Meraki MX security appliances support captive portal authentication on VLANs using custom RADIUS servers. Integrating Spotipo with your Meraki MX enables email capture, social login, and paid WiFi access on wired VLAN networks without requiring additional hardware or firmware changes.
This guide walks you through creating a Meraki site in Spotipo, configuring VLAN access control with custom RADIUS authentication, and setting up walled garden access for seamless guest authentication on your Meraki MX.
What you'll accomplish:
Create a Meraki site in Spotipo and generate RADIUS credentials
Configure VLAN access control with custom-hosted splash page
Set up RADIUS authentication and accounting servers on Meraki MX
Configure walled garden for Spotipo and optional payment/social login domains
What you'll need:
Meraki MX security appliance with active license
Admin access to Meraki dashboard
Active Spotipo account (start free trial)
VLAN configured for guest access
You can use Spotipo as a custom Radius server on your Meraki network. This allows you to use your existing Meraki network to deploy a hotspot without the need to make any firmware changes.
In this scenario, a VLAN on the MX will be configured with captive portal.
Add a Meraki Site
If you need to, 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.
Go to the Meraki dashboard, select your network, then navigate to Security &SD-WAN -> Configure -> Access control.
In the VLAN drop-down menu, choose the VLAN you want to configure.
Under the splash page section, choose the splash page method as "Sign-On with " and select the "my Radius server" option.
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
Configure Walled Garden
Under advanced splash settings, you can 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 domains below 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 Splash page
Go to Security &SD-WAN -> Configure -> Splash page and choose the VLAN on which you want to deploy the hotspot.
Select the Custom Splash page URL and copy-paste the Splash URL from the spotipo dashboard.
Under Splash Behavior, for the Where should users go after the splash page, select the option "The URL they were trying to fetch."
If everything is configured correctly, you can see the Spotipo landing page when connecting to the Guest WiFi network.
Meraki MX Captive Portal Active
After configuring VLAN access control, RADIUS servers, walled garden settings, and custom splash page URL, clients connecting to your configured VLAN will be redirected to Spotipo's landing page for authentication.
What to do next:
Test the captive portal by connecting a device to your configured VLAN
Customize your splash page design in Spotipo dashboard
Set up email marketing integrations to sync guest contacts
VLAN-specific configuration: This setup applies to wired VLAN guest access on Meraki MX appliances. For wireless guest WiFi on Meraki access points, follow the Meraki AP configuration guide instead.
Still having trouble configuring Meraki MX with Spotipo? Contact Spotipo support via live chat or email us at [email protected].