Time limit for category not just individual app

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Henry Curran

• June 19, 2024 11:50

Hi there - I would find it so helpful if there were a way of setting a time limit for a category as well as individual apps... It would be great to be able to set it so that my son can have e.g. 1 hour of gaming on a weekday.  If I set 1 hour of roblox, and 1 hour of fortnite, and 1 hour of another game he could spend 3 hours gaming, which isn't what I'd like... 

Thanks!

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  Firewalla

  • June 19, 2024 16:43

  For now (as of June 2024) is not possible to limit category. The reason is that categories are relatively big, and behaviors of apps within categories (such as gaming) can be so many things. So to do everything accurately is not yet possible. And this is the reason we went focus on individual apps. 

   

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  Henry Curran

  • June 20, 2024 07:48

  Thanks very much for your response, which I very much understand. It just seems to me that at the moment I can block gaming activity and then pause the block for a particular period of time, which is nearly what I need but not quite.  To have it blocked but to be able to allow a, say, two hour pause on the block each day would be very helpful.  I understand it's not possible at the moment and that it may never be possible, but I do think it's worth considering.

  Thanks!

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  Elric667

  • August 29, 2024 21:36

  If this can be added or allow for us to create Groups of apps that we can then set a Time limit on would be great.  I want to block certain games and video services for a single time limit.  Adding the ability to create groups of applications on which we can set a time limit would greatly help with parental control.

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  Henry Curran

  • August 30, 2024 10:18

  that idea of grouping apps would be brilliant - if I could give my son a certain amount of 'gaming time' and it be left to him to decide whether he's going to 'spend' that on roblox or fortnite, for example, would be brilliant.

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  Firewalla

  • August 30, 2024 15:35

  This is possible once we have more apps; at the moment of my writing, there is only a handful, grouping say two games together may be too early (as of now)

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  Youness El amraoui

  • September 02, 2024 23:09

  My be set category is good idea. This example of use case: I set 1 houre limit time for roblox but I have already gaming block on. How can I give only 1 hour Roblox without manually pause the second rule?

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  Allen Mueller

  • October 21, 2024 04:03

  I want this as well. Want to limit Netflix and Disney to 1 hour combined, for example.

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  Ben Larkins

  • March 11, 2025 13:57

  OP I'm coming here to second this.  @firewalla, is there no way to just do a wholesale schedule for "internet shut down"?  I'm migrating from Google Family Link as I don't need it anymore thanks for FW and off prem re-routing back to my home network via VPN...however one thing that's missing is screen time limits.  This could be accomplished if there was the introduction (to I think OP's point) of a schedule for internet access.  So instead of me hitting the button for "internet off" it just "turns off" after a certain amount of time (or if not possible, then only during certain hours).

  If this was possible, then step 2 would be to create an "allow only" rule, so basic functionality still remains (ie only allow google messages).  

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