Disable only Guest SSID and enable with schedule
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There doesn't seem to be a way to do this. Under Wireless settings there's no radio control that I see, and under schedule using SSID, it seems to only be able to use one schedule. If I could make two rules, it would work. Am I missing something? I want the radio to be on at 7am, and off at 7pm. How do I accomplish this?
@Hockeyfreak, I don't quite understand the problem here.
To enable the radio for the guest SSID only between 07:00 and 19:00 you set »Radio On« for this timespan. If it is currently on, the setting will turn it off at 19:00:
If you prefer to turn the radio for the guest SSID off between 19:00 and 07:00 you set »Radio Off« for this timespan:
To turn the radio off right now, you could temporarily set the start time in this profile to now +2 minutes. For example, it's now 10:30, so you would set the start time to 10:32 and save the setting. At 10:32 the radio for this SSID turns off and you change the start time back to 19:00.
Note that a scheduling profile associated with an SSID does not turn the radio off actually, but rather it only enables or disables the SSID.
In my opinion the Action settings should be just »On« and »Off« or even better »Enable« and »Disable« for scheduler profiles associated with an SSID, since it does not turn off the radio which is the same radio as for the second SSID, but just disables the virtual interface for this SSID.
Of course, for profiles associated with an AP the terms »Radio off« / »Radio on« are correct since they turn the radio off or on.
If we create an SSID, then we will see it in the Schedule and we can do radio on or off for this SSID at the specific time.
I want the radio to be on at 7am, and off at 7pm. How do I accomplish this?
Please see the following picture:
@forrest Well, mine doesn't look exactly like that, but similar. I've set up the "turn on radio" rule between 7 and 7. but that assumes the radio is normally off for SSID "Greasemonkeycust", which I can find nowhere to disable the radio as a default basis. It appears you can only have one rule per SSID, so that would be turning it on. I tried to create a rule turning it off, but if I put in 1900-0700, I get an error "end time must be after start time", so there's no way to do it with one rule.
Edit: It doesn't work, the "cust" SSID stays on after 1900.
The only thing I see is the broadcast check box, which I assume isn't the same thing. I want it disabled
@Hockeyfreak, I don't quite understand the problem here.
To enable the radio for the guest SSID only between 07:00 and 19:00 you set »Radio On« for this timespan. If it is currently on, the setting will turn it off at 19:00:
If you prefer to turn the radio for the guest SSID off between 19:00 and 07:00 you set »Radio Off« for this timespan:
To turn the radio off right now, you could temporarily set the start time in this profile to now +2 minutes. For example, it's now 10:30, so you would set the start time to 10:32 and save the setting. At 10:32 the radio for this SSID turns off and you change the start time back to 19:00.
Note that a scheduling profile associated with an SSID does not turn the radio off actually, but rather it only enables or disables the SSID.
In my opinion the Action settings should be just »On« and »Off« or even better »Enable« and »Disable« for scheduler profiles associated with an SSID, since it does not turn off the radio which is the same radio as for the second SSID, but just disables the virtual interface for this SSID.
Of course, for profiles associated with an AP the terms »Radio off« / »Radio on« are correct since they turn the radio off or on.
To enable the radio for the guest SSID only between 07:00 and 19:00 you set »Radio On« for this timespan. If it is currently on, the setting will turn it off at 19:00:
That did not seem to work for me. It had no effect on the SSID "GreaseMonkeyCust" stop showing up after 1900. I actually didn't try to log in to it, I just had the guy that was there check to see if it was still being shown in the WIFI list and it was at 2000. I assume since I set it up, It's going to stay on until I give it an "OFF" command somehow.
If you prefer to turn the radio for the guest SSID off between 19:00 and 07:00 you set »Radio Off« for this timespan:
That is what I ended up doing to try to get it to work. I didn't go in today to see if it worked, but I'll check in the morning and see if it's off when I get there. Line 3 is for Sunday when we're closed. I just think it could have been done a little cleaner to make it more user-friendly with some more options
Works for me.
Just in case: ensure that the EAP has the correct time, timezone and daylight savings time setting (either by NTP or by syncing the system time with the laptop's time). Remember to save the settings.
This is the profile; for the test I used 12:00 to 12:05 for disabling the SSID at the weekend (where I live is Saturday already):
This is the scheduler association:
At 11:59 the GMC SSID is still enabled (actually, the screenshot dates from 11:58:56, the GUI adds few seconds in the display of the time):
At 12:01 it's disabled (screenshot taken at 12:01:18):
Note that there is a short delay caused by the way WiFi surveys work - they (intentionally) show the SSID a bit longer than it actually exists.
At 12:06 it's enabled again (screenshot taken at 12:05:57):
However, if a timespan crosses midnight, I personally would choose the opposite action and the appropriate timespan to not cross midnight.
OTOH, the software could handle midnight-crossing timespans as well.
Agreed. As you said, a button for disabling/enabling the SSID would be nice in the scheduler section (or even better in the wireless settings section) to set an initial state and to manually disable a SSID for an undefined time.
Additionally, a status display which shows whether the SSID is currently disabled or enabled would be helpful, too.
