Faxing with Obi 100

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BillMcNeal:
I'd like to use my printer/fax combo with my Obi 100 that is on Google Voice.  Are there any settings I need to change on Obitalk.com to optimize this?

SteveInWA:
No; there are no settings on the OBi 100 to change to make this work.  You'll need to buy an OBi 2xx device (200 or 202) for reliable faxing.  The 100 may or may not work with your fax machine.  You can experiment by setting your fax machine to use 9600bps or slower (not 14.4Kbps), and turn error correction off.

-DC-:
I've got an OBi200 and a multifunction fax/printer with Google Voice. In my experience, sending faxes is less than reliable (I haven't tested receiving). I've lowered the baud rate and turned off ECM with no success. (Turning off ECM was actually a bad idea because I ended up sending garbled faxes without knowing it.)

Fortunately my house phone has bluetooth and I can switch to my cell phone for the primary line. When I do that, the faxes go through. With GV it's about a 20% success rate.

What I'm curious about are the fax star codes that I can't find any documentation on.

From firmware release 4581: Added star code variables $fax1 and $ufax1 to support enabling fax and disabling fax respectively, for the immediate next outgoing call only.

azrobert:
You can try this:
http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=6625.msg41922#msg41922

Mango:
Quote from: SteveInWA on November 18, 2015, 05:20:41 pm

[...] and turn error correction off.


Don't forget that while disabling ECM may make faxes appear to go through, you have no guarantee that they will arrive successfully at the other end.  They may arrive, but be unreadable, they may partially arrive, or they may not arrive at all - even if your fax machine says it was sent successfully.

Quote from: azrobert on February 08, 2016, 09:27:25 am

You can try this: http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=6625.msg41922#msg41922


Unfortunately, the OP's OBi110 is not compatible with $NOJI1 and $NOEC1.  This will work on OBi200 and OBi202 for outgoing calls only.

The OBi200 and OBi202 support T.38, the fax protocol, but good luck finding a service provider that also supports T.38.  (Freephoneline does in Canada but I'm unaware of a good American service provider.)  Really the best solution is a fax-to-PDF service.

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