#430 Answering machine / Fax

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: mau...@gmail.com

It would be nice you could record ongoing calls whenever you want at a click of, lets say, the camera button of your device.

It would be also nice to have a answering machine with fax capability (if you are using some fax friendly codec like ulaw or alaw).

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: r3gis...@gmail.com

Don't know if you noticed but for call recording there is the option in latest dev versions (available on download section). Or maybe your issue is about the fact you have to press menu > record and you'd like me to map it to a hard button? maybe not user friendly... and also not supported by all devices.

As for answering machine and fax interesting idea... However probably not a high priority for me for now. But as the project is opensource... if anybody want to make a contribution for that would be welcome.
Could also be treated as a third party application. Don't know if this kind of feature is necessary for all users. So maybe a solution to provide in CSipSimple an API rich enough to allow a third party application to be an answering machine or a fax receiver could be a better solution.

Summary: Answering machine / Fax
Labels: -Type-Defect -Priority-Medium Type-Enhancement Priority-Low

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: mau...@gmail.com

I am not currently running the dev version, I will give it a try.

As for the fax machine and answering machine... well, it's possible to develop an independent sip piece of software for that. All it would be neccesary at the CSIP end is to know where to transfer the call.

Thinking aloud... how difficult do you think it could be to add IAX protocol in addition to SIP?

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: r3gis...@gmail.com

For IAX read my comments on issue 45 .

For answering machine after reflection, not relevant in a first time for the core CSipSimple app. However could be done as a third party application would make more sense.
Besides, I'd say that the good approach to receive fax if a sip provider allow that is to use SIP message and directly get back a PDF file using SIP message with content type pdf (or png).
I think that fax feature is more relevant in the sip server than in the final client.

However why not, but I mean that's a really specific use case and should be treated by a specialized application. I know that there is some existing piece of gpl software that allow to use SIP for Fax. So I'll help anybody that want to integrate this kind of feature (fax / auto attendant) as a third party app that rely on CSipSimple but I think that integrate it directly in the core project is not a good idea. Plugin approach is better to do that (more user friendly and better in term of design).

Status: WontFix