YFiExplainGoogleMaps

Instructions

• Beta-4 of YFi Hotspot Manager now features a very intuitive Google Maps interface.
• Mark the locations of selected NAS Devices on Google Maps.

Open the Google Maps tab

• The Google Maps tab is located under the Realms & Providers menu on the left.
• You will need Internet access for Google Maps to work properly since the map detail is loaded from Google's servers.
• You will also need to register a key for the server which will serve the YFi Pages.
• Simply follow the instruction on the following page:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html

• Once you have a key, change the original one in /var/www/yfi/js/dojo/content/Maps.js

  //______________ Please Change to suit your setup __________________
  var mapKey          = 'ABQIAAAAdxRtsH68Irgqk-ndlTYD4xRi_j0U6kJrkFvY4-OX2XYmEAa76BSiOIBBr9TXI7oYTHfD5Ji1RUBC0Q'; //Only works on 127.0.0.1
  //__________________________________________________________________
  

Set your location

• The easiest to do this is by dragging the map until the required location is on the center of the screen.
• Zoom in to the level you require.
• Click on the Preferences icon on the icon on top right to open the preferences dialog.
• The Snapshot button will take a snapshot of the current location's longitude and latitude values and replace those specified in the dialog box.
• Simply click the Save button to save these preferences.
• You may wish to change the map type as well. map types include Hyrbid, Normal and Satellite_. _

Add Markers

• Click on the Add icon on top right to open a dialog listing available NAS devices.

• Select the device you want to add on the map and click Save.
• A White pointer will be placed on the center of the map screen with an accompanying message.
• Follow the message by dragging the pointer to the required location.

• When this action is complete, the map will reload to show the location and status of the NAS device represented by a color marker.

Moving and Deleting markers

• Drag the marker to its new location.
• When the marker is dropped, a message will pop up requesting an action.
• Click Save to fix the marker to the new location.
• Click Delete to remove the marker. (It will now again be available in the list of markers to add)
• Click Cancel to restore the marker to its original position.

Detail on the marker

• When you click on the marker a pop-up will show detail about the NAS device.
• This detail include a list of active users on the device.
• It also includes a Photo. The Photo can be any thing and any size (within limits)
• The device's detail and photo is supplied in the NAS device's definition. (Realms & Providers -> NAS Devices)
• Active user count is taken from the radacct table in FreeRADIUS.