Digital Presence (Timeline)
Where to find the Digital Presence/Timeline feature
What is in the Digital Presence/Timeline page?
Set up Digital Presence alerts
Digital Presence log (Timeline)
How to use the Digital Presence feature: Video
What is Digital Presence
Fingbox's Digital Presence (or Timeline) is a feature that shows you who is on your network, so you can see who is in your home or office. With Digital Presence, you can set up user profiles and assign devices to your users.
Control Fingbox features from the Fing Mobile App on iOS or Android. To do this:
- From Overview, click the circular icon with three dots at the top right of the page
- This will open the My Networks page. Here, click on the network with the Fingbox icon beside it.
Where to find the Digital Presence/Timeline feature
The Digital Presence/Timeline feature is the People tab. To locate this:
Fing Mobile App
- Click Overview in the bottom toolbar
- Click the Users widget. Alternatively, click the Online Devices widget and then click the People tab.
Fing Desktop
Click the People tab on the left sidebar. Alternatively, from Overview click the Users widget.
Assign Users
Assigning a user to a device will let you know who owns selected devices on your network, such as family members or home service providers.
Fing Mobile App
- From Overview, click the Users widget. Alternatively, click the Online Devices widget and then click the People tab.
- Click the blue Add user button
- This will bring you to the Edit page. Here, you can add a name, photo, gender, category such as family or friend, and select the devices that belong to the user.
- Click Save at the top right of the screen
Fing Desktop
- Click the People tab on the left sidebar. Alternatively, from Overview click the Users widget.
- Click the Add user button
- Enter a Display name and select a Contact Type
- Click the blue Continue button
- Select the user's devices and click Save
Set up a Presence Device
You can assign multiple devices to users but only one Presence Device (or Personal Device). A Presence Device is the device you assign to a user that you will get alerts from. For example, if your child's presence device is their phone, you will be notified if this device has entered your network when your child comes home, or if this device is online or offline. You may have assigned other devices to your child such as their laptop and smart watch, but you will not get alerts if these devices join your network or go online or offline.
This is why we recommend selecting a mobile phone as a Presence Device. Select the device that the person carries with them 24/7. A tablet or smartwatch may be other good options.
To assign a user's presence device:
Fing Mobile App
- From Overview, click the Users widget. Alternatively, click the Online Devices widget and then click the People tab.
- Click the blue Add user button
- This will bring you to the Edit page. Here, select the devices that belong to the user.
- When you have the devices selected, a blue Change button will appear beside the devices. Click the Change button and select 'Yes, it's a personal device' to make a device a user's presence device. The Change button will now change to a blue Presence button. Click 'No, it may be left behind' if you do not want to make a device a user's personal device.
- Click Save in the top right corner of the screen
Fing Desktop
- Click the People tab on the left sidebar. Alternatively, from Overview click the Users widget.
- Click the Add user button
- Enter a Display name and select a Contact Type
- Click the blue Continue button
- Select the devices that belong to the user
- When you have multiple devices selected, a grey button that says Other device will appear beside each device. Click this button beside the device you wish to be the user's Presence device and the button will change to say Presence device.
- Click Save
What is in the Digital Presence/Timeline page?
In the People tab you will see the following:
- Users Carousel: This is a row of circular icons at the top of the People page. It shows who is currently online. Access users' details by clicking on their icon.
- Online Users: A green dot is on the user's circular icon
- Offline Users: There is no green dot on the user's circular icon
- Summary Graph: There is a heading called Who's at home below the users carousel. Here, there is a chart that shows when user's presence devices were online today, yesterday and in the past seven days.
Edit or Delete a user
Fing Mobile
To edit a user:
- Click the user's circular icon in the People page
- Click Edit
- Once you have made your selected edits, click Save in the top right corner
To delete a user:
- Click the user's circular icon in the People page
- Click Edit
- Click Delete in the top right corner
Fing Desktop
To edit a user:
- Click the user's circular icon in the People page
- Click Edit
- Once you have made your selected edits, click Continue
- One you have made your device edits, click Save
To delete a user:
- Click the user's circular icon in the People page
- Click Delete
Set up Digital Presence alerts
You can receive notifications when a user's device goes online or offline. For example, you may wish to know when your child has returned home. Click here to lean about setting up alerts.
Digital Presence log (Timeline)
The Digital Presence log (Timeline) provides you with a timeline of users' activity on your network. To access this:
Fing Mobile App
- Click the user's circular icon in the People page
- Click the blue Timeline icon. This will open the user's Timeline page.
Fing Desktop
- Click the user's circular icon in the People page
- This will bring you to the user's page. Here, the timeline of the user's activity will appear under the heading Timeline.
There are a number of icons in the user's timeline with specific meanings:
- A white circular icon means the user went offline
- A green circular icon means the user went online
- A green icon with an eye means the user’s Presence Device was not connected to the network, but it still had Wi-Fi enabled and was within 15 meters of the Fingbox. This feature is called DigitalFence.
Click here for more information on DigitalFence.
How to use the Digital Presence feature: Video
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