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
‹ Earlier This week Week of Mon 12 Oct Later ›
40h 7m
of metered time across the house, Mon 12 Oct to Sun 18 Oct. 8h 11m earned back through 16 quizzes and 5 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.

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.

24h18h12h6h06h13Nova15h10Rangi21h52Piper
Show the numbers
ChildGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal online
Nova123250000365
Rangi4164464800777
Piper52133027301881312

Nova 7 · young

Everything about Nova

Nova was online 6h 5m across 7 days, busiest on Sun 18 Oct (1h 30m).

Time online6h 5m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits6h 13m gaming 2h 3m · video 4h 10m
Earned2h 20m 7 quizzes · 1 chore
Filter declined11 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Earned by learningat least 1h a week 2h 20m
Reached it full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

1h 30m1h30 min049Mon46Tue46Wed42Thu50Fri1h19Sat1h30Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 12 Oct153400037
Tue 13 Oct143200033
Wed 14 Oct172900034
Thu 15 Oct122400642
Fri 16 Oct1125001450
Sat 17 Oct265000379
Sun 18 Oct285600690

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

🎧 Spotify5h 55m📺 YouTube2h 10m📚 Khan Academy1h 30m🧱 Roblox56 min🎬 Netflix54 min🏰 Disney+35 min

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

Show the numbers
ServiceCategoryLookupsMinutesData
Spotifyaudio7355406 MB
YouTubevideo351303.1 GB
Khan Academyschoolwork690129 MB
Robloxgaming2556422 MB
Netflixvideo9542.2 GB
Disney+video1351.3 GB
Earned
7 quizzes passed, +80 min (madagascar-animals, times-tables)
1 chore approved, +60 min
Worth a chat
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · VPN download1×

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Rangi 11 · young

Everything about Rangi

Rangi was online 12h 57m across 7 days, busiest on Sat 17 Oct (3h 2m).

Time online12h 57m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits15h 10m gaming 6h 56m · video 7h 26m · social 48 min
Earned4h 30m 3 quizzes · 4 chores
Filter declined39 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Videono more than 6h a week 7h 26m
1h 26m over full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

4h3h2h1h01h41Mon2h03Tue1h46Wed1h54Thu1h58Fri3h02Sat2h46Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 12 Oct474950094
Tue 13 Oct595860085
Wed 14 Oct485440084
Thu 15 Oct495870082
Fri 16 Oct605260091
Sat 17 Oct80921000182
Sun 18 Oct73831000159

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

🎧 Spotify5h 1m📺 YouTube3h 51m🧱 Roblox3h 8m⛏️ Minecraft1h 44m🎬 Netflix1h 38m📚 Khan Academy1h 36m

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

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ServiceCategoryLookupsMinutesData
Spotifyaudio29301344 MB
YouTubevideo722315.6 GB
Robloxgaming421881.4 GB
Minecraftgaming11104298 MB
Netflixvideo24983.8 GB
Khan Academyschoolwork996137 MB
Earned
3 quizzes passed, +30 min (times-tables, flags-world)
4 chores approved, +240 min
Worth a chat
warntor · torproject.org · downloading Tor2×

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Piper 14 · standard

Everything about Piper

Piper was online 21h 52m across 7 days, busiest on Sun 18 Oct (4h 23m).

Time online21h 52m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits18h 44m gaming 8h 41m · video 5h 30m · social 4h 33m
Earned1h 21m 6 quizzes · 0 chores
Filter declined24 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Gamingno more than 5h a week 8h 41m
3h 41m over full week
Quiz minutesat least 2h a week 1h 21m
39 min to go full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

6h4h2h02h30Mon2h46Tue2h32Wed2h48Thu2h35Fri4h19Sat4h23Sun
Show the numbers
DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 12 Oct68314308150
Tue 13 Oct724826020166
Wed 14 Oct573729029152
Thu 15 Oct633633036168
Fri 16 Oct69424400154
Sat 17 Oct1037147038259
Sun 18 Oct896551058263

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

🎧 Spotify4h 14m🧱 Roblox3h 54m📚 Khan Academy3h 50m📺 YouTube2h 52m⛏️ Minecraft2h 10m👻 Snapchat2h 5m

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

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ServiceCategoryLookupsMinutesData
Spotifyaudio35254291 MB
Robloxgaming452341.7 GB
Khan Academyschoolwork9230329 MB
YouTubevideo591724.2 GB
Minecraftgaming4130373 MB
Snapchatsocial23125719 MB
Earned
6 quizzes passed, +81 min (science-basics, nz-geography)
Worth a chat
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.