Est. on an M5StickC
A Wi-Fi doorman for devices that can't sign themselves in.
Connect Alexa, Echo, smart bulbs, printers and consoles to hotel, hostel or campus Wi-Fi that demands a captive portal login or WPA2-Enterprise.
Your smart bulb doesn't have a browser. It will never get past the login page your Wi-Fi shows you. There's no setting you can change, because the device physically cannot complete that login.
Plug an M5StickC into this computer with a USB-C cable, then click Install. Nothing to download and no toolchain to set up.
Needs Chrome or Edge on a desktop, since Safari and Firefox don't support Web Serial. Other browsers can install manually.
Doorman Wi-Fi network. Default password is changeme123.Doorman network.Doorman joins the awkward network as a normal client, then re-broadcasts it as a plain WPA2-PSK network with NAT. Your devices join that one instead.
Because everything leaves through one MAC address, one login covers every device behind it. Sign in once from your phone and your bulb, speaker and printer come online with you.
Doorman is a NAT router. It's the same job your home router does, and the same job your phone does when you switch on a personal hotspot.
It doesn't crack or evade authentication, doesn't defeat the portal (a person logs in through it, normally), doesn't spoof MAC addresses, and doesn't disguise traffic. Your network sees one completely ordinary client. The only thing that changes is how many of your devices fit behind a single login.
Read your network's acceptable use policy. Some cap devices per account or forbid running an access point, and breaking that usually costs you the account. Don't put this on an employer's or university's network: an unregistered access point there is treated as a security incident. Ask whoever runs it instead, since most have a process for registering devices.