denzs
commented
4 years ago Hi!
Thank you for your feedback!
We will investigate your suggestion of a dedicated discussion platform beside the github issue tracker.
In the past, the issue tracker was used like this by some people, but it definitively makes sense to have a dedicated platform for discussions and exchange of know how and configs...
At the moment Markus' talk from the "Chemnitzer Linux Tage" is propably the document which would come closest to some thing like "high level documentation". -> https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2015/de/programm/beitrag/249
We will extend the Readme with some information to address this.
And yes your are right, GOfax.IP itself has nothing to do with all the heavy fax lifting. FreeSWITCH/mod_sofia is used for the SIP parts and FreeSWITCH/mod_spandsp is used for all the difficult fax parts like T.30/T.38/ECM and so on..
andraskende
Hi,
made my way through my first gofaxip+freeswitch install, sent the first faxes, great work :-)
On the way, I had quite a few stumbling points, mostly related to "freeswitch not talking to our 3CX PBX" - something for which the answers are not easy to find, because 3CX people do not know anything about freeswitch, and freeswitch documentation is way larger than the subset required to make GoFaxIP work. So, what I would have liked is a GoFaxIP mailing list or forum to discuss this sort of questions... is there something? Or is "github issues" what you recommend for "end user questions"?
While at it :-) - is there some sort of highlevel documentation how the different components interact? Like, which component is responsible for ECM handling? Is this done by GoFaxIP, or is the fax "just handed over" to FreeSwitch, and something there (spandsp?) handles it?
From what I read between the lines, it seems FreeSwitch/SpanDSP do all the heavy lifting - not only software DSP stuff, but also T.30 handling, ECM, etc. - but I might have misinterpreted something.
Another thing that would be very nice to have is a list of "sample gateway/default.xml" files for various PBXes people use - like, 3CX. Willing to contribute to that.