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16h 55m
of metered time across the house, Mon 31 Aug to Sun 6 Sep so far. 8h 57m earned back through 18 quizzes and 5 approved chores. 4 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.

12h9h6h3h0Nova: 3h 11mRangi: 6h 12mPiper: 10h 29m3h11Nova6h51Rangi10h29Piper
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ChildGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal online
Nova611170013191
Rangi1941873000372
Piper1341591330203629

Nova 7 · young

Everything about Nova

Nova was online 3h 11m across 4 days, busiest on Thu 3 Sep (57 min).

Time online3h 11m 4 of 7 days
Metered habits2h 58m gaming 1h 1m · video 1h 57m
Earned2h 59m 5 quizzes · 2 chores
Filter declined10 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Earned by learningat least 1h a week 2h 59m
Reached it day 4 of 7
New goal hours of

Day by day

1h45 min30 min15 min0Mon 31 Aug: 39 minTue 1 Sep: 47 minWed 2 Sep: 48 minThu 3 Sep: 57 minFri 4 Sep: 0 minSat 5 Sep: 0 minSun 6 Sep: 0 min40Mon47Tue48Wed57ThuFriSatSun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 31 Aug142600039
Tue 1 Sep192700147
Wed 2 Sep93600348
Thu 3 Sep1928001057
Fri 4 Sep000000
Sat 5 Sep000000
Sun 6 Sep000000

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

Spotify: 2h 56m · 201 MB🎧 Spotify2h 56mYouTube: 1h 2m · 1.5 GB📺 YouTube1h 2mKhan Academy: 48 min · 69 MB📚 Khan Academy48 minRoblox: 28 min · 209 MB🧱 Roblox28 minNetflix: 26 min · 1.0 GB🎬 Netflix26 minDisney+: 17 min · 625 MB🏰 Disney+17 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
Spotifyaudio13176201 MB
YouTubevideo40621.5 GB
Khan Academyschoolwork124869 MB
Robloxgaming2128209 MB
Netflixvideo10261.0 GB
Disney+video017625 MB
Earned
5 quizzes passed, +59 min (times-tables, madagascar-animals, nz-y1-3-maths)
2 chores approved, +120 min
Worth a chat
warntor · torproject.org · downloading Tor1×

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Rangi 11 · young

Everything about Rangi

Rangi was online 6h 12m across 4 days, busiest on Thu 3 Sep (1h 55m).

Time online6h 12m 4 of 7 days
Metered habits6h 51m gaming 3h 14m · video 3h 7m · social 30 min
Earned2h 55m 5 quizzes · 2 chores
Filter declined160 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Videono more than 6h a week 3h 7m
2h 53m left day 4 of 7
New goal hours of

Day by day

2h1h 30m1h30 min0Mon 31 Aug: 1h 32mTue 1 Sep: 1h 10mWed 2 Sep: 1h 35mThu 3 Sep: 1h 55mFri 4 Sep: 0 minSat 5 Sep: 0 minSun 6 Sep: 0 min1h53Mon1h40Tue1h46Wed1h55ThuFriSatSun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 31 Aug495860092
Tue 1 Sep523990070
Wed 2 Sep524950095
Thu 3 Sep414110023115
Fri 4 Sep000000
Sat 5 Sep000000
Sun 6 Sep000000

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

Spotify: 2h 57m · 203 MB🎧 Spotify2h 57mYouTube: 1h 36m · 2.4 GB📺 YouTube1h 36mRoblox: 1h 26m · 666 MB🧱 Roblox1h 26mMinecraft: 48 min · 139 MB⛏️ Minecraft48 minNetflix: 42 min · 1.6 GB🎬 Netflix42 minKhan Academy: 40 min · 57 MB📚 Khan Academy40 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
Spotifyaudio37177203 MB
YouTubevideo131962.4 GB
Robloxgaming6286666 MB
Minecraftgaming1348139 MB
Netflixvideo19421.6 GB
Khan Academyschoolwork94057 MB
Earned
5 quizzes passed, +55 min (times-tables, nz-y7-8-maths, flags-world)
2 chores approved, +120 min
Worth a chat
infotime · Hit the video cap three days running. The cap may simply be in the wrong place.18 h ago

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Piper 14 · standard

Everything about Piper

Piper was online 10h 29m across 4 days, busiest on Mon 31 Aug (2h 42m).

Time online10h 29m 4 of 7 days
Metered habits7h 6m gaming 2h 14m · video 2h 39m · social 2h 13m
Earned3h 3m 8 quizzes · 1 chore
Filter declined32 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Gamingno more than 5h a week 2h 14m
2h 46m left day 4 of 7
Quiz minutesat least 2h a week 1h 48m
On track day 4 of 7
New goal hours of

Day by day

3h2h1h0Mon 31 Aug: 2h 42mTue 1 Sep: 2h 23mWed 2 Sep: 2h 42mThu 3 Sep: 2h 42mFri 4 Sep: 0 minSat 5 Sep: 0 minSun 6 Sep: 0 min2h42Mon2h23Tue2h42Wed2h42ThuFriSatSun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 31 Aug393834051162
Tue 1 Sep324533033143
Wed 2 Sep383227065162
Thu 3 Sep254439054162
Fri 4 Sep000000
Sat 5 Sep000000
Sun 6 Sep000000

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

Spotify: 3h 35m · 246 MB🎧 Spotify3h 35mKhan Academy: 3h 24m · 292 MB📚 Khan Academy3h 24mYouTube: 1h 23m · 2.0 GB📺 YouTube1h 23mSnapchat: 1h 1m · 350 MB👻 Snapchat1h 1mRoblox: 1h · 460 MB🧱 Roblox1hInstagram: 51 min · 434 MB📸 Instagram51 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
Spotifyaudio29215246 MB
Khan Academyschoolwork8204292 MB
YouTubevideo86832.0 GB
Snapchatsocial1561350 MB
Robloxgaming3860460 MB
Instagramsocial2551434 MB
Earned
8 quizzes passed, +108 min (nz-geography, science-basics, nz-y9-10-science)
1 chore approved, +60 min
Worth a chat
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · Looked up a VPN download. Usually curiosity, occasionally a way round the filter. Worth asking.13 h ago
Already talked about (1)
warntor · torproject.org · Read the Tor project site. Talked about it, she was researching a school topic on privacy.2 d ago

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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.
8% 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.