Custom Alarms?

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David Osborne

• November 06, 2020 03:52

I couldn't find anything about this, so here we go.

Can we have a feature to define our own alarm? For instance, I don't want to block Youtube entirely, but I want to get an alert if my kid's computer fires it up at 2AM. Good criteria would be blocks of time, specific domain, and I suppose any other criteria utilized in the current alarm system. Ideally this would be a combination of text fields for domains and such, and dropdowns for variables already in the alarm system.

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  Firewalla

  • November 06, 2020 07:48

  recorded, thanks!

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  Ro88durham

  • December 10, 2020 02:56

  Yes, this is exactly what I'm looking for.  I don't want to necessarily block Youtube but I want to know when it is being accessed.  Please give us this functionality. 

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  Steve

  • January 29, 2021 18:46

  One more vote for this feature! I can set up a custom block for a URL, but that is not really what I want... I only to present a "trip wire" that alerts the administrator without actually blocking the URL.

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  Cbouvia

  • April 29, 2022 16:38

  Bump. Just recently purchased a Firewalla, and would like to have this feature.

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  Roland

  • October 25, 2022 10:07
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  Yes customizable alerts would be amazing. Also to forward specific alerts to someone else (by mail or whatever).

  If customized rules are developed the possibilities are endless; I want to know as soon as someone is starting up a video conference in my home to avoid being too loud (with working/studying from home thats a bit of a pain). The Firewalla already recognizes the traffic of Teams, Webex, etc so if there's a significant spike (and decline ones hanged up) you can indicate a video conference is going on. 

  But also for example to get an alert as soon as the phone of one of the kids is connecting to the network (and disconnecting).  

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  Paul C.

  • December 11, 2024 21:25
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  Upvoting this feature request. We can create target lists with sites/domains/IPs, write rules to block or allow a target list, and even categorize them (pr0n, Gaming, Social), but what good is a category for a target list if you can't alarm on it like the default alarms do?

  Ability to create custom alarms should be a fundamental part of any firewall IMO.

  Thanks in advance @firewalla!

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