I’m using 'tiks for CPE routers and kid control is an awesome feature. I’d really like a much better webui for it though, or maybe a smartphone AP.
It’s not intuitive at all to add a device to a kid. I’d like some add buttons or something in the device list to make this actually easy.
Also, a calendar selector, the date formware 'tik uses isn’t friendly to non-admins.
finally, the ‘pause’ feature doesn’t work as you’d expect. if I ‘pause’ a kid, it instantly suspends their devices because I’m ‘pausing the kid’. That’s fine, but I need to ‘suspend kid control’ for x amount of time so a kid can ask a parent to use a device outside of hours. There is ‘disable’ which does the task, but the UI is really ugly there and it’s super easy to just delete the kid.
I agree, the calendar widget for specifying time range is not intuitive. Even after reading documentation on it, it’s not always clear, depending on what time range you’re wanting to put in.
An app for managing kid control would be especially useful in such a way:
name of kid
an indicator for whether they’re blocked or allowed (red means blocked, green means not blocked, yellow could mean allowed within their allowed time range in which case green would mean manually overridden)
Managing what devices belong to which kid shouldn’t need to be included on this app, in my opinion, nor managing schedules. Just being able to see at a glance who’s got access to Internet, who doesn’t, and being able to manually override whether they’re blocked or not blocked from this very simplified gui I think would be perfect.