Introduction

      Captive portal provides user to configure their Wi-Fi SSID, credentials.On fresh boot-up and factory-reset, Captive Portal prompts to change the default ssid name and password for browsing a any url's on connected client's through Gateway network.

Captive Portal Working

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steps 

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                     On Fresh boot-up/Factor-Reset , User's associated with Emulator Gateway Network. Wi-Fi AccessPoint broadcasting in client Mobile.Now Connect your Mobile devices to default Wi-Fi SSID and Passkey of Emulator Device.

Emulator Wireless Credentials ,

For 2g :  SSID : RDKB-EMU-2.4G and Passkey : 2g-password

For 5g : SSID : RDKB-EMU-5G and passkey : 5g-password

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                            User's can browse any http url's  on connected clients, It will automatically redirects to Captive Portal Page as shown as below

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Next open any web browser on connected client and then try to access any of the http site/WebUI . We observe that http url request gets redirected to default captive portal page as shown as below :

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For example : http://home.icequake.net

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Type http://10.0.0.1:80 in browser

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                   Set your individual Wi-Fi SSID and Passkey for your Emulator device in the captive portal page. Click on Next.

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                      Type GatewayIP:80(eg: 10.0.0.1:80) on connected clinet's browser, WebUI will automatically redirected to Captive Portal

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Click on Next . The New SSID and Passkey is set and then comes out from Captive Portal page.

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                          Enabling and Disabling the captive portal page on fresh boot-up / factory-reset

Code Block
language bash
root@RaspberryPi-Gatewayroot@qemux86broadband:~# dmcli eRTsimu getv Device.DeviceInfo.X_RDKCENTRAL-COM_CaptivePortalEnable CR component name is: eRT.com.cisco.spvtg.ccsp.CR subsystem_prefix eRT. getv from/to component(eRT.com.cisco.spvtg.ccsp.pam): Device.DeviceInfo.X_RDKCENTRAL-COM_CaptivePortalEnable Execution succeed. Parameter 1 name: Device.DeviceInfo.X_RDKCENTRAL-COM_CaptivePortalEnable type: bool, value: false root@RaspberryPi-Gatewayroot@qemux86broadband:~# dmcli eRTsimu setv Device.DeviceInfo.X_RDKCENTRAL-COM_CaptivePortalEnable bool false CR component name is: eRT.com.cisco.spvtg.ccsp.CR subsystem_prefix eRT. setv from/to component(eRT.com.cisco.spvtg.ccsp.pam): Device.DeviceInfo.X_RDKCENTRAL-COM_CaptivePortalEnable Execution succeed.

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If this parameter "Device.DeviceInfo.X_RDKCENTRAL-COM_CaptivePortalEnable" gets enabled, Captive Portal should be UP instead of WebUI.

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                    Login to the device WebUI from your PC. Please follow the below steps,

                    URL : http://10.0.0.1(GatewayIP):80

                     Default login ID and Password : admin and password

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                    If it's first time login , you are prompted to change your default password.Please login again using the New Password.

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Bring the device to Factory Reset Mode :

•  Go to Troubleshooting drop-down menu and select the Reset/Restore Gateway.

                                Click on Restore Factory Settings option, a confirmation window opens and then click 'OK'.

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