Kelvin Tan - Solr/Elasticsearch Consultant - Improving EasyHotSpot usability

Improving EasyHotSpot usability

Posted by Kelvin on 03 Apr 2011 at 05:21 pm | Tagged as: Ubuntu

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the Ubuntu Hotspot with Daily Per-User Quotas series

Here are some changes I made to make EasyHotSpot more usable.. If you are interested in any of these changes, just drop me a mail and I'll email them to you.

1. Allow voucher generation to accept usernames instead of just numberofvouchers
2. Integration of SquidGuard for blocking ads, trackers, etc

In the future, I also hope to add:

1. Allowing users to change their own password
2. Informing users of their quota status (how many MBs they have left)
3. MAC address passthrough for authorized users

Ubuntu Hotspot with Daily Per-User Quotas

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http://www.targo.ca Louis

Hello Kelvin, thank for sharing your knowledge to the community.

I am interested in your tweak for the daily vouchers.

thanks,

Louis
Kelvin

Hey Louis, I've uploaded the patched files for you that allows specification of voucher usernames. Backup your easyhotspot/htdocs/system folder, then copy these files over, replacing the ones that are already there.

I also included a patched password generation function that generates passwords from a larger set of characters.

Get it here: http://downloads.supermind.org/easyhotspot-0.2-voucherpatch.tar.gz
http://www.internix.com.au ARamay

Dear Kelvin,
Also changing from Chillispot to CoovaChilli might be an option as chillispot is dead and CoovaChilli branched off from Chillispot so its the same thing but with a few bugfixes & more development.

Thankyou for the Patches for easy hotspot i was looking to do something like that.

Also if you want to use a Daily counter all you need to do is changed the SQL statement in the Oclets accounting calculations to only read from radacct entries for that day, there are samples in the counter sql file for doing a daily reset limit.

thou i am interested in putting a daily usage limit on the Postpaid plans, so i am looking into how the Accounting counters work between Chilli & Radius … if someone knows can you please contact me ?

Thanking you… & once again great work with the Easyhotspot Mod.
Mike

Thanks for you your articles here, I will follow your ongoing work with the modding of EasyHotspot. A software bundle I liked for being one of the very very few straightforward tries to create a simple enough setup.

As my wishes are particular like any one elses, your changes and comments on the bundle is very helpful in giving ideas for similar changes on my side.

What I am doing is completely ignoring quotas except "fair usage" limits and instead change the annoying minute counters to days and the validity to years. (We've set the validity of one voucher to two years).

Every new connect within a new 24h period ticks of one day from the voucher.

Well, will keep you posted on that.

Again, thanks! //Mike
Andre

Hey.thnx for that,am trying to setup a hotspot in my bar.will try this out.expect noob questions though
rizalhanafi

Thanks for the great insight. I am searching for a solution to implement in my workplace (a school). I am wondering if these implementation of yours is suitable for my it network environment.

My network hardware config are WAN > 4*adsl router > copper bonding (port trunking router) > exinda bandwidth monitoring > cisco core-switch > 3* 24port cisco switches>>3 fibre channels>> 3*24port cisco switches(+ 6 cisco access points ) > 500+ clients (150 pc + 350 notebooks). The clients are to be categorized into 2 major groups– teachers (no data limits, access log), students (access restrictions, data limits, access log).

All the network ip are dynamically are dhcp served by the core switch using 5 vlans. The access should be subscription based and filtered (pref: squidguard).

Q1. At which point of my network should i deploy the server.

Q2. Could I create another subnet to facilitate more 254 clients using a router as an add-on to the network.

Please advise me
http://www.cheavens.com/mark Mark Cheaven

Great write up. I hope to implement many of these features for a small private school that I do (free) consulting work for. I have been looking for a customizable captive portal with daily limits as well as integrating squidguard into it. Have you looked at MAC passthrough yet?

Currently I am using a (not very flexible) solution with just overall bandwidth limits per user, time restriction limits, as well as squidguard. It is using IP Cop. Just not easy for the school to administer.

Mark
fad

how to make the timer is running all the time even client had logged out.. so i can set the voucher validity more longer. example like a client buy voucher that for 24 hours only and the validity of the voucher i set to 1 month. As i see when client had logged out the timer will stop at the time and continue again from the time they stop.
http://www.hi5tech.org Het Kotak

I am waiting for your future updates 🙂
http://twitter.com/saykom Saykom Network

Hi,
i have installed easyhotspot on my ubuntu desktop and its really working well. However, i would like to 1.generate vouchers to ACCEPT USERNAMES INSTEAD OF JUST NUMBER OF VOUCHERS.
2. Allowing users to change their own password
3. Informing users of their quota status (how many MBs they have left)
4. MAC address passthrough for authorized users
Anyone with the idea of how to go about it email me to bonyaga@hotmail.com

Kelvin i tried to find your email so that i can request you send me of how to go about it but i couldnt trace your email.
Javier

Hi Kelvin,
I have installed easyhotspot and liked it. However, I'm interested on trying some of your improvements specially

"Informing users of their quota status (how many MBs they have left)"

What is the development state for this feature?

I would also appreciate if you can provide me the rest of the mods.

Thanks in advance,

Javier.
Armient

hello kelvin……
can sent me the patch for easyhotspot…
aremient@gmail.com…
Thanks…
eadile

Hello Kelvin,

I nee MAC address passthrough for authorized users can you send it to me.

Thanks.
mohd helmi che hamid

hye kelvin! im impressed with you article but i dont know to to apply it to my easyhotspot system.
can you make a new distro (iso image disk) with all the improvement and upload it?so i can setup new system that improved by you.. 🙂
thank you.. 🙂
http://www.facebook.com/cicakpoyo Cicak Poyo

HiKelvin, i cannot download your patch.. can you update your link or send me patch document to my email : cicak_poyo@yahoo.com
Kazibwej

Hello Kelvin, thank for sharing your knowledge, I am interested in your tweak for the MAC address passthrough for authorized users. please
Bruceleung2000

Hello Kelvin,
Have you tested the EasyHotSpot whether it is working for iphone ? since I cannot make it working for iphone connection, but Android mobile phones are working fine. Could you tell us what custom config for iphone (or Apple products) ?
http://twitter.com/MforBiz Cosimo Mercuro

Hi Kelvin.
I'm very interested to your work on EasyHotSpot.
Actually I'm triyng the software but I've noted that everytime a user connect via web borwser (i.e. chrome) to the HotSpot, He must provide credentials (username and password) defined in the voucher assigned to him.
This is very tedious!
Is there any way to store (locally on the client or on the server) users credentials so that the user must provide assigned credential on its device only one time (the first time the user login to EasyHotSpot)?
Thanks in advance.
Dmitry Khartsy

http://wifi-hotspot.zp.ua/hotspot_demo_eng
(admin|admin123)
ngbacong

Dear You.

You can share some features in admincp? If possible please send me e-mail: ngbacong@gmail.com,

Thanks You.
Restina Sakalani

Hi all Im new member in community. When I created a voucher on Easyhotspot and try to login I get error Failed to log in . please any help
Restina Sakalani

Please help me to get user guide for changing from Chillispot to CoovaChilli
Eric Kirima

Hi Kelvin Tan

Am very much impressed by your work on easyhotspot. Would you please send me a copy of the easyhotpot web files
my email is : ekirima@gmail.com

Thanks
Optimist

Hello Kelvin,
I have installed and configured easyhotspot in ubuntu server. So when connected to the wifi or LAN the browser automatically directs the user to the easyhotspot login page. But the vouchers generated are not working. When I tried to login with the vouchers generated, It says login failed.
Eric Kirima

Hey Kelvin, Would you please email me the changes you made to Easyhotspot. I working on rebuilding it but using latest technologies such as angular 2 for fronted and Laravel backend
my email is ekirima@gmail.com.

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