Pirania data usage metering

[tbdinesh]

We are excited that a new release of Pirania is around the corner and looking forward to it to test it in our community (COWmesh).

Ours is a diverse community of 2000 where we wish to bring local knowledge and community resource maps available to the community via captive portal. We have used Pirania for a while but now we have reverted to passwords at some nodes and some nodes being open to all. Our wish is to incentivise local learning using vouchers for internet - based on some subjective criteria we work out with the community.

0. What we are looking forward is for a community woman member (with a RaspberryPi or using phone) but who is not tech savvy (not command line or editing csv files) to help with voucher generation. Say a validity of a few hours or a few days per voucher.

There has been a high use of gaming on the the phones (mostly by boys in the area and in general https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pubg+india+boys) which requires us to be discreet on generating vouchers. While we want to encourage online learning (video conference and youtube lessons are examples) we notice that some boys are addicted to these games and sit around the nodes for hours at a time. The elders in the community are not happy to see this.

1. We wish for the women (and us) to get an insight to the amount of data used per voucher which can be a point for negotiating for the next voucher.

2. Also it would be great to be able to generate vouchers that are valid only for certain hours of the day (say 8pm to 11pm only)