Re: [hylafax-users] Sharing phone line with other fax machine?

[Laker Netman <laker_netman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes (and no).  Obviously you have run into the issue
of the faxes talking to one another already (that's
the "no" :) The "yes" is that there are several
companies that produce reasonably priced (<$100 US)
hardware devices commonly referred to as fax/modem
switches.
Read the specs carefully, though, as most are just for
routing inbound calls between a fax and voice line.
Some, though, isolate one device from another when it
senses one of them went "off-hook", i.e., to place a
call rather than receive one.
Try googling for "shared outbound phone line fax"

Laker

--- Jerry Kaidor <jerry@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>    Can two fax machines share the same phone line? 
> I'm delighted to have
> hylafax running on my linux box so I can create
> faxes with shell
> scripts and
> unix graphics utilities.  But I still use the fax
> machine on the Windows
> side a lot.  Never at the same time, though.
> 
>    Unfortunately, when I stick them both on the same
> phone line, the Windows
> fax ( actually a Brother MFC9700 multifunction )
> "answers" the outgoing
> call from the Linux fax.  It was a convenient way to
> test the linux fax
> transmission capabilities, but ultimately the plan
> is to fax to other
> machines out there.
> 
>    I suppose it would be possible to have a computer
> controlled switch that
> routed the fax line to one machine or the other.  I
> have a Velleman kit that
> interfaces the USB to a variety of slow analog &
> digital I/O.  But I would
> hate to reinvent that wheel.
> 
>     Hints?
>     Thanks in advance,
> 
>                      - Jerry Kaidor( jerry@xxxxxxx )
> 
> 
> 
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