Fingbox & Fing Desktop integration



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Hi @GuyR
thanks for the suggestion. I will pass on this to our Dev team for review. Fing desktop is a new product but we are still reviewing the features to be added to enhance its functionality. For all other users who feel this would be beneficial, please click the 'Upvote' button. Thank you.
Robin (Admin at Fing)
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This dovetails with my idea that there should be full feature-parity across all Fing software products (i.e. #FingDesktop & #FingApp) If a user is on their desktop, there is no reason they should have to use another device to see information from their #Fingbox.21
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A YES vote for me . I only have 1 home network with less than 20 devices with 4 wifi connected devices the rest are connected to via wired Ethernet cable. I have Fing premium desktop app and version 2 Fingbox.
Hope the INTEGRATION will be up soon so as to simply things. The customization of devices even does not work on each scanned network I have to customize on each which is redundancy. Then you'll get 2 separate alerts on same device because of multiple network that Fing scanned on One network.
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I have a Fingbox v2 and have one home network but in the app it shows the Fingbox that covers the list of wifi and ethernet connected devices and another scanned secured account and shows wifi network but it also list my wired connection devices then the worst confusion that is adding up is I paid for the premium desktop and now my phone app is showing 3 networks and I have to do customization for the 2 networks coz they don't sync and integrate.
I hope that Fing will be able to fix this SOON!
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Hey @Robin, this seems to be the most voted on feature request on the threads. Any update from Fing as to whether this will be considered for development? And don’t think I didn’t notice that you also voted for it.. 😉Thats Daphnee, she's a good dog...3
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Marc said:Hey @Robin, this seems to be the most voted on feature request on the threads. Any update from Fing as to whether this will be considered for development? And don’t think I didn’t notice that you also voted for it.. 😉Robin (Admin at Fing)
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I ran the desktop app on my PC then installed on my Mac. Didn't realize this would create duplicate networks. Then I connected the iOS app and got a third network. I paid for the year subscription for the desktop app, but am thinking twice about it now. I was thinking of getting a Fingbox, too, but no way. I understand the tools do different things, but there must be a way to have them use a common database on the backend, even if they can only touch certain fields of the database.1
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RyTheITGuy said:I ran the desktop app on my PC then installed on my Mac. Didn't realize this would create duplicate networks. Then I connected the iOS app and got a third network. I paid for the year subscription for the desktop app, but am thinking twice about it now. I was thinking of getting a Fingbox, too, but no way. I understand the tools do different things, but there must be a way to have them use a common database on the backend, even if they can only touch certain fields of the database.
To address your query, I would like to tell you that if you have Fingbox and then you install Fing desktop then, first of all, you will see multiple networks under your account. Only those networks will merge from Fing mobile app and Fing desktop which are without Fingbox.
Also, if you are in the mobile app and then you open Fing Desktop network then names, customization will merge but not with the Fingbox network. And if you have iOS 11+ without mac address and if you run a scan from there, you will see another network w/o any mac address. If you open the network pushed by Fing desktop, you will see it but will not be able to refresh from mobile.
Robin (Admin at Fing)
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I likely would buy the fing box if all this was integrated. It has baffled me since the beginning of this application why the different networks are separate and do not have an option for integration.
Especially since you started allowing an account for backup of information etc. it was a no-brainer to automatically combine Wi-Fi networks etc. into one account as an option. Why this hasn't been done yet escapes me. This is one reason I have not bought one of the boxes yet.
The priorities for what is being developed right now doesn't seem to be aligned with what the users want.
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for real, what the hell, the early king adopter got screwed over with this update now that all the old function are gone from the app which used to be FREE!0
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@Felixishim, what function was removed from the fingapp and Fingbox since the early days? Keep in mind the Fing Desktop is a separate product from the mobile app. When Fing came out, there was no desktop app in production. In actuality, its gained quite a number if new features over the years.Thats Daphnee, she's a good dog...0
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Ade said:Hello, just subscribed to Fing last night and I'm getting the above fault code N40F-N801 on my laptop, though can send emails and use internet. Ade
https://community.fing.com/discussion/4563/fing-claims-not-connected-to-internet-gateway-is-not-healthy-yet-here-i-am
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Robin said:
To address your query, I would like to tell you that if you have Fingbox and then you install Fing desktop then, first of all, you will see multiple networks under your account. Only those networks will merge from Fing mobile app and Fing desktop which are without Fingbox.
Also, if you are in the mobile app and then you open Fing Desktop network then names, customization will merge but not with the Fingbox network. And if you have iOS 11+ without mac address and if you run a scan from there, you will see another network w/o any mac address. If you open the network pushed by Fing desktop, you will see it but will not be able to refresh from mobile.
Is it saying that the Fingbox network simply isn't visible in the Desktop app - yet?
If so, that's a bummer - feels like support for the paid hardware should have been part of the basic 2.0 launch - especially if it's in the web app...0 -
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Hey, has anyone else noticed that the Fing Desktop app will periodically lose your network and "discover" a new one? All of your customizations to the devices are also lost as a result of this. Is there any way to get the original network back? I haven't been able to see a list of networks in the desktop app at all on my Mac. Today when I did the update to the latest version (2.2.1), I lost my network again and it "discovered" it as a new network. Lost all of my device customizations as well. That's just a little frustrating. How do we avoid that from happening?
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I have a couple of Fingboxes on the way (from Amazon) and thought I'd get started with Fingbox for Windows. Now that I read this thread, I am kind of disappointed already before I have my Fingboxes in hand.It was kind of obvious that it doesn't make a lot of sense to have separate Networks/Databases for Fingbox, Fing Desktop and Fing App, but apparently the developers didn't think that would make sense (or had subscription dollars in mind, I just don't know). Now, of course, I will stop using Fing Deskop and depending on the performance of the the Fingboxes (if features which are available in Fing Desktop or for subscription dollars only) I might even return them.It just puzzles my mind why one would create separate networks/databases for the app, desktop and the fingox.I am not completely new to Fing, I followed your developments for years but until now just never had the need for the boxes. And now that I do and ordered them, you start separating products3
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