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Still having trouble setting bedtime in parental control

Chuckbo
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Still having trouble setting bedtime in parental control

What am I doing wrong trying to set bedtime limits for devices on our Orbi?

 

• I have defined a profile.

• I have added a desktop device to the profile.

• I have created two bedtime settings:

    Sun Tue Thu, bedtime is defined as 10:30 PM - 7;15 AM

    Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat bedtime is defined at 11:00 PM - 9:00 AM.

• It's 11:32 PM, and the device is still accessing the internet.

• I suspected that maybe there was a problem with daylight savings time confusing the system. I've gone to the Admin screen and confirmed that the router thinks the time is 23:32:03.

 

How can a device override the settings for the router?

I have the Omni app running on my iPhone and on my iPad, but the settings are the same. Could that be contributing to the problem?

 

 

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FURRYe38
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Re: Still having trouble setting bedtime in parental control

Any progress on this? 

 

Can use a custom NTP server address.


@Chuckbo wrote:

What am I doing wrong trying to set bedtime limits for devices on our Orbi?

 

• I have defined a profile.

• I have added a desktop device to the profile.

• I have created two bedtime settings:

    Sun Tue Thu, bedtime is defined as 10:30 PM - 7;15 AM

    Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat bedtime is defined at 11:00 PM - 9:00 AM.

• It's 11:32 PM, and the device is still accessing the internet.

• I suspected that maybe there was a problem with daylight savings time confusing the system. I've gone to the Admin screen and confirmed that the router thinks the time is 23:32:03.

 

How can a device override the settings for the router?

I have the Omni app running on my iPhone and on my iPad, but the settings are the same. Could that be contributing to the problem?

 

 


 

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Chuckbo
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Re: Still having trouble setting bedtime in parental control

It depends what you call progress.

 

Before my Smart Parental Controls trial expired, I talked with Support several times. I spent about two and a half hours chatting with them on three occasions to help do troubleshooting. Support finally confirmed that there's a problem with the current firmware and with the current version of the SPC app that does not work with ethernet-connected devices. It was undetermined whether it worked with an earlier version of the firmware or if this is a new problem

 

Support had me submit a bug report about a month ago. But now the bug is in a black hole. There seems to be no way to discover if anyone is working to resolve it or not. One of the support people told me that I could get it escalated if I pay $120, which feels like extortion to me.

 

Chuck

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FURRYe38
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Re: Still having trouble setting bedtime in parental control

Did you contact the forum moderator that posted to your other thread? 

@Blanca_O 

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Chuckbo
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Re: Still having trouble setting bedtime in parental control

I did, so I'm hopeful that I can help find a resolution for SPC.

But she hasn't replied to me yet.

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