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Christian_R
Mar 18, 2021NETGEAR Employee Retired
NOTICE: Live Parental Control Service based on OpenDNS will no longer be supported
Live Parental Control service based on OpenDNS will no longer be supported on NETGEAR devices as of December 31, 2021 due to challenges in maintaining the product and low usage. Effective April 1 s...
1_TangoDelta
Mar 28, 2021Aspirant
Hello,
I have been using LPC for a few years now and only noticed this message about LPC being discontinued when I logged in last week to check some settings (which I haven't needed to do for some time now).
I am a bit confused on the wording when Netgear say that from April 1st, support for Live Parental Controls from the NETEGAR genie app and from updated versions of their firmware will be removed. How exactly will that affect me and what do they mean by updated versions of their firmware? When I initially set LPC up, I used the Netgear Genie App, but once that was completed, I uninstalled Genie as I preferred using the web GUI instead to manage my router. Are they talking about the functionality of enabling/disabling etc. LPC from within the Genie App specificially?
Auto-updates on my router are now disabled once I saw LPC was being discontinued and this mention of updated versions of firmware - so providing I don't update my firmware (currently 1.1.0.106), I am OK until December 31st?
My custom config in LPC is copied across to my OpenDNS account - strange that I can log into OpenDNS using my LPC account without having to create a new one?
Thanks.