Efax

Please advise,

I’m having trouble getting efax (fax to PDF) to work on an extension.

My settings are as follows:

Asterisk SIP Settings:
T38 Pass-Through Yes

InBound route:
Detect Faxes: Yes
Fax Detection type: SIP
Fax Detection Time: 4
Fax Destination: Fax Recipient : “an extension number: 949xxxxxxx” (I x’d the number for privacy here)…

Extensions:
Fax Enabled: (check box)
Fax email: (email address)

I’m puzzled why FreePBX does’t seem to detect an incoming Fax Call (from a fax machine) and covert to PDF and email it. The call only rings the IP Phone extension…

thx

Paul

Since you did not tell us what version of FreePBX, Asterisk and how it was installed your question can’t be answered.

Sorry, here you go: Installed Asterisk 1.8.6.0 with FreePBX 2.9.0 on CentOS 5.6.

thx

Paul

You installed it all by hand?

If so you need to have all the fax stuff. In the distro we use the spandsp libraries and nvfax.

You can also use the Digium Fax for Asterisk with nvfax.

I installed FreePBX and Asterisk for telcodog using tar files downloaded from the web sites. Kind of new at this, but I tried the Asterisk command “core show applications” and it returned the following list. It listed “ReceiveFAX: Receive a Fax” and “SendFAX: Send a Fax”. Is that sufficient or are we still missing some components?

*CLI> core show applications
-= Registered Asterisk Applications =-
AddQueueMember: Dynamically adds queue members.
ADSIProg: Load Asterisk ADSI Scripts into phone
AELSub: Launch subroutine built with AEL
AgentLogin: Call agent login.
AgentMonitorOutgoing: Record agent’s outgoing call.
AGI: Executes an AGI compliant application.
AlarmReceiver: Provide support for receiving alarm reports from a burglar or fire alarm panel.
AMD: Attempt to detect answering machines.
Answer: Answer a channel if ringing.
Authenticate: Authenticate a user
BackGround: Play an audio file while waiting for digits of an extension to go to.
BackgroundDetect: Background a file with talk detect.
Bridge: Bridge two channels.
Busy: Indicate the Busy condition.
CallCompletionCancel: Cancel call completion service
CallCompletionRequest: Request call completion service for previous call
CELGenUserEvent: Generates a CEL User Defined Event.
ChangeMonitor: Change monitoring filename of a channel.
ChanIsAvail: Check channel availability
ChannelRedirect: Redirects given channel to a dialplan target
ChanSpy: Listen to a channel, and optionally whisper into it.
ClearHash: Clear the keys from a specified hashname.
ConfBridge: Conference bridge application.
Congestion: Indicate the Congestion condition.
ContinueWhile: Restart a While loop.
ControlPlayback: Play a file with fast forward and rewind.
DAHDIScan: Scan DAHDI channels to monitor calls.
DateTime: Says a specified time in a custom format.
DBdel: Delete a key from the asterisk database.
DBdeltree: Delete a family or keytree from the asterisk database.
DeadAGI: Executes AGI on a hungup channel.
Dial: Attempt to connect to another device or endpoint and bridge the call.
Dictate: Virtual Dictation Machine.
Directory: Provide directory of voicemail extensions.
DISA: Direct Inward System Access.
DumpChan: Dump Info About The Calling Channel.
EAGI: Executes an EAGI compliant application.
Echo: Echo audio, video, DTMF back to the calling party
EndWhile: End a while loop.
Exec: Executes dialplan application.
ExecIf: Executes dialplan application, conditionally.
ExecIfTime: Conditional application execution based on the current time.
ExitWhile: End a While loop.
ExtenSpy: Listen to a channel, and optionally whisper into it.
ExternalIVR: Interfaces with an external IVR application.
Festival: Say text to the user.
FollowMe: Find-Me/Follow-Me application.
ForkCDR: Forks the Call Data Record.
GetCPEID: Get ADSI CPE ID.
Gosub: Jump to label, saving return address.
GosubIf: Conditionally jump to label, saving return address.
Goto: Jump to a particular priority, extension, or context.
GotoIf: Conditional goto.
GotoIfTime: Conditional Goto based on the current time.
Hangup: Hang up the calling channel.
IAX2Provision: Provision a calling IAXy with a given template.
ICES: Encode and stream using ‘ices’.
ImportVar: Import a variable from a channel into a new variable.
Incomplete: Returns AST_PBX_INCOMPLETE value.
Log: Send arbitrary text to a selected log level.
Macro: Macro Implementation.
MacroExclusive: Exclusive Macro Implementation.
MacroExit: Exit from Macro.
MacroIf: Conditional Macro implementation.
MailboxExists: Check to see if Voicemail mailbox exists.
Milliwatt: Generate a Constant 1004Hz tone at 0dbm (mu-law).
MinivmAccMess: Record account specific messages.
MinivmDelete: Delete Mini-Voicemail voicemail messages.
MinivmGreet: Play Mini-Voicemail prompts.
MinivmMWI: Send Message Waiting Notification to subscriber(s) of mailbox.
MinivmNotify: Notify voicemail owner about new messages.
MinivmRecord: Receive Mini-Voicemail and forward via e-mail.
MixMonitor: Record a call and mix the audio during the recording. Use of StopMixMonitor is required to guarantee the audio file is available for processing during dialplan execution.
Monitor: Monitor a channel.
Morsecode: Plays morse code.
MP3Player: Play an MP3 file or M3U playlist file or stream.
MSet: Set channel variable(s) or function value(s).
MusicOnHold: Play Music On Hold indefinitely.
MYSQL: Do several mySQLy things
NBScat: Play an NBS local stream.
NoCDR: Tell Asterisk to not maintain a CDR for the current call
NoOp: Do Nothing (No Operation).
Originate: Originate a call.
Park: Park yourself.
ParkAndAnnounce: Park and Announce.
ParkedCall: Answer a parked call.
PauseMonitor: Pause monitoring of a channel.
PauseQueueMember: Pauses a queue member.
Pickup: Directed extension call pickup.
PickupChan: Pickup a ringing channel.
Playback: Play a file.
PlayTones: Play a tone list.
PrivacyManager: Require phone number to be entered, if no CallerID sent
Proceeding: Indicate proceeding.
Progress: Indicate progress.
Queue: Queue a call for a call queue.
QueueLog: Writes to the queue_log file.
RaiseException: Handle an exceptional condition.
Read: Read a variable.
ReadExten: Read an extension into a variable.
ReadFile: Read the contents of a text file into a channel variable.
ReceiveFAX: Receive a Fax
Record: Record to a file.
RemoveQueueMember: Dynamically removes queue members.
ResetCDR: Resets the Call Data Record.
RetryDial: Place a call, retrying on failure allowing an optional exit extension.
Return: Return from gosub routine.
Ringing: Indicate ringing tone.
SayAlpha: Say Alpha.
SayCountPL: Say Polish counting words.
SayDigits: Say Digits.
SayNumber: Say Number.
SayPhonetic: Say Phonetic.
SayUnixTime: Says a specified time in a custom format.
SendDTMF: Sends arbitrary DTMF digits
SendFAX: Send a Fax
SendImage: Sends an image file.
SendText: Send a Text Message.
SendURL: Send a URL.
Set: Set channel variable or function value.
SetAMAFlags: Set the AMA Flags.
SetCallerPres: Set CallerID Presentation.
SetMusicOnHold: Set default Music On Hold class.
SIPAddHeader: Add a SIP header to the outbound call.
SIPDtmfMode: Change the dtmfmode for a SIP call.
SIPRemoveHeader: Remove SIP headers previously added with SIPAddHeader
SMS: Communicates with SMS service centres and SMS capable analogue phones.
SoftHangup: Hangs up the requested channel.
SpeechActivateGrammar: Activate a grammar.
SpeechBackground: Play a sound file and wait for speech to be recognized.
SpeechCreate: Create a Speech Structure.
SpeechDeactivateGrammar: Deactivate a grammar.
SpeechDestroy: End speech recognition.
SpeechLoadGrammar: Load a grammar.
SpeechProcessingSound: Change background processing sound.
SpeechStart: Start recognizing voice in the audio stream.
SpeechUnloadGrammar: Unload a grammar.
StackPop: Remove one address from gosub stack.
StartMusicOnHold: Play Music On Hold.
StopMixMonitor: Stop recording a call through MixMonitor, and free the recording’s file handle.
StopMonitor: Stop monitoring a channel.
StopMusicOnHold: Stop playing Music On Hold.
StopPlayTones: Stop playing a tone list.
System: Execute a system command.
TestClient: Execute Interface Test Client.
TestServer: Execute Interface Test Server.
Transfer: Transfer caller to remote extension.
TryExec: Executes dialplan application, always returning.
TrySystem: Try executing a system command.
UnpauseMonitor: Unpause monitoring of a channel.
UnpauseQueueMember: Unpauses a queue member.
UserEvent: Send an arbitrary event to the manager interface.
Verbose: Send arbitrary text to verbose output.
VMAuthenticate: Authenticate with Voicemail passwords.
VMSayName: Play the name of a voicemail user
VoiceMail: Leave a Voicemail message.
VoiceMailMain: Check Voicemail messages.
Wait: Waits for some time.
WaitExten: Waits for an extension to be entered.
WaitForNoise: Waits for a specified amount of noise.
WaitForRing: Wait for Ring Application.
WaitForSilence: Waits for a specified amount of silence.
WaitMusicOnHold: Wait, playing Music On Hold.
WaitUntil: Wait (sleep) until the current time is the given epoch.
While: Start a while loop.
Zapateller: Block telemarketers with SIT.
-= 166 Applications Registered =-

Are we missing some of: spandsp libraries and nvfax?

thx

Paul

Installed Asterisk 1.8.6.0 with FreePBX 2.9.0 on CentOS 5.6 !