What you'll need
- Admin access to the Plasma Cloud Console
- A MyWiFi location already created, so you have a splash page URL, a RADIUS shared secret, and a UAM secret to enter
- If you want Plasma Cloud to auto-provision SSIDs for you at scale with zero manual per-network setup, that requires becoming a Plasma Cloud Marketplace partner — a formal partnership agreement with Plasma Cloud, not something you can self-serve. Most installers should use the direct setup below instead.
Steps
- In the Plasma Cloud Console, go to Settings > SSIDs, select your SSID, and open the Captive Portal section.
- Enter your MyWiFi splash page URL in the external splash page URL field.
- Set a UAM secret that exactly matches the one configured on your MyWiFi portal for this location.
- Point the SSID at a RADIUS server (MyWiFi's) on port 1812/1813 with the matching shared secret — Plasma Cloud forwards guest credentials there to grant access.
- Make sure your MyWiFi portal domain is added to the SSID's walled garden — the login endpoint runs on plain HTTP on the AP's local network, so the walled garden must explicitly allow guests to reach your portal before they've logged in.
- In the MyWiFi dashboard, go to Devices and click Add Device.
- Select the Location, name the device, and under Select Your Hardware choose Plasma Cloud.
- Enter your Plasma Cloud connection details as prompted and save.
Best practice: double-check that the UAM secret matches character-for-character between Plasma Cloud and MyWiFi. A mismatched secret is the single most common cause of "guests reach the login page but can never actually get online" — the two sides silently fail to agree with no error message shown.
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