Shutdown vlan/wifi on schedule

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Just sharing my experience on this.

Couple of key components I used to control wifi device internet access:

  1. DHCP/dynamic MAC/Static IP
    You need something to identify the device to control it, i.e. device MAC, static IP. Dynamic MAC or random MAC on a lot of device wifi modems make it difficult, if not impossible. So either lock down the device to only use device MAC to connect, or lock down the wifi router to only accept the device MAC, i.e. whitelist MAC.

  2. automation/schedule
    In order to do HA automation, you need a router HA can communicate directly or indirectly to change internet access.

My setup started with getting a list of device MAC and whitelist them in the router where I can use the router scheduling or control the connection from HA.

My AC68 had parental control - time scheduling in combination with MAC whitelist works to control internet access (devices still connect to the router and lan but no internet access). I also have python script to control the parental control settings from HA.

Hope that helps.