Re: [hylafax-users] Multifunction Fax with Seamless Transparent fax gateway capability?

["Rob Townley" <rob.townley@xxxxxxxxx>]

i would love to be able to change HP's firmware.  Alternative firmware
like dd-wrt, but for multifunction machines.  Add asterisk integration
for an answering machine and incoming fax detection.

On 4/28/07, Luke McKee <hojuruku@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That's a good suggestion you can reverse engineer HP's application. It
> shouldn't be too hard with a protocol analyzer. Once we get the Voice
> Answering patch support the other method will work with every MFC with
> a fax functionality and a POTS port :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luke
>
> On 28/04/07, Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I would look at something like the HP MFC (we got M3035 and M4345 in use) or
> > a digital document sender (HP has one which is basicly a scanner with
> > Ethernet). You can use the "Scan to Email" function, set the To: address to
> > the email interface address on your hylafax server and the subject field
> > where they put the number in. Then on the hylafax server the script which
> > receives the email, can take the pdf attachment and the number from the
> > subject and send it out via sendfax.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  ________________________________
> >
> >
> > From: hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob
> > Townley
> >  Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 22:49
> >  To: Luke McKee
> >  Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx;
> > hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >  Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Multifunction Fax with Seamless Transparent
> > fax gateway capability?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Luke,
> >
> >  Thanks for thinking about the problem.  However, i want to do everything
> > over tcp/ip.  The fax machines have 98% of what is needed, they already have
> > email over the lan.  It is just that they do not the software options to fax
> > using email instead of the analog telephone line.  i do not want to plug
> > anything into the analog port at all, i want to use just the Cat5 RJ45
> > ethernet port.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 4/27/07, Luke McKee <hojuruku@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I read somewhere that with a regular SOHO office fax machine you can
> >  configure the line port directly to connect to a fax modem.
> >  There was some script someone configured using mgetty in direct mode
> >  that allowed you to receive faxes without making a call. Google it and
> >  you will find ;)
> >
> >  You may have to hack it around a little to allow hylafax to detect the
> >  number. If and when the voice mode answering support (bug 859) is
> >  included you could configure for the fax machine to listen for the
> >  DTMF id tones dialed by the fax machine as a kind of caller id (it's
> >  used this way in some countries!!)  then the following fax tone
> >  hylafax will answer the call process it as per external fax calls.
> >  Once recieved Hylafax can the process the fax via VOIP/ (t38 in the
> >  future) / IAX / email by using a custom faxrecvd script.
> >
> >  You then configure the hylafax to email the incoming fax based on the
> >  dialrules and whola you have your fax-machine to email fax gateway
> >  (like efax or whatever you want to use).
> >
> >  Just my hairbrained thoughts on the matter.
> >
> >  Cheers,
> >
> >  Luke
> >
> >
> >  On 28/04/07, Rob Townley <rob.townley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  > Is anyone aware of a SOHO multifunction printer, fax, copier, scanner
> > that
> >  > seamlessly interoperates with a fax gateway such as
> >  > http://www.hylafax.org/content/Email_to_Fax_Gateway
> >  > or
> >  > asterfax http://asterfax.sourceforge.net/index.php?
> >  >
> >  > It needs to be absolutely transparent to the end user such that they walk
> >  > up, put in their paper document, enter the fax telephone #, hit fax send
> > and
> >  > walk away.  The multifunction hardware would then know to send an email
> > to
> >  > EmailToFaxGateway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject line
> >  > containing the outgoing fax #.  For instance, if the user enters
> > 4025551234
> >  > on the touchpad, the hardware emails a TIFF or PDF to
> >  > EmailToFaxGateway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject line of
> >  > "4025551234".  The email-to-fax gateway service on the HylaFax server
> > would
> >  > then take the email and send it over POTS to 4025551234.
> >  >
> >  > Why?
> >  > Because in an all VOiP office, moving a fax machine and POTS analog line
> > is
> >  > expensive and a pain.
> >  > Dedicated analog POTS lines are expensive.
> >  > Sending very long documents or hi-res documents would be facilitated
> > because
> >  > they would get "scanned" and sent to the fax server with certainty.  The
> > end
> >  > user could requeue the job in HylaFax if it failed or timed out or the
> > phone
> >  > # was wrong.
> >  > It would double as a networkable scanner.
> >  > Home users would be able to fax directly from their home machine to
> > jfax.com
> >  > or efax.com (Credentialing may be a little complex however).
> >  >
> >  > Multifunction machines similar to the following do not have this seamless
> >  > capability.  It would seem easy to add this as a layer in the firmware
> > for
> >  > outgoing faxes.
> >  >
> >  > HPLJ 3390.
> >  >
> > http://www.brother.com.au/Products/MFC_productoverview.asp?ProductID=220&SubCategoryID=2
> >
> >

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