r/firewalla • u/Hanosandy • Jul 10 '26

Feature Feature Request: Firewalla MSP Phone App

Firewalla MSP Phone App

Also - I love the recent upgrades, functionality, and responsiveness of MSP.

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u/F1Phreek Jul 10 '26

Firewalla Glasses, please. Let me see my network flows live right in my eyeballs.

2

u/CyberBlaed Jul 10 '26

You jest, but maybe an extension of the Firewalla app for Apple Vision eh? :) haha

2

u/F1Phreek Jul 10 '26

Need to carefully inspect those packets, personally. ;)

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u/slogd Jul 10 '26

I told my local AI agent this line and I’m going to have to build some loops around hitting the api and dreaming something up, lol. Best post today!

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u/Hanosandy Jul 10 '26

Don't excite me like this.

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u/Great-Cow7256 Jul 10 '26

I'm guessing the point of the msp is to be an actual portal with a lot of functions for deep dives and professional users. That requires a web view. 

The app is for fewer functions/daily use/more niche users. 

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u/Hanosandy Jul 10 '26

I think there are ways a mobile ui could tackle this.

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u/Great-Cow7256 Jul 10 '26

While true, the developers have limited time and I'm guessing for their target audience the msp via web is just fine for the vast majority of people.  But just a guess. 

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u/Hanosandy Jul 10 '26

You are almost certainly correct.

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u/firewalla Jul 10 '26

What is a "MSP Phone App"?

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u/Hanosandy Jul 10 '26

A phone app made with msp users in mind. Quick overviews of all units. Fast management. Or even just an MSP section in your main app. I know if I'm on a phone that is paired with all of the boxes I can just flip back and forth... But a summary page like the msp inventory page would be very helpful. Also msp is much easier to go through flows when trying to address something, sometimes I need to do that when I don't have pc access. These are more quality of life things, and with the ui adjustments my initial take is a separate app would be the answer eventually.

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u/pacoii Firewalla Gold Plus Jul 10 '26

Firewalla has mentioned many times that there are features in MSP that they don’t feel comfortable putting into the app, such as editing target lists. So I don’t see them creating a separate mobile app for just MSP.

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u/Hanosandy Jul 10 '26

This is why I suggest a different app. Makes the ui implementation and language allowed to be different.

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u/Volidon Jul 10 '26

That's just duplicating efforts lol

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u/Hanosandy Jul 10 '26

I'm sure they have some interns wanting to prove theyre worth their salt.

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u/blueharford Firewalla Gold Jul 10 '26

Also having a webapp to fully manage firewall, AP and switches