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‘Smart’ wifi devices and my accommodation internet setups doesn’t want to work with each other (alien.top)

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Hey guys got a question about wifi and ‘smart’ light bars not sure if you can help:

The accommodation im staying in right now have a common wifi we connect to, it doesnt have a password on itself but once connected theres a pop up browser screen where you put in your log in details and go from there.

Problem being my current smart led light bar’s software does not account for this issue, in the app where it ask for wifi details - it only asks you to put in password to the wifi which obviously there isnt one and there is no pop up screen for me to put in login details after that step, I don’t think the app is designed to accommodate for this feature.

What can I do in this case? I have a ethernet port in my place and it’s connected via the same way that wifi does - a browser screen pop up that I can enter the logon details into. I was think would hooking up a mini router (like those gl.inet mango routers) to that and create a ‘wifi’ of my own through that, would it work?

Sorry if i got any terminology wrong. Happy to provide more details if needed.

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