the family router
Demo household, made-up data. Controls here do not change anything. This is the real Genkan dashboard running against a fake family, so nobody's network is behind it. About Genkan

Who is in the house

2 guests here right now. A control aimed at the kids reaches every child under this roof and every visiting child. It never reaches a visiting grown-up.

Child
Nova Child young 1 device
Piper Child standard 2 devices
Rangi Child young 2 devices
Guest child
Ari Guest child guest 1 device
Guest adult
Dorothy Guest adult guest 1 device
Adult
Callum Adult adult 2 devices
Marama Adult adult 1 device
Turn a whole group off
All kids
All guests
Guest kids
Everyone but the adults

All kids: Everyone under our roof and every visiting child. All guests: Every visitor, child and grown-up. Guest kids: Visiting children only. Everyone but the adults: The kids, the visiting kids, and any device nobody has claimed yet.

Everything off
14 devices would go off. Never the smart home, the appliances or the access point, and never the help lines.

It lifts itself when the time is up, so nothing stays cut off if nobody is home to undo it. Untick a device on the Devices page to leave it out.

Who is on the network

Add a child or a guest, change what they can reach, and set how long each kind of thing lasts them in a day. Changes reach the filter straight away.

1 device has no owner. Until a device is assigned, nothing it does can be counted towards anybody, which is why a child's numbers can read zero while their tablet is clearly busy. They are in the list below marked “Nobody yet”.

Marama

1 device · 0 min used today
Daily limit per kind of thing, in minutes

Leave a box empty for no limit. Music, schoolwork and messaging are never counted, so they never run out. When a limit is reached that one thing is blocked for the rest of the day; the rest of the internet keeps working.

Callum

2 devices · 0 min used today
Daily limit per kind of thing, in minutes

Leave a box empty for no limit. Music, schoolwork and messaging are never counted, so they never run out. When a limit is reached that one thing is blocked for the rest of the day; the rest of the internet keeps working.

Nova

1 device · 57 min used today
Daily limit per kind of thing, in minutes

Leave a box empty for no limit. Music, schoolwork and messaging are never counted, so they never run out. When a limit is reached that one thing is blocked for the rest of the day; the rest of the internet keeps working.

Rangi

2 devices · 115 min used today
Daily limit per kind of thing, in minutes

Leave a box empty for no limit. Music, schoolwork and messaging are never counted, so they never run out. When a limit is reached that one thing is blocked for the rest of the day; the rest of the internet keeps working.

Piper

2 devices · 162 min used today
Daily limit per kind of thing, in minutes

Leave a box empty for no limit. Music, schoolwork and messaging are never counted, so they never run out. When a limit is reached that one thing is blocked for the rest of the day; the rest of the internet keeps working.

Dorothy

1 device · 0 min used today
Daily limit per kind of thing, in minutes

Leave a box empty for no limit. Music, schoolwork and messaging are never counted, so they never run out. When a limit is reached that one thing is blocked for the rest of the day; the rest of the internet keeps working.

Ari

1 device · 0 min used today
Daily limit per kind of thing, in minutes

Leave a box empty for no limit. Music, schoolwork and messaging are never counted, so they never run out. When a limit is reached that one thing is blocked for the rest of the day; the rest of the internet keeps working.

Add someone

A new person needs a matching client in AdGuard for their filter level to apply. Genkan will tell you straight after saving whether it found one.

Bedtimes

The internet goes off and comes back on its own. A school night and a Friday night are set separately, and each child has their own times. The morning is the half that matters: nothing has to be remembered for a child to wake up online.

A bedtime never overrules you. If you turn somebody back on during theirs, it stays on until the next night. A block you applied by hand is never lifted by the morning, and earning time does not buy a way past a bedtime.

Nova

No bedtime set, so nothing switches off on its own.

Sunday to Thursday

Friday and Saturday

The whole internet, except the help lines and the reading list, which always stay reachable.

Rangi

Tonight: Off at 08:00 pm, back at 07:00 am

Sunday to Thursday

Friday and Saturday

The whole internet, except the help lines and the reading list, which always stay reachable.

Piper

Tonight: Off at 09:30 pm, back at 07:00 am

Sunday to Thursday

Friday and Saturday

The whole internet, except the help lines and the reading list, which always stay reachable.

Ari

No bedtime set, so nothing switches off on its own.

Sunday to Thursday

Friday and Saturday

The whole internet, except the help lines and the reading list, which always stay reachable.

Holidays and late nights

School holidays should not mean editing every bedtime and then editing them all back. Give the dates instead. Everything returns to normal on its own afterwards.

term break 2026-09-27 to 2026-10-11 · no bedtimes · everybody

These are in force now.

"Bedtimes start later" moves the evening only. The morning stays where it is, because a child locked out later than you meant is the failure worth avoiding.

What each filter level means

These settings apply to everyone on that level, not to one person. The daily minutes are the general screen-time allowance a school day or a weekend day starts with. Leave them empty for no limit.

Young

2 on this level

Age ~11: tight. Block adult/gambling/drugs/self-harm/dating/violence; SafeSearch + YouTube restricted forced; strict bedtime; time budget.

Standard

1 on this level

Age ~14: block genuinely harmful categories, keep social but monitored; SafeSearch on; later bedtime.

Teen

0 on this level

Age ~16: light touch + transparency. Block the seriously harmful only; focus on time + safety alerts, not heavy filtering.

Guest

2 on this level

Visitors: malware and adult content only, no time limit, no logging of individuals.

Adult

2 on this level

Household adult: no filtering beyond the household blocklists, no SafeSearch, no time limit. Never caught by a kids' control.

Devices

Rename anything, hand it to someone else, or take it out of one child's hands entirely. A shared family device is the lounge TV or the iPad everybody uses: nobody's minutes pay for it, it has a filter level of its own, and you choose on the Devices page whether it goes off at dinner and in a whole-house cut. Smart home kit, appliances and network equipment are never assigned to a child, never metered, and never cut by any control at all.

A person's device (11)

Phones, tablets, laptops, consoles. Filtered and metered by whoever owns it.

Unknown tablet

not seen lately

tablet · Lenovo · 192.168.60.88 · 02:00:00:11:09:01

Ari's phone

not seen lately

phone · Xiaomi · 192.168.60.61 · 02:00:00:11:06:01

Callum's laptop

not seen lately

laptop · Dell · 192.168.60.13 · 02:00:00:11:05:02

Callum's phone

not seen lately

phone · Google · 192.168.60.12 · 02:00:00:11:05:01

Dorothy's iPad

not seen lately

tablet · Apple · 192.168.60.62 · 02:00:00:11:07:01

Marama's phone

not seen lately

phone · Apple · 192.168.60.11 · 02:00:00:11:04:01

Nova's tablet

not seen lately

tablet · Apple · 192.168.60.41 · 02:00:00:11:03:01

Piper's laptop

not seen lately

laptop · Lenovo · 192.168.60.22 · 02:00:00:11:01:02

Piper's phone

not seen lately

phone · Samsung · 192.168.60.21 · 02:00:00:11:01:01

Rangi's Switch

not seen lately

console · Nintendo · 192.168.60.31 · 02:00:00:11:02:01

Rangi's tablet

not seen lately

tablet · Amazon · 192.168.60.32 · 02:00:00:11:02:02

Shared family device (3)

The lounge TV, the iPad everybody uses. Filtered at a level you pick, and nobody's minutes pay for it. Goes off at dinner and in a whole-house cut unless you untick it.

Family iPad

not seen lately

tablet · Apple · 192.168.60.71 · 02:00:00:55:01:02

Kitchen display

not seen lately

tablet · Google · 192.168.60.72 · 02:00:00:55:01:03

Lounge TV

not seen lately

tv · LG · 192.168.60.70 · 02:00:00:55:01:01

Smart home (3)

Cameras, speakers, lights, locks, the vacuum. Never assigned to a person, never metered, and never cut by a family pause.

Front door camera

not seen lately

camera · Reolink · 192.168.60.102 · 02:00:00:22:01:02

Lounge speaker

not seen lately

speaker · Sonos · 192.168.60.101 · 02:00:00:22:01:01

Robot vacuum

not seen lately

vacuum · Roborock · 192.168.60.103 · 02:00:00:22:01:03

Unrestricted device (1)

An SMS gateway, a server, a media box. Full internet, no time limits, never caught by a kids control, but still protected and visible.

Media server

not seen lately

other · Intel · 192.168.60.150 · 02:00:00:33:01:01

Network equipment (1)

The access point, a switch, the gateway itself. Not somebody's device at all.

Living room AP

not seen lately

ap · Ubiquiti · 192.168.60.2 · 02:00:00:44:01:01