<div dir="ltr">Hello, we are using Mobile Beacon to provide service for hotspots for checkout, and since we are using Franklin T9/T10 hotspots, we can make use of Franklin's pintrac MDM to configure and manage them.<div><br></div><div>We currently are manually disabling them when they are a few days overdue, and then manually re-enabling them. As with any repeated task, it gets old having to do that over and over again. And it means that there are delays for staff and customers when hotspots are returned outside of normal office hours.</div><div><br></div><div>Pintrac doesn't publish their API, but it isn't too hard to figure out using developer mode to watch the requests being sent. They require an SMS code for each login, which makes it a little trickier. But I'm sure there is a way to handle that with google voice or twilio.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm wondering if anyone has already done the work to create a process to automatically disable the hotspots when they are overdue, and then automatically re-enabled them once they are returned? Or if anyone else is interested in this same thing, maybe we could collaborate on a solution?</div><div><br></div><div>We make use of a bug/feature of the hotspots, where if you set the SSID/Network name to a string longer than 32 characters, the network name still gets displayed, but the wifi doesn't work anymore. So the Device will display the name, but stop working. It makes it easy for customers to see on the device what the problem is.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Josh</div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><table style="padding:0px;margin:10px 0;border:none"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:0 7px 0 0"><img alt="Company logo" height="107" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/signaturesatori/customer-C039u5c5y/images/7DIM6.png" width="125"></td><td style="border-left:3px solid #e8e8e8;padding:7px 0 0 10px">
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