Caller ID Superfecta Module for FreePBX

General Help
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I am pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of caller ID Superfecta: THE MODULE V2.2.2. (Full release notes here)

Caller ID Superfecta is an easy to install module designed for use with almost any Asterisk/FreePBX/MySQL PBX distribution. It is user interface driven, and requires no special technical capabilities to install and configure.

Version 2.2.2 of the caller ID Superfecta provides worldwide caller ID lookup from multiple sources, and provides support for international caller ID formats of all varieties.

This most recent release of the Caller ID Superfecta includes 27 different data sources, and supports multiple caller ID schemes, that allow the PBX administrator unparalleled flexibility in configuration of inbound caller ID functions. More data sources are added frequently. And just the make sure your Superfecta keeps working at its peak, all data sources can be updated and new sources added online with the click of a mouse using Caller ID Superfecta live data source update – and its all built right into the module.

Distribution Compatibility
This module is compatible with the security models used in the following distributions:
Fonicatec PABX
Foncordiax
PBX In A Flash
TrixBOX CE
Elastix *See Special Installation Steps

Asterisk Version Compatibility
This module has been tested and found to work correctly with Asterisk versions 1.4 and 1.6.

FreePBX Version Compatibility
The caller ID Superfecta module has been tested and found to work correctly with versions 2.5.X and 2.6.x of FreePBX.

Additional Information
Caller ID Superfecta: THE MODULE is a completely open-source project, and supported by the community. No part of the caller ID Superfecta system is in any way obfuscated – all software is open for inspection and modification.

The principal community discussion thread for the module is located here.

The caller ID Superfecta development effort is hosted by the Collective Solutions Group Software Project Management System site.

Tony Shiffer
Project Administrator
Caller ID Superfecta: THE MODULE
CSG Software Project Management

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I am pleased to announce the immediate release and availability of the caller ID Superfecta module for FreePBX version 2.2.3.
http://projects.colsolgrp.net/projects/list_files/superfecta

Scope of Release
In version 2.2.3, several minor bugs were addresses – and support for the new output only data source functionality has been included. As of this release, there are now 33 data sources – those that collect data, and those that announced data through various external methods.
http://projects.colsolgrp.net/versions/show/56

Upon upgrading from previous versions of caller ID Superfecta, all your previous data sources, and their settings should be retained. Note: Some data sources may have different configuration requirements after upgrade than they did before. It’s a good idea to click through each of your selected data sources and make sure that any required configuration items are present, and set as you desire.

“Send to” Data Source Functionality
The Ability to send caller ID data to sources outside the PBX or telephones connected to it has been growing steadily in the forums for the last 30 days or so. The first data source created to send caller ID in this way was a data source to send the caller ID information to a running occurrence of the program XBMC. Since then several others have been added:

source-Send_to_Dreambox.php (Contributed by dev member Peter)
source-Send_to_Squeezebox_Server.php (Contributed by dev member Peter)
source-Send_to_XBMC.php (Contributed by tshif and Developer Patrick)
source-Send_to_YAC.php (Contributed by dev member Peter)
source-Send_to_Winunciator.php (Contributed by tshif, requested by user Cyrano)

These “send only” data sources allow users to send their caller ID information to a wide variety of third-party programs or processes.

The Win-nunciator
The Winnunciator is a little different than the other sources mentioned above. The Win-nunciator data source is designed to work with a companion Windows program called the Superfecta Win-nunciator. The Superfecta Win-nunciator is a lightweight Windows program (less than 10 K. in memory when running), that uses the Microsoft speech API (SAPI) to verbally speak the caller ID name and telephone number at any Windows workstation. The Windows Superfecta Win-nunciator program should be just right to meet several kinds of needs. The Win-nunciator also displays the textual caller ID number and caller ID name while speaking it. To use the “send to Winnunciator” data source, be sure and download the companion Win-nunciator executable setup program, located in the regular Superfecta download repository.
http://projects.colsolgrp.net/projects/list_files/superfecta

Minimum Requirements
As the caller ID Superfecta system evolves, changes are made to support new functionality. As an example, the new “send to” only data sources require the Superfecta version 2.2.3 module to operate correctly. Effective with this release, data sources with known prerequisites such as this will have those prerequisites listed in the flyby help that pops up when you hover over the data source name.

That’s it for 2.2.3 – as always please let us know how the new version, and these really exciting new “send to” data sources work for you.

Additional Information
Caller ID Superfecta: THE MODULE is a completely open-source project, and supported by the community. No part of the caller ID Superfecta system is in any way obfuscated – all software is open for inspection and modification.

The principal community discussion thread for the module is located here.

The caller ID Superfecta development effort is hosted by the Collective Solutions Group Software Project Management System site.

Tony Shiffer
Project Administrator
Caller ID Superfecta: THE MODULE
CSG Software Project Management