Dialplan For Receiving Faxes On Asterisk

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Hi all,

It looks like people commonly use this kind of dialplan when receiving faxes on Asterisk, with a jump to extension fax during the Wait() if a fax tone is detected:

[start-here]
exten => _X.,1,Answer()
exten => _X.,n,Wait(n)
exten => _X.,n,…do stuff… exten => _X.,n,Hangup()

exten => fax,1,Goto(fax-rx,receive,1)

[fax-rx]
exten => receive,1,… exten => receive,n,…do stuff… exten => receive,n,ReceiveFAX()

This is well suited in case Asterisk needs to receive both voice and fax calls. But what if Asterisk is only used to receive fax calls, can we start directly at the fax-rx context? I’ve heard that it’s better to wait a few seconds before calling ReceiveFAX(), is it still necessary in case we don’t actually need fax detection?

Simon

One thought on - Dialplan For Receiving Faxes On Asterisk

  • If you don’t have the need to detect the fax tone then I don’t see any need to wait.

    You should disable the ‘faxdetect’ option in your peer otherwise it may attempt to redirect to the ‘fax’ extension upon detecting the fax signalling.

    Assuming you are using a SIP trunk to accept the call you could use in your sip.conf peer something like;

    context