Firewalla can block/allow activities based on a schedule, say from 10 am to 1 pm.
What this is asking is to aggregate the time spent on certain activities (e.g. gaming), and set a limit for it over a certain period (e.g. throughout a day or week). Firewalla can not do this accurately, and the margin of error is very high.
The technology behind this involves predicting people's behavior at the network level, and it is something very difficult to do accurately at the moment.
Firewalla now supports this via "Users": https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/23857921094675-Firewalla-Feature-Users
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Any update here? It seems to have been promised and then constantly delayed...
Looking for an update regarding this?
This was moved out to 1.973, 1.972 was loaded too many features, and we were late about 2 months on it.
@David,
Agreed, we are experimenting on the time limit to see how much of accuracy we can get.
As for the suggestion of data limit, it is easier to be achieved actually. But we are not sure how practical that is, can you tell us more about the use case you have in mind? What kind of service you are planning to set limits on? You can send the details to help@firewalla.com if you don't mind.
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