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
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0 min
of metered time across the house, Mon 20 Apr to Sun 26 Apr. Nothing earned back yet this week. Nothing flagged.

This is a conversation starter, not a report card. Two or three things over dinner beats a printout.

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Nothing was recorded this week yet. That is normal on a fresh gateway: minutes appear once devices are named on the Devices tab and the metering timer has run for a day. The page fills itself in.

Nova 7 · young

Everything about Nova

Nothing recorded for Nova this week. If that looks wrong, check their devices are named on the Devices tab.

Time online0 min 0 of 7 days
Metered habits0 min nothing metered
Earned0 min 0 quizzes · 0 chores
Filter declined0 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Earned by learningat least 1h a week 0 min
1h to go full week
New goal hours of
Earned
No quizzes or chores this week. The portal is always open, and a quiz is five minutes of work for ten minutes of time.
Worth a chat
Nothing flagged for Nova this week.

Rangi 11 · young

Everything about Rangi

Nothing recorded for Rangi this week. If that looks wrong, check their devices are named on the Devices tab.

Time online0 min 0 of 7 days
Metered habits0 min nothing metered
Earned0 min 0 quizzes · 0 chores
Filter declined0 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Videono more than 6h a week 0 min
6h left full week
New goal hours of
Earned
No quizzes or chores this week. The portal is always open, and a quiz is five minutes of work for ten minutes of time.
Worth a chat
Nothing flagged for Rangi this week.

Piper 14 · standard

Everything about Piper

Nothing recorded for Piper this week. If that looks wrong, check their devices are named on the Devices tab.

Time online0 min 0 of 7 days
Metered habits0 min nothing metered
Earned0 min 0 quizzes · 0 chores
Filter declined0 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Gamingno more than 5h a week 0 min
5h left full week
Quiz minutesat least 2h a week 0 min
2h to go full week
New goal hours of
Earned
No quizzes or chores this week. The portal is always open, and a quiz is five minutes of work for ten minutes of time.
Worth a chat
Nothing flagged for Piper this week.

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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.
No metered minutes recorded yet.
The per-category meter fills in once the island is cabled and the metering timer has run. Until then the daily ledger is the only minutes figure.

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