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    Captive Portal Free Wifi with Hard Timeout & Vouchers

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      ZuZu 0
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      Good morning!

      after doing alot of research and scrambling through many posts:

      What I need:

      • 1 SSID with 1x CP
      • Guests can connect to the Wi-Fi and surf for free (1 Token, 12 Hours (Hard Timeout), this token gets reset every 21 Days.
      • If the guests want to continue surfing the web, they can buy a voucher, this voucher has a duration of ~20 days.

      Problem:

      • After doing a lot of testing, and annoying many people, everything works up until the Timeout, no matter if you have a voucher or not, you will be disconnected, which means, everyone who buys the Wi-Fi gets to type in the code every 12 hours.

      How can I fix this, is there any way in the captiveportal.inc or maybe a script to disconnect unauth. users after 12 Hours and so on?

      I would really be grateful for any help. Boss I think wants my head at the moment :.

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        Gertjan @ZuZu 0
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        What I understood :
        Initially, everybody can obtain a free voucher, good for 12 hours.

        @zuzu-0 said in Captive Portal Free Wifi with Hard Timeout & Vouchers:

        no matter if you have a voucher or not

        What do you mean by "voucher or not' ? People can connect without a voucher ?

        The duration of a voucher can't be changed after creation.
        When users switch from the "12 hours" to a "21 days", they switch vouchers, right ?

        It is - in theory - possible to reset the "moment of first usage" of a voucher but this needs coding.

        @zuzu-0 said in Captive Portal Free Wifi with Hard Timeout & Vouchers:

        everyone who buys the Wi-Fi gets to type in the code every 12 hours

        The "hard time" out will throw out any connection. Users that use vouchers that are still valid can / have to reconnect, that's correct. Probably not convenient for you, I understand.
        You've tried a "hard time" out of "20 days" ?

        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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