Re: [hylafax-users] Using HylaFAX with answering machine on same line

["Rob Poe" <rpoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

They make a little "black box" device that will pick up and listen for fax tones.  It picks up the line and sends a "ringing" sound to the other end, and if it hears the fax "beep" it rings the fax.  Otherwise it sends it to the voice device.



>>> John Hudak <john.j.hudak@xxxxxxxxxxx> 7/3/2006 8:48 AM >>>
Thank you for the pointer.

Yes, I did search the archives and found the useful information from 
George Ball (well at least one posting).  I'd like to pose the question: 
Is there a way to do this without using distinctive ring?  I've used 
Brother and HP machines that accomplish this by letting the answering 
machine pick up the incoming call and the FAX machine 'listens in'....If 
it hears the FAX tones, it switches the line from the answering machine 
to itself.
One way of accomplishing this is to build a circuit to reconfigure the 
ring and tip lines depending on the incoming sounds.  I would still need 
to generate a digital signal from the FAX computer to the switch. 
Any other suggestions/approaches to overcome this situation?
Thanks
John


Lee Howard wrote:

> John Hudak wrote:
>
>> I've been using HylaFAX with RH9 on a dedicated phone line for a 
>> while with no problems.  My situation has changed in that I now need 
>> to share a phone line with an voice answering machine.  So the 
>> question is how to distinguish between an incoming FAX or voice call.
>
>
>
> You'll want to get a "distinctive ring" feature from your telephone 
> company and then instruct to not answer the voice ring sequence.
>
> Search the archives for "distinctive ring" and you'll find some very 
> useful information from George Bell.
>
> Lee.
>
>


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