Feature Request - Time allowed on Internet.

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bedrosm

• December 07, 2020 01:52

It would be nice if you can add a feature where it allows a user to set how many hours a kids can have internet access for the day. For example, I want my kids to have 3 hours of internet access every day, and once they reached the 3 hours, it will shut off their internet access for the day. I do not what to set a time schedule, just a daily limit on how many hours. This way they use their time wisely.

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  Firewalla

  • December 07, 2020 06:03

  We are starting something in that area soon.  The challenge is to accurately calculate the duration, which hopefully our engineers can improve soon, then the control part will jump in. 

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  Steven Hansen

  • December 11, 2020 06:31

  I would also love that feature. That is great to hear it could be coming.

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  Pete Gillis

  • December 20, 2020 16:33

  This will be great!  I have another thought, perhaps it's a different request.  Is there a way to enable internet but limit the duration relative to clock time and not actual internet usage?  Sort of the opposite of "Block internet for 1-hour".   

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  Firewalla

  • December 20, 2020 17:14

  @pete, is this the snooze function? I think it is there on the list to do as well. 

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  Pete Gillis

  • December 20, 2020 17:26

  yes, I found the other thread that talks about snooze.  That is the one, thanks:-)

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  Ro88durham

  • December 23, 2020 20:08

  Yes, definitely want this "time allotted on Internet" feature--for all the devices in their group together, e.g. 3 hours total between xbox and ipad. 

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  Peter Mendes-Shineberg

  • September 03, 2021 04:36

  I'd like to see not only the ability to limit daily (or even weekly) time on the internet in general, but also to set daily/weekly time limits on activities (e.g., gaming) or on apps (e.g., Discord).  These limits should be implemented as an additional field in rules, which of course could apply to particular devices or groups.

   

  Related to this, I'd like to be able to see daily/weekly reports on usage for internet usage in general, and for particular activities or apps, and to see this for particular devices or groups.

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  geotrouvetout67

  • April 05, 2022 14:30
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  This is an older thread that does not seem to have seen even a beta feature yet, any ETA?
  
  Pretty much all decent routers with parental control have that feature nowadays, my 5 years old Synology router has it, in fact I use the router as an access point and keep using that very useful parental control feature given it is not yet offered by FW. Microsoft also has it on their "Family Safety" app, sometimes it does lack accuracy but it works decently overall, the Synology feature works very precisely although it is not able to control apps time like Microsoft, at least not yet, we'll see when they release the SRM 1.4 update later this year, which will finally support VLAN as well, useful with FW.

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  Carlos Rotver Mora

  • December 21, 2022 20:16

  Hello Firewalla Team,

  Is there an update on this thread / request? 

  Thanks.

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  Shaun Williams

  • January 01, 2023 20:29

  +1 for this.  This is the big gap between Firewalla and Circle. 

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