Dear community,

Finally, after all the great job Links hidden for unregistered users. Login or register Here we have an rpm of avantfax. At the moment we have a beta package for testing purpose only. Feed back needed to fix possible bugs.

Installation instructions
Add the Elastix-Extras RPM Repository for CentOS:
-Go to the admin web interfase
- go to updates
- add extra repositories
Install avant fax
- ssh to the server
- run: yum install elastix-avantfax
Login again to the web interface (you may need to restart the session)
- Go to the extra section and you would see avantfax tab

TO enter avantfax use:
user: admin
password: password

Thank you all for your help and for testing and recommendations on how to improve this module.

When installing the rpm it installs at default language of spanish

Excellent work.
Regards,
Pawe

I'd like to share some of my experiences since installing AvantFax on my ELX-3000:


So far this module works well. I have problems with faxes being captured and saved into the "Inbox" when I've already setup the ttyIAX extension in the normal Elastix virtual fax section.

When receiving the fax in Avantfax I notice my ttyIAX goes into receiving mode, when completed it sends to my email and does not put the PDF into the AvantFax "Inbox".

Sending fax works well so far, once I modify the cover page template and graphics. Just make sure you specify the ttyIAX extension for the user or it'll use another extension which will use the wrong caller ID and name.

This is how I have things setup currently:

- I have a SIP trunk our softswitch (G.711 Codec works great at 9600bps)
- setup IAX2 extensions for fax lines
- setup virtual Fax in Elastix to the IAX2 extensions

Go into Avantfax module:
- Made a fax category for the user
- Add new modem to the ttyIAX modem assigned in virtual fax
- Add new user and choose the modem and category you made
- Add applicable user permissions

I did not specify CUPS/lpr printer for the modem.

Has anyone else been able to recieve faxes and have them saved in "inbox"? If so please let me know if I should do something different.

Thank you guys for the feedback

Eham, if you want the faxes to go to inbox you have to put this three lines at the end of /var/spool/hylafax/etc/config.ttyIAX* for every modem

FaxrcvdCmd: bin/faxrcvd.php
DynamicConfig: bin/dynconf.php
UseJobTSI: true

Thank you Ramoncio but this didn't work for me.. I saw the ttyIAX go into receiving mode but it did not email to me or show up in Avantfax's Inbox. Also when I sent a fax with Avantfax I got an email:

Fax: OK
Failed to create PDF for Archive:-(

To: (edited out #)


I also tried specifying the full paths:

FaxrcvdCmd: /var/spool/hylafax/bin/faxrcvd.php
DynamicConfig: /var/spool/hylafax/bin/dynconf.php

With no avail.

I am getting same error

Failed to create PDF for Archive

I think this is due to file permissions..

Yes,
The probllem is in this:

If you want make directory by hand and then should work.
At least works for me.

Please check, if the /var/www/html/avantfax/faxes and /var/www/html/avantfax/tmp have the right permissions

# cd /var/www/html/avantfax/
# ls -la
...........
drwxrwx--- 4 asterisk uucp 4096 Oct 20 10:00 faxes
drwxrwx--- 59 asterisk uucp 4096 Oct 30 08:59 tmp

to fix the permissions

# chown -R asterisk:uucp /var/www/html/avantfax/faxes
# chown -R asterisk:uucp /var/www/html/avantfax/tmp
# chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/avantfax/faxes /var/www/html/avantfax/tmp

Best Regards,
Saleh