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‹ Earlier This week Week of Mon 24 Aug Later ›
36h 11m
of metered time across the house, Mon 24 Aug to Sun 30 Aug. 9h 44m earned back through 33 quizzes and 3 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.

20h15h10h5h0Nova: 7h 14mRangi: 12h 32mPiper: 19h 52m7h14Nova14h02Rangi19h52Piper
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ChildGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal online
Nova1232350076434
Rangi3514355600752
Piper34632530002211192

Nova 7 · young

Everything about Nova

Nova was online 7h 14m across 7 days, busiest on Sun 30 Aug (1h 41m).

Time online7h 14m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits5h 58m gaming 2h 3m · video 3h 55m
Earned2h 7m 11 quizzes · 0 chores
Filter declined35 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Earned by learningat least 1h a week 2h 7m
Reached it full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

2h1h 30m1h30 min0Mon 24 Aug: 46 minTue 25 Aug: 49 minWed 26 Aug: 34 minThu 27 Aug: 52 minFri 28 Aug: 52 minSat 29 Aug: 1h 40mSun 30 Aug: 1h 41m46Mon49Tue44Wed52Thu52Fri1h40Sat1h41Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 24 Aug112600946
Tue 25 Aug1325001149
Wed 26 Aug113300034
Thu 27 Aug1823001152
Fri 28 Aug1226001452
Sat 29 Aug25530022100
Sun 30 Aug33490019101

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

Spotify: 6h 20m · 435 MB🎧 Spotify6h 20mYouTube: 2h 3m · 3.0 GB📺 YouTube2h 3mKhan Academy: 1h 28m · 126 MB📚 Khan Academy1h 28mRoblox: 55 min · 422 MB🧱 Roblox55 minNetflix: 53 min · 2.0 GB🎬 Netflix53 minDisney+: 34 min · 1.2 GB🏰 Disney+34 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
Spotifyaudio29380435 MB
YouTubevideo1091233.0 GB
Khan Academyschoolwork888126 MB
Robloxgaming4655422 MB
Netflixvideo19532.0 GB
Disney+video7341.2 GB
Earned
11 quizzes passed, +127 min (madagascar-animals, nz-y1-3-maths, times-tables, nz-y1-3-world)
Worth a chat
warntor · torproject.org · downloading Tor2×
Already talked about (1)
infodevices · A new tablet joined the network and has not been claimed by anybody yet.9 d ago

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Rangi 11 · young

Everything about Rangi

Rangi was online 12h 32m across 7 days, busiest on Sun 30 Aug (2h 45m).

Time online12h 32m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits14h 2m gaming 5h 51m · video 7h 15m · social 56 min
Earned3h 20m 8 quizzes · 2 chores
Filter declined63 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Videono more than 6h a week 7h 15m
1h 15m over full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

3h2h1h0Mon 24 Aug: 1h 44mTue 25 Aug: 1h 26mWed 26 Aug: 1h 11mThu 27 Aug: 1h 18mFri 28 Aug: 1h 30mSat 29 Aug: 2h 38mSun 30 Aug: 2h 45m1h51Mon1h41Tue1h41Wed1h43Thu1h33Fri2h45Sat2h48Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 24 Aug4953900104
Tue 25 Aug425360086
Wed 26 Aug405650071
Thu 27 Aug455080078
Fri 28 Aug424290090
Sat 29 Aug6593700158
Sun 30 Aug68881200165

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

Spotify: 4h 31m · 310 MB🎧 Spotify4h 31mYouTube: 3h 47m · 5.5 GB📺 YouTube3h 47mRoblox: 2h 38m · 1.2 GB🧱 Roblox2h 38mNetflix: 1h 35m · 3.7 GB🎬 Netflix1h 35mKhan Academy: 1h 28m · 126 MB📚 Khan Academy1h 28mMinecraft: 1h 28m · 251 MB⛏️ Minecraft1h 28m

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

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ServiceCategoryLookupsMinutesData
Spotifyaudio37271310 MB
YouTubevideo1412275.5 GB
Robloxgaming801581.2 GB
Netflixvideo34953.7 GB
Khan Academyschoolwork1888126 MB
Minecraftgaming1688251 MB
Earned
8 quizzes passed, +80 min (times-tables, flags-world, nz-y7-8-maths, nz-y7-8-science)
2 chores approved, +120 min
Worth a chat
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · VPN download2×
warntor · torproject.org · downloading Tor1×

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Piper 14 · standard

Everything about Piper

Piper was online 19h 52m across 7 days, busiest on Sun 30 Aug (3h 29m).

Time online19h 52m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits16h 11m gaming 5h 46m · video 5h 25m · social 5h
Earned4h 17m 14 quizzes · 1 chore
Filter declined58 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Gamingno more than 5h a week 5h 46m
46 min over full week
Quiz minutesat least 2h a week 3h 2m
Reached it full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

4h3h2h1h0Mon 24 Aug: 2h 31mTue 25 Aug: 2h 44mWed 26 Aug: 2h 34mThu 27 Aug: 2h 49mFri 28 Aug: 2h 19mSat 29 Aug: 3h 26mSun 30 Aug: 3h 29m2h31Mon2h44Tue2h34Wed2h49Thu2h19Fri3h28Sat3h29Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 24 Aug363342040151
Tue 25 Aug514427042164
Wed 26 Aug463544029154
Thu 27 Aug403130068169
Fri 28 Aug423231034139
Sat 29 Aug65806300206
Sun 30 Aug667063010209

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

Spotify: 6h 7m · 420 MB🎧 Spotify6h 7mKhan Academy: 5h 32m · 475 MB📚 Khan Academy5h 32mYouTube: 2h 49m · 4.1 GB📺 YouTube2h 49mRoblox: 2h 36m · 1.2 GB🧱 Roblox2h 36mSnapchat: 2h 17m · 790 MB👻 Snapchat2h 17mInstagram: 1h 54m · 978 MB📸 Instagram1h 54m

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

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ServiceCategoryLookupsMinutesData
Spotifyaudio62367420 MB
Khan Academyschoolwork27332475 MB
YouTubevideo1731694.1 GB
Robloxgaming991561.2 GB
Snapchatsocial30137790 MB
Instagramsocial48114978 MB
Earned
14 quizzes passed, +182 min (nz-geography, science-basics, nz-y9-10-science, nz-y9-10-english)
1 chore approved, +60 min
Worth a chat
warntor · torproject.org · downloading Tor2×
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · VPN download1×

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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.