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How to enable Spotipo cloud Hotspot on Meraki Access Points
How to enable Spotipo cloud Hotspot on Meraki Access Points

Learn how to configure Meraki access points to use Spotipo as the external portal server

Rakesh Mukundan avatar
Written by Rakesh Mukundan
Updated over a week ago

You can use Spotipo as a custom Radius server on your Meraki network. This allows using your existing Meraki network to deploy a hotspot without the need to have any firmware changes.

Add a Meraki Site

If you still need to do so, please create a Site with Meraki as the WiFi router. Please see

this article on how to create a site.

After creating the site, navigate to Settings -> Meraki Aps. Here you can see the Radius details and the splash page URL for configuring your Meraki network.

Enable a Custom-Hosted Splash page on the Meraki Cloud.

Now Go to the Meraki dashboard and select your network; then navigate to Wireless-> Access control.
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Choos

In the SSID drop-down menu, choose the SSID you want to configure.

Configure my Radius server as splashpage option


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Under the splash page section, choose the splash page method as "Sign-On with " and select the "my Radius server" option.

Configure Walled Garden

Under advanced splash settings, enable Walled garden and add the below entry

app.spotipo.com 

If you are using a white-labeled domain, add that as well.

Optionally add the below domains if you want to deploy payment gated hotspot with Stripe.

js.stripe.com
api.stripe.com
q.stripe.com

Or if you want to use Login with Facebook

facebook.com
akamaihd.netakamai.net
edgecastcdn.net
facebook.net
akamaihd.net
fbcdn.net
atdmt.com
fbsbx.com

Configure Radius Server Details

Click the Add server button under RADIUS servers and

  • use the Primary Radius Server Ip from the Spotipo dashboard as the HostIP

  • Use 1812 as the port

  • Use the secret from the Spotipo dashboard as the Secret

Do the steps again for adding a secondary radius server

Configure RADIUS accounting servers

If you don't have this option in your dashboard, don't hesitate to contact Meraki support to enable it.

  • use the Primary Radius Server Ip from the Spotipo dashboard as the HostIP

  • Use 1813 as the port

  • Use the secret from the Spotipo dashboard as the Secret

Disable Radius Testing

Make sure to disable Radius Testing option in the dashboard, or else you would receive warnings about Radius servers not being reachable by Meraki servers.

Configure Splash page

Go to Wireless -> Splash page and choose the SSID you want to deploy the hotspot on.

Select the Custom splash page URL and copy-paste the Splash URL from spotipo dashboard.

Under Splash Behavior, for the Where should users go after the splash page, select the option as "The URL they were trying to fetch"


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If everything is configured correctly, you should be able to see the Spotipo landing page when connecting to the Guest WiFi network.

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