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‹ Earlier This week Week of Mon 3 Aug Later ›
41h 27m
of metered time across the house, Mon 3 Aug to Sun 9 Aug. 9h 26m earned back through 17 quizzes and 6 approved chores. 3 things worth a quiet word.

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

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The week, side by side

Minutes each child spent online this week. Gaming, video and social are the meter's figures; the rest is everything else the daily ledger counted.

24h18h12h6h0Nova: 6h 40mRangi: 14h 4mPiper: 21h 31m6h40Nova14h41Rangi21h31Piper
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ChildGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal online
Nova1342470019400
Rangi4064255000844
Piper5783542930661291

Nova 7 · young

Everything about Nova

Nova was online 6h 40m across 7 days, busiest on Sun 9 Aug (1h 38m).

Time online6h 40m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits6h 21m gaming 2h 14m · video 4h 7m
Earned2h 6m 6 quizzes · 1 chore
Filter declined9 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Earned by learningat least 1h a week 2h 6m
Reached it full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

2h1h 30m1h30 min0Mon 3 Aug: 39 minTue 4 Aug: 44 minWed 5 Aug: 53 minThu 6 Aug: 40 minFri 7 Aug: 34 minSat 8 Aug: 1h 32mSun 9 Aug: 1h 38m52Mon44Tue53Wed45Thu43Fri1h32Sat1h38Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 3 Aug183400039
Tue 4 Aug103000444
Wed 5 Aug1821001453
Thu 6 Aug172800040
Fri 7 Aug142900034
Sat 8 Aug3148001392
Sun 9 Aug2657001598

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

Spotify: 4h 53m · 335 MB🎧 Spotify4h 53mYouTube: 2h 10m · 3.1 GB📺 YouTube2h 10mKhan Academy: 1h 20m · 114 MB📚 Khan Academy1h 20mRoblox: 1h 1m · 460 MB🧱 Roblox1h 1mNetflix: 55 min · 2.1 GB🎬 Netflix55 minMinecraft: 36 min · 96 MB⛏️ Minecraft36 min

Coloured where the service falls in a metered category. Grey is never counted against a budget: music, schoolwork, messaging.

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ServiceCategoryLookupsMinutesData
Spotifyaudio9293335 MB
YouTubevideo191303.1 GB
Khan Academyschoolwork280114 MB
Robloxgaming1761460 MB
Netflixvideo6552.1 GB
Minecraftgaming23696 MB
Earned
6 quizzes passed, +66 min (madagascar-animals, times-tables)
1 chore approved, +60 min
Worth a chat
Nothing flagged for Nova this week.

Rangi 11 · young

Everything about Rangi

Rangi was online 14h 4m across 7 days, busiest on Sun 9 Aug (2h 59m).

Time online14h 4m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits14h 41m gaming 6h 46m · video 7h 5m · social 50 min
Earned4h 50m 5 quizzes · 4 chores
Filter declined28 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Videono more than 6h a week 7h 5m
1h 5m over full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

3h2h1h0Mon 3 Aug: 1h 38mTue 4 Aug: 1h 46mWed 5 Aug: 1h 38mThu 6 Aug: 1h 22mFri 7 Aug: 1h 43mSat 8 Aug: 2h 58mSun 9 Aug: 2h 59m1h38Mon1h56Tue2h04Wed1h57Thu1h43Fri2h58Sat2h59Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 3 Aug434150998
Tue 4 Aug59461100106
Wed 5 Aug595870098
Thu 6 Aug545490082
Fri 7 Aug4648801103
Sat 8 Aug7689409178
Sun 9 Aug69896015179

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

Spotify: 5h 24m · 371 MB🎧 Spotify5h 24mYouTube: 3h 40m · 5.4 GB📺 YouTube3h 40mRoblox: 3h 3m · 1.4 GB🧱 Roblox3h 3mMinecraft: 1h 43m · 290 MB⛏️ Minecraft1h 43mNetflix: 1h 35m · 3.7 GB🎬 Netflix1h 35mFortnite: 1h 14m · 976 MB🔫 Fortnite1h 14m

Coloured where the service falls in a metered category. Grey is never counted against a budget: music, schoolwork, messaging.

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ServiceCategoryLookupsMinutesData
Spotifyaudio14324371 MB
YouTubevideo572205.4 GB
Robloxgaming321831.4 GB
Minecraftgaming6103290 MB
Netflixvideo10953.7 GB
Fortnitegaming274976 MB
Earned
5 quizzes passed, +50 min (flags-world, times-tables)
4 chores approved, +240 min
Worth a chat
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · VPN download3×

These are conversation prompts, not verdicts. Ask, do not accuse.

Piper 14 · standard

Everything about Piper

Piper was online 21h 31m across 7 days, busiest on Sat 8 Aug (4h 19m).

Time online21h 31m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits20h 25m gaming 9h 38m · video 5h 54m · social 4h 53m
Earned2h 30m 6 quizzes · 1 chore
Filter declined22 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Gamingno more than 5h a week 9h 38m
4h 38m over full week
Quiz minutesat least 2h a week 1h 15m
45 min to go full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

6h4h2h0Mon 3 Aug: 2h 30mTue 4 Aug: 2h 45mWed 5 Aug: 2h 31mThu 6 Aug: 2h 47mFri 7 Aug: 2h 33mSat 8 Aug: 4h 19mSun 9 Aug: 4h 6m2h48Mon2h45Tue2h47Wed2h47Thu2h34Fri4h19Sat4h06Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 3 Aug82454100150
Tue 4 Aug763329027165
Wed 5 Aug76484300151
Thu 6 Aug783528026167
Fri 7 Aug71483500153
Sat 8 Aug1067759017259
Sun 9 Aug896858031246

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

Spotify: 5h 6m · 350 MB🎧 Spotify5h 6mRoblox: 4h 20m · 1.9 GB🧱 Roblox4h 20mKhan Academy: 3h 42m · 318 MB📚 Khan Academy3h 42mYouTube: 3h 3m · 4.5 GB📺 YouTube3h 3mMinecraft: 2h 26m · 413 MB⛏️ Minecraft2h 26mSnapchat: 2h 15m · 771 MB👻 Snapchat2h 15m

Coloured where the service falls in a metered category. Grey is never counted against a budget: music, schoolwork, messaging.

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ServiceCategoryLookupsMinutesData
Spotifyaudio29306350 MB
Robloxgaming332601.9 GB
Khan Academyschoolwork6222318 MB
YouTubevideo591834.5 GB
Minecraftgaming7146413 MB
Snapchatsocial17135771 MB
Earned
6 quizzes passed, +75 min (nz-geography, science-basics)
1 chore approved, +60 min
Worth a chat
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · VPN download2×
warntor · torproject.org · downloading Tor1×

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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.
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.