Hello Peplink Engineering,
We have some additional features we would like to request for InControl2 with the Captive Porthole features.
Ability to:
Link to a preview page like https://goo.gl/SPL3fb so to allow sharing of a page with a client without the need to have them on the network giving the client the ability to preview and test pages.
Schedule a hourly/daily/weekly export of Captive Porthole data as CSV & XML
Tile/fit (auto-resize)/centre (or top left, top right, bottom right, bottom left) the background image
Make the Social Options/Connect Buttons/Sign In so they are greyed out until the Terms and conditions are ticked
Set the colours for the buttons individually including the colour the button changes to when the mouse is moved over the button or the button is pressed (currently they go are a blue colour)
Be able to edit/amend the “terms and conditions” used with the Social Connect Tab
Be able to edit/amend the “Privacy Policy” used with any tab
Be able to have up multiple Captive Portholes (say up to three (3) to get started with) tied to VLAN & SSIDs on Balance One and Balance 380 ad above routers
For Paid services or an extra fee:
Supply our own domains for use with the Captive Porthole
Be able to change the Powered by Peplink” to our own choice of text & logo
Also we’d like to look at using our own SMS gateway from SMSGlobal (https://www.smsglobal.com), they integrate well here in Australia with all of the carriers and do international services very well also.
One more feature we’d like to look at is being able to monetise the network connection, that is where people need to, through something like a captive porthole, pay for internet access with a payment services such as PayPal, previously we have been using hardware like the NetComm HS1200N (http://www.netcommwireless.com/product/wireless-n-hotspot) and Tomizone (https://www.tomizone.com/) and are aware of other services/equipment too for doing this, though we’d like to move this over to Peplink also, this would be very useful for User Pay subscriber networks.
It is possible we realise that some of this may have already been requested or doable, just we have not yet worked out how.
Hello Peplink Engineering,
Another feature to add would be the ability to download the settings (and graphics) into a ZIP file that can then be uploaded allowing the copying of captive portholes, this would also allow for the creation of templates. We currently are looking at two customers each with about a dozen sites, a way to copy or create a template will save a lot of programming time and reduce the chance of manual data entry errors.
It would also make a lot of sense to be able to make the Captive Portholes & VLANs at an Organisational Level where you can then in the group management choose if the settings are inherited down from above.
InControl release 2.6.0 supported cloning settings from an existing group when creating a group.
Could the feature help? E.g. You create a master group which contains all captive portals that you may need. Upon creating a new group, clone the captive ports from it. Then remove unwanted captive portals from the newly created group.
Hello @Michael,
These cloning setting are certainly a helpful start, I’m yet to see if they will work between different organisations (would allow us to have a base standard template then to get clients started).
One of the requests we keep getting is for us to send the client a link to preview and look at the Captive Portal on there own devices, we understand this is mainly so that the client can test graphics and layouts across different devices.
The other main request is for the automated exporting/emailing of Captive Data Portal reports (weekly & bi-weekly are the most common) with those graphical summaries like seen in this example.
These summaries are already GDPR compliant (from what we see) as they are accumulative data, not individual data, so our colleagues in Europe would be able to benefit from this too.
Sorry, cross-organization operations can hardly be possible in the current system architecture. But as the system evolves, we will try to make cross-organization operations possible in the future.
Please check if allowing your clients to login IC2 as a “Captive Portal Report Viewer” will help. Such user role has captive portal report access right only.
Emailing of reports regularly to our customers is on our roadmap. But we do not a concrete ETA for it.
Hello @Michael,
Are you able to check for us on this request
We have currently five captive portals that our client would like to preview on there own devices without having to attend each site, this is going to be more important as we move forward with another 15 sites due to be done soon.
Can Peplink please help us all with a better way to help the client(s) with a way to preview/review a captive portal when the client (and the integrator) are not able to conveniently attend site and that is more related to the organisation group than the physical device?
This may also be very useful for those using the Peplink "Ad Delivery Service (ADS) who are looking for a way to have there client(s) verify a campaign before it goes live?
Happy to Help,
Marcus
In later releases, in the CP profile page, we will display a preview URL. You could copy it and send it to your customers for previewing the CP. For ADS preview, I will leave it to ADS team to comment.
Hello @Michael,
We look forward to seeing that feature become available, being able to let the customer test on their various devices/platforms how the Captive Portal will look and behave is terrific.
Hello @Wing,
As soon as reasonable, we have over the next 3 months on average one Captive Portal a week to send to the client, hopefully other members here will find this feature helpful for there customers too.
The only way we know of currently create this a link is to be locally connected directly to the Balance/Pepwave and then to reverse engineer or copy the landing page URL, if we are not at site then how do we create a URL to send to the clients allowing them to preview the Captive Portal pages?
We are sure many others could benefit from this also.
Happy to Help,
Marcus
The feature is already available in IC 2.8. IC 2.8.1 shall be out to Venus in 2 weeks tentatively. And it shall come to Mars and Earth 2 to 3 weeks after Venus.
