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Re: [hylafax-users] is this possible.



Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
Depends what features you want...

If you want hylafax to *automatically* answer only certain calls, you
will need distinctive ring or something like that.

If you can live with answering all your calls yourself, and
"instructing" hylafax to answer some others, you can use the faxanswer
command (or write your one simple programe, etc...) connected to
something like a remote, serial switch, web-page, etc) to tell hylafax
to answer a line, having it not answer by default (RingsBeforeAnswer: 0).

a.

the problem is that i can do that, but not my (slightly technology-challenged) other half.


the setup i need is to have voice, fax and answering machine on a shared phone line and have them work seamlessly, without the extra cost of distinctive rings, etc.

the feature i am looking for (which i believe is on most fax machines) is that the fax machine is constantly "listening-in" on the phone line and if it detects a fax tone, it takes over.

so that: phone rings, human (or answering machine) picks up, if is fax, fax machine take over seamlessly.

unless i overlooked, i think hylafax (and/or my modem) doesn't do that.

wiring some switch to the serial port to execute faxanswer still doesn't solve the problem of "no one at home, can't get fax because answering machine can't push switch problem".

i figure its probably simplier to go buy a $60 brother fax machine than to add vgetty into the mix.

there used to be a product called fax-pal which is neat but the company busted, and the modem it uses has some compatibility issues with the one my MIL owns.

-cs


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