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RogersAndy
Especially since there was some recent updates, I thought I should do a little write up about the parental controls available on the Ingnite internet.
Many parents worry about what their kids are doing online, how long they are, but are not always aware of all the tools that are available to them.
To manage all these settings, you will need download the rogers ignite wifi app on your phone/tablet, or via the webpage: https://www.rogers.com/ignitewifi/
You will need to log into it with your Myrogers account information which is tied with your ignite account.
The first step may be a little tedious at first, but wont be as bad, only would have to do after you add any new internet devices.
You will want to go to the PEOPLE tab. On this page you can set up tabs for each person in the house. You may want to set up a generic one or two as well, for general devices (I have one called rogers for all the rogers devices, and household one for like smart thermostat, etc)
The next part will be to go over to the DEVICES tab. When on this tab, you should see all the devices connected (or recently connected). Clicking on each device, will bring you to the details about it. Part way down the page should be a spot to ASSIGN the device. Click on it and add it to a user/profile.
Do this for all your devices.
Afterwards, go into one of the users you want to set these controls on. In the top right corner there is a gear icon. This will allow you to set the controls
Parental Controls
Active Time Limit - this will let you set a total active time limit for all devices. This will count across ALL devices in that persons profile. So if they have a PS4 and a phone.. would include online time from both. Once reached, it will pause all their devices from connecting.
You can choose the amount of time. As well, there is a different setting for weekedays vs weekends. So you could give the longer on the weekend days.
Downtime - they have now expanded the 'disconnected' hours. You can now put in more than one timeframe!
You click on schedule downtime, and will give you options of when you want to set it. You can choose which days it applies to, then the time frame. So you can set that it shuts off their internet from 10pm to 8 when they go to school. Allow it the rest of the day until dinner time + homework time, etc.
Parental Controls - only really and on/off option here. "reduce the risk of accessing objectionable websites and apps and enable protective search settings for Google, Bing and YouTube. Viewable content will be deemed appropriate for all ages." Unfortunately no more granular, so no young/vs teen setting. or adding/removing extra sites.
Pause Internet - Outside of setting any of the settings above, you can always manually pause a users internet. Going into that users profile, you can click on the pause button. this will pause their access for 30m, 1h, 2h, or until you choose to un-pause it.
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Good morning @Grahanross2003!
Welcome to our Community!
Did this issue of the parental controls not working only begin recently or have the controls never worked properly for this one household user?
Please let me know.
Regards,
RogersCorey
Hello @Dana6!
Thanks for being a part of our community and great first post! 🙂
I understand that you are having some difficulty with turning off the protected browsing feature via your Ignite TV Hub app. Can you please try clearing your device cache followed by a reboot to see if this resolves the issue? Please keep us posted on the results!
Kind regards,
RogersLaura
@Dana6 I do not use Protected Browsing but I do know that it uses DNS tricks to do its magic; the Ignite gateway basically intercepts that lookup (when a a device tries to access a blocked site) and then either returns an error or a result that will redirect to an error page. The problem is that your devices will have cached these bogus DNS lookup results. Cached DNS records will eventually expire, so you can either wait or you can flush the DNS Cache on your device. (This is different from clearing your web browser cache. If you do not have a way to manually flush the DNS cache on a device, rebooting it should work as well.) I'm not certain of this but after disabling Protected Browsing, you may also need to reboot your Ignite modem/gateway in order to ensure that the DNS cache on the gateway itself gets flushed.
@Dana6 wrote:
Totally understand that but the first step should be that the toggle button on the app will not let me move it to an off position, so it's always considered on. It gives me an error message everytime!!
Yikes! Contact Tech Support... or send a private message to the @CommunityHelps team. Even if this option is stuck On in your app, the Rogers support teams should (hopefully) be able to turn it off centrally.
Hello @MarceloLeandro!
Thank you for joining us in the community forums and congrats on this being your first post here! Hopefully, we can help get to the bottom of this so you can start using the Ignite WiFi Hub app as intended! 🙂
It is odd that there would be restrictions on your devices which are not currently paused. For these affected devices, when added to a profile where WiFi access is enabled, is the access to all apps and websites blocked? Or can they still connect with certain apps or websites? Do you have the Parental Browsing option enabled?
We look forward to your response!
RogersLaura
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RogersYasmine
I created the following (screenshot) parental controls on the ignite router. I connected to https: // 10.0.0.1 and logged in using the admin account. Under Parental Controls > Managed Sites > Blocked Sites, I created a rule to block Youtube from 6am to 9pm all days of the week. But its not working. (I mean youtube is still accessible) What am I missing here?
You have checked at those times on your own devices to see whats happening?
IE: I wonder if say its only blocking youtube being accessed via the browser?
VS it may not be blocking it via the APP itself on mobile devices, etc.
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