Reiterating - universal time limit…

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Dan

• May 30, 2025 00:18

I think I understood that the ability to restrict a particular device to a set number of hours of daily access is something that’s being worked on? If that is the case, any updates?

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  Firewalla

  • May 30, 2025 03:32

  We are working on this. It is a hard problem to tackle, but a priority for us to make it. (may not be 100 accurate)

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  Gary A

  • May 31, 2025 22:18

  This is a tough nut to crack. The problem is defining "access". When the device is powered up and connected to the network, there is usually some backgound traffic (noise) even when the user isn't actively using it. Unless you have somne way of excluding that noise, the counting of hours of access is very inaccurate, almost to the point of being useless. Of course if the device is always turned off when not being actively used, it would work fine. Then again, if the wizards at Firewalla could figure out how to exclude the background traffic, that would be amazing. 

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  Dan

  • June 01, 2025 12:25

  The Circle parental control app does this quite well - at least the hardware box version we’ve used, which also installs a VPN. Unfortunately, Circle appears to be deprecating the hardware box version, which has other capabilities that we need, and the VPN version is now rolled in with a suite of “value added” services that are pretty intrusive and useless.

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