On May 16, 2005, at 2:03 am, Joseph wrote:
On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 23:08 +0100, Stroller wrote:On May 15, 2005, at 7:34 pm, Joseph wrote:
I would like to compile an additional application to asterisk: NVBackgroundDetect to detect incoming faxes.
Is this necessary for all Asterisk installations to detect incoming
faxes, or just for some FXO (??) cards?
Is there a good reason this shouldn't be part of all Asterisk installs?
No, not everybody needs it; but for me and many like me it would allow us to move fax on an internal extension extension and free up the line (You can use the fax line for an incoming calls). You can read how the NVBackgroundDetect works at: http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=NVBackgroundDetect
The code is GPL from Newman Telecom
Asterisk has a fax detection code but it only works with ZAP channel
(Digium Card) which I'm not in favor (I prefer ATA - external units like
Sipura SPA-3000 and/or any other ATA unit).
Right.. so if I'm reading this correctly, NVBackgroundDetect is an improvement on Asterisk's own fax-detection code. I have a X100P clone which might not be supported by Asterisk - NVBackgroundDetect detects faxes for ALL cards?
Unless this introduces incompatibilities with fax-detect on Digium's ZAP channel hardware, it would seem there's no reason not to include this as part of a default Asterisk install??
I've the code from Newman Telecom but I'll file an ebuild request as you
suggested.
The code would be suitable for many like me that don't use ZAP channel
but would like to have/take advantage of fax-detection.
Please post a link to the bug. If you're not comfortable hacking the ebuild yourself I might well have a crack at it - I have Asterisk hardware sitting here waiting for me to find the time to implement it.
Stroller.
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