Setting up OPNSense on ProtectLi for home use with parental control (Part 1&2)

Sze(‘Z’) Wong
5 min readMay 2, 2021
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I recently purchased a ProtectLi with OPNSense pre-installed for my home use. Below is the basic setup to accomplish 3 requirements:

  1. Have a simple firewall blocking unwanted sites from children
  2. Create a schedule to shutdown certain machines from accessing the internet

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Sze(‘Z’) Wong

Angel investor. Tech CEO. Startup Coach. CEO@Zerion Software, Coach@HK-PCC and Tech Educator@Berthold Academy. More @ www.szewong.com