I’ve looked around and haven’t seen an intuitive way to do it, but maybe it’s just somethingto be added down the road. I’ve noticed the Web interface doesn’t have an obvious way to protect access with a login of the sort.
I know I can disable it all together, but its a useful troubleshooting tool at this point of early experimentations. Did I just miss this option?
What I am worried about is someone gaining access to my WiFi, and then while snooping around have unfettered access to opening my garage. My biggest fear is my 3 children’s friends, who are only SUPPOSED to have guest SSID access, but may end up with full access thanks to my kids.
I guess I really worry since I was that kid in the early 90s who would go to my friends’ houses and edit their parents’ computer’s autoexec file with outlandish echo statements and pauses informing them that Russian spies had taken over their computer, or that their America Online bill had exceeded $250 month to date and a payment was required immediately by calling some inappropriate 1-800 number. I know karma is a *****- well, you know.
Anyway, I have other ways to get there, like white listing access to the IP of the GDO by MAC address, but a login and password seems like a basic roadblock to someone with a short attention span like a teenaged s*** disturber.
Thanks…after my first experience with flashing firmware due to the heads up on random opening with Security 1.0 reboots, I may hold off. I don’t know if I did something wrong, but the device wouldn’t come back until I started over from scratch and started from the beginning of the installation instructions connecting to the wifi network the GDO generates. I thought I had bricked it, and lost a few hours to fiddling. If I need to update again for a critical reason, I’ll take a look at this.
A more advanced, but fully featured, solution is to address your network and use VLANs to isolate devices like this. If you are leaning heavily into a network full of smart devices, family devices, guest devices, etc it may be more beneficial to look into this area. Warning: Heavy tech topic, not for most consumers, but if you’re playing with Home Assistant, I assume you are more experienced than most.
Example: My network has a VLAN for my “local only” devices that can not talk to the internet (blocked by network, not by devices), and the only device outside the VLAN (on a separate VLAN on my network) they can communicate to is my Raspi w/ Home Assistant.
