Connecting Nest Camera Through Captive Portal

[Patrick01]

Hey guys,

My boss wanted me to connect a Nest Camera in our small calling center. Unfortunately we are renting space in an office building and all devices that are connected to the WIFI in the building must go through browser authentication to get through the captive portal. The Nest cam doesn't have a browser and the tech support for the building have been absent/unhelpful in white-listing the device. Is there a way to bypass the captive portal or are there any (relatively cheap) devices that can connect to the WIFI and broadcast a new signal that doesn't need browser authentication?

Please and thank you.

 

[bill001g]

There is no way to completely avoid it. What you could do is get a router that can use a wireless radio as its wan port. Likely going to have to load third party firmware to do this the cheapest way. Then you plug in the nest device into the lan/wifi You could take a PC and authenticate through the router and since it shares a IP the other device would also pass though. If this is even realistic is going to depend how long before they time out the authentication and make you do it again. If it is too often it will be painful to constantly hook a pc to this router.

You might be able to do it with just a router if you have the skills to write your own scripts. The router third party firmware is linux based but it is a little more tricky to get scripts to run since it has limited storage space.