the family router
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RangeLast 7 daysLast 30 days
35h 14m
on metered habits across the house over the last 7 days: 13h 21m gaming, 16h 2m video. 11h 56m was earned back through quizzes and chores.

Nova 7 · young

Over a budget on 2 of 7 days
Online, last 7 days 6h 27m 55 min a day on average
Metered habits 6h 13m gaming 2h 5m · video 4h 8m
Earned by learning 4h 26m 86 min quizzes · 4 chores approved
Schoolwork lookups 41 28 blocked requests

Where the time went

Minutes per day. Gaming, video and social are counted by the meter; everything else online is the rest of the daily ledger.

1h 30m1h30 min041Thu49Fri1h26Sat1h25Sun46Mon54Tue44Wed

Music, schoolwork and messaging are never metered, so they only ever show up in ‘other online’.

Show the numbers
DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal online
Thu 5 Nov172200241
Fri 6 Nov1028001149
Sat 7 Nov266000079
Sun 8 Nov2548001285
Mon 9 Nov182800035
Tue 10 Nov133400754
Wed 11 Nov162800044

Losing time, gaining time

Above the line: minutes earned through quizzes and approved chores. Below: minutes the meter counted against the habit budgets. Parent bonuses are excluded, because a gift is not something they earned. The two sides are not meant to match: earning is capped by design.

45 min45 min1h 30m1h 30m01h2239Thu1h1538Fri221h26Sat1h13Sun1h1546Mon1247Tue44Wed

metered time down 26 min, earning down 1h 32m (the last 3 days against the 3 before).

Show the numbers
DayQuizzesChoresEarnedMeteredBalance
Thu 5 Nov22608239+43
Fri 6 Nov15607538+37
Sat 7 Nov2202286-64
Sun 8 Nov00073-73
Mon 9 Nov15607546+29
Tue 10 Nov1201247-35
Wed 11 Nov00044-44

Which services

DNS lookups per service over the last 7 days. A lookup means the device asked for that service by name. It is a proxy for activity, not data volume and not minutes: HTTPS hides everything else.

📺 YouTube60 lookups🧱 Roblox55 lookups🎧 Spotify30 lookups🎬 Netflix24 lookups📸 Instagram24 lookups👻 Snapchat18 lookups🔫 Fortnite8 lookups📚 Khan Academy8 lookups💬 Discord8 lookups🎓 Google Classroom8 lookups

Bars are coloured when the service falls in a metered category (gaming, video, social). Grey means we never count it against a budget: music, schoolwork, messaging.

Show the numbers
ServiceCategoryLookupsBytesMetered minutes
YouTubevideo603.1 GB130
Robloxgaming55429 MB57
Spotifyaudio30396 MB346
Netflixvideo242.1 GB54
Instagramsocial2400
Snapchatsocial1800
Fortnitegaming8300 MB23
Khan Academyschoolwork870 MB49
Discordsocial800
Google Classroomschoolwork800

Bytes and metered minutes come from the firewall counters on the addresses those services resolved to, so they are measured, not estimated. Lookups and bytes answer different questions: do not add them together.

What Nova looked up most
DomainLookups
roblox.com32
googlevideo.com29
rbxcdn.com23
gstatic.com23
spotify.com20
netflix.com18
snapchat.com18
googleapis.com18
youtube.com17
instagram.com15
docs.google.com14
ytimg.com14

Rangi 11 · young

Over a budget on 3 of 7 days
Online, last 7 days 13h 35m 1h 56m a day on average
Metered habits 13h 34m gaming 6h 19m · video 6h 14m
Earned by learning 3h 35m 95 min quizzes · 2 chores approved
Schoolwork lookups 73 200 blocked requests

Where the time went

Minutes per day. Gaming, video and social are counted by the meter; everything else online is the rest of the daily ledger.

3h2h1h01h35Thu1h40Fri2h54Sat2h53Sun1h34Mon1h35Tue1h56Wed

Music, schoolwork and messaging are never metered, so they only ever show up in ‘other online’.

Show the numbers
DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal online
Thu 5 Nov473960395
Fri 6 Nov5238100088
Sat 7 Nov737911011174
Sun 8 Nov648412013173
Mon 9 Nov444460086
Tue 10 Nov454190083
Wed 11 Nov5449706116

Losing time, gaining time

Above the line: minutes earned through quizzes and approved chores. Below: minutes the meter counted against the habit budgets. Parent bonuses are excluded, because a gift is not something they earned. The two sides are not meant to match: earning is capped by design.

1h 30m1h 30m3h3h0301h32Thu1h40Fri202h43Sat1h102h40Sun251h34Mon1h1h35Tue101h50Wed

metered time down 56 min, earning up 45 min (the last 3 days against the 3 before).

Show the numbers
DayQuizzesChoresEarnedMeteredBalance
Thu 5 Nov3003092-62
Fri 6 Nov000100-100
Sat 7 Nov20020163-143
Sun 8 Nov106070160-90
Mon 9 Nov2502594-69
Tue 10 Nov0606095-35
Wed 11 Nov10010110-100

Which services

DNS lookups per service over the last 7 days. A lookup means the device asked for that service by name. It is a proxy for activity, not data volume and not minutes: HTTPS hides everything else.

📺 YouTube203 lookups🧱 Roblox143 lookups📸 Instagram69 lookups🎧 Spotify59 lookups🎬 Netflix40 lookups🎓 Google Classroom32 lookups📚 Khan Academy29 lookups👻 Snapchat28 lookups🔫 Fortnite20 lookups🎮 Twitch15 lookups

Bars are coloured when the service falls in a metered category (gaming, video, social). Grey means we never count it against a budget: music, schoolwork, messaging.

Show the numbers
ServiceCategoryLookupsBytesMetered minutes
YouTubevideo2034.7 GB194
Robloxgaming1431.3 GB170
Instagramsocial69199 MB23
Spotifyaudio59425 MB371
Netflixvideo403.2 GB82
Google Classroomschoolwork3200
Khan Academyschoolwork2984 MB59
Snapchatsocial28161 MB29
Fortnitegaming20911 MB68
Twitchvideo15326 MB10

Bytes and metered minutes come from the firewall counters on the addresses those services resolved to, so they are measured, not estimated. Lookups and bytes answer different questions: do not add them together.

What Rangi looked up most
DomainLookups
googlevideo.com80
youtube.com63
roblox.com60
rbxcdn.com56
gstatic.com42
instagram.com38
spotify.com30
classroom.google.com28
cdninstagram.com26
googleapis.com26
khanacademy.org25
ytimg.com24

Piper 14 · standard

Over a budget on 2 of 7 days
Online, last 7 days 20h 51m 2h 59m a day on average
Metered habits 15h 27m gaming 4h 57m · video 5h 40m
Earned by learning 3h 55m 160 min quizzes · 1 chore approved
Schoolwork lookups 74 56 blocked requests

Where the time went

Minutes per day. Gaming, video and social are counted by the meter; everything else online is the rest of the daily ledger.

6h4h2h02h46Thu2h41Fri4h01Sat3h58Sun2h34Mon2h33Tue2h18Wed

Music, schoolwork and messaging are never metered, so they only ever show up in ‘other online’.

Show the numbers
DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal online
Thu 5 Nov334535053166
Fri 6 Nov463932044161
Sat 7 Nov747458035241
Sun 8 Nov537461050238
Mon 9 Nov373534048154
Tue 10 Nov223942050153
Wed 11 Nov323428044138

Losing time, gaining time

Above the line: minutes earned through quizzes and approved chores. Below: minutes the meter counted against the habit budgets. Parent bonuses are excluded, because a gift is not something they earned. The two sides are not meant to match: earning is capped by design.

2h2h4h4h0271h53Thu371h57Fri123h26Sat423h08Sun151h46Mon1h301h43Tue121h34Wed

metered time down 2h 13m, earning up 41 min (the last 3 days against the 3 before).

Show the numbers
DayQuizzesChoresEarnedMeteredBalance
Thu 5 Nov27027113-86
Fri 6 Nov37037117-80
Sat 7 Nov12012206-194
Sun 8 Nov42042188-146
Mon 9 Nov15015106-91
Tue 10 Nov157590103-13
Wed 11 Nov1201294-82

Which services

DNS lookups per service over the last 7 days. A lookup means the device asked for that service by name. It is a proxy for activity, not data volume and not minutes: HTTPS hides everything else.

📺 YouTube180 lookups🧱 Roblox96 lookups📸 Instagram50 lookups🎧 Spotify48 lookups🎬 Netflix42 lookups👻 Snapchat30 lookups📚 Khan Academy20 lookups🎓 Google Classroom19 lookups⛏️ Minecraft18 lookups💬 Discord18 lookups

Bars are coloured when the service falls in a metered category (gaming, video, social). Grey means we never count it against a budget: music, schoolwork, messaging.

Show the numbers
ServiceCategoryLookupsBytesMetered minutes
YouTubevideo1804.3 GB175
Robloxgaming961020 MB134
Instagramsocial50946 MB110
Spotifyaudio48415 MB363
Netflixvideo422.9 GB75
Snapchatsocial30763 MB134
Khan Academyschoolwork20515 MB360
Google Classroomschoolwork1900
Minecraftgaming18212 MB75
Discordsocial1800

Bytes and metered minutes come from the firewall counters on the addresses those services resolved to, so they are measured, not estimated. Lookups and bytes answer different questions: do not add them together.

What Piper looked up most
DomainLookups
youtube.com90
googlevideo.com59
rbxcdn.com49
roblox.com47
gstatic.com40
googleapis.com38
ytimg.com31
snapchat.com30
instagram.com29
docs.google.com28
spotify.com27
netflix.com25

How these numbers are measured

Lookups are not bytes and not minutes.
The gateway is the DNS server, so it sees which names a device asked for. HTTPS hides everything after that. A lookup count is a proxy for activity, nothing more.
Minutes come from the meter, not from DNS.
A minute is counted when a device moves more than a small amount of traffic to a category's addresses in that minute, so a backgrounded app does not quietly rack up time. It is about right, not perfect.
Bytes, where shown, are measured.
Byte figures come from nftables counters on the addresses a service resolved to. They are never derived from lookups.
Shorts and full YouTube cannot be told apart.
They share domains, so both count as video. YouTube Music counts as video too.
A VPN makes all of this blind.
It hides destination addresses, so categorisation and metering both fail. That is a conversation, not a chart.
9% of DNS lookups are not attributed to anyone.
Those came from a device that is not yet assigned to a person. Name it on the Devices tab and it starts counting.

Days follow the gateway's clock. Genkan logs domains, never content: it is a family conversation aid, not a surveillance console.