General • Allow for some devices, Internet access for 1 hour each day

Hello team!

We have all devices in the same subnet, there is no multiple VLANs in this site, just VLAN 1.
They asked me to give to some devices just 1 hour at a day, Internet access. Without specific time.
Most mobile phones should have this restriction. All mobile phones connects to an no Mikrotik access point, which have no option to do this. But the access point is no applying nat.
I think that hotspot is the only way.
I found the "Session timeout" option in the user profile section, I thing I should use this, but I am not sure.

3 questions:
1) How can I do to refresh automatically the available time every day?
2) Is there a way to apply hotspot just for some devices? I preffer to do not reserve IPs, but I think we have no another option without segment the network. All other devices should have internet access with no authentication if possible.
3) Is this possible to use the same user in all the phones with restriction?

I think I should create another SSID for these devices and configure this new SSID in another VLAN but this should need more time to do this. We have no access to switches just now.

Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Damián

Statistics: Posted by rbuserdl — Wed Apr 16, 2025 6:35 pm

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