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‹ Earlier This week Week of Mon 17 Aug Later ›
37h 13m
of metered time across the house, Mon 17 Aug to Sun 23 Aug. 14h 38m earned back through 26 quizzes and 9 approved chores. 5 things worth a quiet word.

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

See the 30 day trend

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: 7h 19mRangi: 13h 17mPiper: 21h 36m7h19Nova14h15Rangi21h36Piper
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ChildGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal online
Nova1412330065439
Rangi3914006400797
Piper38433828202921296

Nova 7 · young

Everything about Nova

Nova was online 7h 19m across 7 days, busiest on Sun 23 Aug (1h 38m).

Time online7h 19m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits6h 14m gaming 2h 21m · video 3h 53m
Earned5h 54m 5 quizzes · 5 chores
Filter declined31 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Earned by learningat least 1h a week 5h 54m
Reached it full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

2h1h 30m1h30 min0Mon 17 Aug: 56 minTue 18 Aug: 57 minWed 19 Aug: 34 minThu 20 Aug: 49 minFri 21 Aug: 51 minSat 22 Aug: 1h 34mSun 23 Aug: 1h 38m56Mon57Tue35Wed49Thu51Fri1h34Sat1h38Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 17 Aug2021001556
Tue 18 Aug1532001057
Wed 19 Aug102500034
Thu 20 Aug1423001249
Fri 21 Aug202700451
Sat 22 Aug2751001694
Sun 23 Aug355400998

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

Spotify: 5h 9m · 354 MB🎧 Spotify5h 9mYouTube: 2h 2m · 2.9 GB📺 YouTube2h 2mKhan Academy: 1h 23m · 119 MB📚 Khan Academy1h 23mRoblox: 1h 4m · 484 MB🧱 Roblox1h 4mNetflix: 52 min · 2.0 GB🎬 Netflix52 minMinecraft: 37 min · 101 MB⛏️ Minecraft37 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
Spotifyaudio29309354 MB
YouTubevideo931222.9 GB
Khan Academyschoolwork1483119 MB
Robloxgaming4764484 MB
Netflixvideo18522.0 GB
Minecraftgaming1237101 MB
Earned
5 quizzes passed, +54 min (madagascar-animals, times-tables, nz-y1-3-maths)
5 chores approved, +300 min
Worth a chat
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · VPN download1×

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Rangi 11 · young

Everything about Rangi

Rangi was online 13h 17m across 7 days, busiest on Sun 23 Aug (3h).

Time online13h 17m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits14h 15m gaming 6h 31m · video 6h 40m · social 1h 4m
Earned2h 50m 5 quizzes · 2 chores
Filter declined69 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Videono more than 6h a week 6h 40m
40 min over full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

3h2h1h0Mon 17 Aug: 1h 33mTue 18 Aug: 1h 35mWed 19 Aug: 1h 17mThu 20 Aug: 1h 27mFri 21 Aug: 1h 44mSat 22 Aug: 2h 41mSun 23 Aug: 3h1h49Mon1h49Tue1h34Wed1h51Thu1h44Fri2h43Sat3hSun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 17 Aug5742100093
Tue 18 Aug5147110095
Wed 19 Aug384970077
Thu 20 Aug4952100087
Fri 21 Aug48421103104
Sat 22 Aug6791500161
Sun 23 Aug817710012180

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

Spotify: 5h 10m · 355 MB🎧 Spotify5h 10mYouTube: 3h 27m · 5.0 GB📺 YouTube3h 27mRoblox: 2h 56m · 1.3 GB🧱 Roblox2h 56mMinecraft: 1h 38m · 280 MB⛏️ Minecraft1h 38mNetflix: 1h 27m · 3.4 GB🎬 Netflix1h 27mFortnite: 1h 11m · 940 MB🔫 Fortnite1h 11m

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

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ServiceCategoryLookupsMinutesData
Spotifyaudio54310355 MB
YouTubevideo1802075.0 GB
Robloxgaming941761.3 GB
Minecraftgaming2098280 MB
Netflixvideo35873.4 GB
Fortnitegaming1071940 MB
Earned
5 quizzes passed, +50 min (times-tables, flags-world, nz-y7-8-maths)
2 chores approved, +120 min
Worth a chat
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · VPN download5×
warntor · torproject.org · downloading Tor4×

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Piper 14 · standard

Everything about Piper

Piper was online 21h 36m across 7 days, busiest on Sat 22 Aug (4h 5m).

Time online21h 36m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits16h 44m gaming 6h 24m · video 5h 38m · social 4h 42m
Earned5h 54m 16 quizzes · 2 chores
Filter declined77 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Gamingno more than 5h a week 6h 24m
1h 24m over full week
Quiz minutesat least 2h a week 3h 24m
Reached it full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

6h4h2h0Mon 17 Aug: 2h 41mTue 18 Aug: 2h 39mWed 19 Aug: 2h 43mThu 20 Aug: 2h 59mFri 21 Aug: 2h 44mSat 22 Aug: 4h 5mSun 23 Aug: 3h 45m2h41Mon2h39Tue2h43Wed2h59Thu2h44Fri4h05Sat3h45Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 17 Aug453533048161
Tue 18 Aug553042032159
Wed 19 Aug473431051163
Thu 20 Aug494127062179
Fri 21 Aug404139044164
Sat 22 Aug788456027245
Sun 23 Aug707354028225

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

Spotify: 5h 2m · 346 MB🎧 Spotify5h 2mKhan Academy: 4h 56m · 423 MB📚 Khan Academy4h 56mYouTube: 2h 56m · 4.3 GB📺 YouTube2h 56mRoblox: 2h 53m · 1.3 GB🧱 Roblox2h 53mSnapchat: 2h 9m · 742 MB👻 Snapchat2h 9mInstagram: 1h 48m · 920 MB📸 Instagram1h 48m

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

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ServiceCategoryLookupsMinutesData
Spotifyaudio49302346 MB
Khan Academyschoolwork25296423 MB
YouTubevideo1471764.3 GB
Robloxgaming981731.3 GB
Snapchatsocial31129742 MB
Instagramsocial43108920 MB
Earned
16 quizzes passed, +204 min (nz-geography, science-basics, nz-y9-10-science, nz-y9-10-maths)
2 chores approved, +120 min
Worth a chat
warntor · torproject.org · downloading Tor3×
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · VPN download2×

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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.
10% 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.