Re: [hylafax-users] is this possible.

[Chiang Seng Chang <cs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> Depends what features you want...
>
> If you want hylafax to *automatically* answer only certain calls, you
> will need distinctive ring or something like that.
>
> If you can live with answering all your calls yourself, and
> "instructing" hylafax to answer some others, you can use the faxanswer
> command (or write your one simple programe, etc...) connected to
> something like a remote, serial switch, web-page, etc) to tell hylafax
> to answer a line, having it not answer by default (RingsBeforeAnswer: 0).
>
> a.

the problem is that i can do that, but not my (slightly 
technology-challenged) other half.

the setup i need is to have voice, fax and answering machine on a shared 
phone line and have them work seamlessly, without the extra cost of 
distinctive rings, etc.

the feature i am looking for (which i believe is on most fax machines) 
is that the fax machine is constantly "listening-in" on the phone line 
and if it detects a fax tone, it takes over.

so that: phone rings, human (or answering machine) picks up, if is fax, 
fax machine take over seamlessly.

unless i overlooked, i think hylafax (and/or my modem) doesn't do that.

wiring some switch to the serial port to execute faxanswer still doesn't 
solve the problem of "no one at home, can't get fax because answering 
machine can't push switch problem".

i figure its probably simplier to go buy a $60 brother fax machine than 
to add vgetty into the mix.

there used to be a product called fax-pal which is neat but the company 
busted, and the modem it uses has some compatibility issues with the one 
my MIL owns.

-cs


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