WiFi Scheduler Solutions?

[shampoo_banana]

Hi all,

Does anyone know of software that can manage your router and set a schedule? For example, it can shut off the wifi at 10pm every night.

This is based on some recent anecdotal experience with kids who are up all night on their phones/iPads (which seems like a common problem). And honestly I also spend too much time on the internet. It'd be nice to have another solution besides physically unplugging the router.

[31337Logic]

Most modern home router/firewall/WiFi combo units (e.g. from tplink, netgear, Linksys,Asus,etc) already have that feature built into their firmware. Fiddle around and look for something like Parental Controls or Wireless Schedule and hopefully you find it.

If not, (and you're feeling adventurous) I strongly encourage everyone to see if their router supports alternate firmware, like OpenWRT or ddWRT, and use that instead. It will open up a whole new world of access control for you (including WiFi scheduling). Good luck!

[Nextgrid]

If the router doesn't support scheduling itself, but otherwise does allow you to turn off the Wi-FI via the web interface (or change some other setting that would achieve the desired effect of preventing internet access), you can always screen-scrape the web UI and automate it - run the resulting script on a scheduler on some machine that has access to the router.