OBI202 and Faxing
Shale:
Glad you like it. It has been useful to me.
It has been a while since I looked at the documentation. Upon searching a bit, I find that there is an XML plugin. http://manual.winmerge.org/Plugins.html That plugin is not needed for the OBI backup files, since the OBI XML items are all terminated with linefeed (LF = ctrl+J = 0xa) characters. I see WinMerge can work with CR, LF, and CRLF terminated lines, and you can choose to ignore the difference during compares.
I also see that it has a PDF plugin. I have used a PDF diff program, but I have yet to try compare PDF files in WinMerge.
Lavarock7:
After a long night of testing (and making sure I didn't once dial somebodies home phone and wake them up).. I had mixed success.
Swapping power supplies no difference
Tried to configure by uploading my config, had a bit of prob configuring SP1, no difference
took my good unit and changed GV to their acct, fax got error 345
tried fax again, did not connect
changed back to my gv account, err 344
Tried again, 346
Finally decided that since Callcentric and the Obi202 can both do T.38 (and Voip.Ms, my provider doesn't yet), I tried this test:
I configured an Obi202 to connect to a callcentric account. There I configured my free NYC number to go to Fax. I know CC fax works well receiving.
This allows me to mostly simulate sending a fax to a landline (although not quite).
The fax machine connects to CC as an extension, then I call the other extension which receives the fax. That worked consistently.
We bought a local number because we do get faxes in from people out here and we wanted a local number. Rather than pay to move that number also to callcentric, I configured and tested this:
The local number forwards to a SIP URI (connected to my local NYC number) at CallCentric which goes to the virtual fax machine, which send the fax to us by email as a PDF. Works well too. I know it sounds complicated but if it is supported and works, I'm happy with it.
The next test is to change the account to a pay per call and start faxing to a real fax machine situated back here in Hawaii (on a DSL connection). If that works, then I will keep the account for faxing. I don't really know how much faxing they are doing (it's a delicate question because the secretary is not technically proficient and there is nobody to help her). She may be faxing instead of directing people to the website for info. They faxed lots of stuff to the mainland at a tremendous cost, so we are diplomatically trying to see what's up and how we can cut costs. Their current system is a business line at $45 a month, thus the move to try to lower all costs to maybe $5 a month!
I have farming to do today, so I may have to shelve this problem for a while.
azrobert:
Quote from: Lavarock7 on September 27, 2013, 01:45:18 pm
We bought a local number because we do get faxes in from people out here and we wanted a local number. Rather than pay to move that number also to callcentric, I configured and tested this:
The local number forwards to a SIP URI (connected to my local NYC number) at CallCentric which goes to the virtual fax machine, which send the fax to us by email as a PDF. Works well too. I know it sounds complicated but if it is supported and works, I'm happy with it.
You can route the fax to your Callcentric account number instead of the N.Y. number.
I used my OBi110 and GV to send faxes to Callcentric.
This is my inbound call route for my GV trunk:
{sp2(17771234567@in.callcentric.com;ui=$1)}
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