see the
call of the fax passing in the the rxfax application?

> 
> I found this configuration at http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+fax and
> I realise it's completely nothing like what the documentation that ships
> with asterisk-app-fax says, but it seems to make more sense. It just doesn't
> work.
> 
> My versions are below. Any suggestions appreciated.

Can you try appending an Answer() before that?

  exten => fax,1,Set(FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk/fax/${UNIQUEID:0:${LEN(UNIQUEID)}}.tiff)
  exten => fax,n,Set(LOCALSTATIONID="XXXXXXXXXXX")
  exten => fax,n,Answer
  exten => fax,n,rxfax(${FAXFILE},debug)

> 
> regards
> 
> Andrew
> 
> $ grep-status -F Status "install ok installed" -s Package,Version | grep-dctrl -P asterisk
> Package: asterisk-doc
> Version: 1:1.2.1.dfsg-3
> 
> Package: asterisk-sounds-main
> Version: 1:1.2.10.dfsg-2
> 
> Package: asterisk-sounds-extra
> Version: 1.2.1-1
> 
> Package: asterisk
> Version: 1:1.2.10.dfsg-2
> 
> Package: asterisk-app-fax
> Version: 0.0.20060218-1
> 
> Package: asterisk-classic
> Version: 1:1.2.10.dfsg-2
> 
> Package: asterisk-config
> Version: 1:1.2.10.dfsg-2
> 
> 


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