@WeroLuis Go and get your money back. This very thread has been running for over three years. TP-Link have had this issue pointed out to them more times than I've had hot dinners and they've chosen...

I blame myself. I spent $600 on TP-Link Deco mesh hardware without doing my homework. I should have thought to investigate whether TP-Link had bothered to include a thought-out and functional...

@David-TP This is not a solution, it's not even a workaround. It relies on the admin (let's call them a parent) noticing that a new device has joined and then logging in to the management interface...

@TP-Link Firstly, the concept of having a default profile, one with restricted parental controls that all devices/MAC addresses are assigned when first connecting has been raised a number of times...

@Serpenio You nailed it, TP-Link just don't care about the issue. It's sad really, when other vendors can push out meaningful updates in response to concerns raised by their user base but TP-Link...

@mfisch Agreed, this is like buying a firewall and discovering that it has every port open by default.