the family router
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‹ Earlier This week Week of Mon 19 Oct Later ›
38h 54m
of metered time across the house, Mon 19 Oct to Sun 25 Oct. 10h 57m earned back through 18 quizzes and 7 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.

24h18h12h6h06h55Nova14h38Rangi22hPiper
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ChildGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal online
Nova1342380043415
Rangi4154095400756
Piper44334929202361320

Nova 7 · young

Everything about Nova

Nova was online 6h 55m across 7 days, busiest on Sat 24 Oct (1h 39m).

Time online6h 55m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits6h 12m gaming 2h 14m · video 3h 58m
Earned2h 56m 5 quizzes · 2 chores
Filter declined24 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Earned by learningat least 1h a week 2h 56m
Reached it full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

2h1h 30m1h30 min053Mon46Tue44Wed53Thu46Fri1h39Sat1h23Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 19 Oct1622001553
Tue 20 Oct202000646
Wed 21 Oct103400036
Thu 22 Oct1527001153
Fri 23 Oct162100946
Sat 24 Oct2860001199
Sun 25 Oct295400082

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

🎧 Spotify5h 22m📺 YouTube2h 3m📚 Khan Academy1h 27m🧱 Roblox1h 1m🎬 Netflix52 min🏰 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
Spotifyaudio23322368 MB
YouTubevideo691233.0 GB
Khan Academyschoolwork1587124 MB
Robloxgaming4861460 MB
Netflixvideo18522.0 GB
Disney+video10341.2 GB
Earned
5 quizzes passed, +56 min (madagascar-animals, times-tables)
2 chores approved, +120 min
Worth a chat
warntor · torproject.org · downloading Tor2×

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

Rangi 11 · young

Everything about Rangi

Rangi was online 12h 36m across 7 days, busiest on Sat 24 Oct (3h 4m).

Time online12h 36m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits14h 38m gaming 6h 55m · video 6h 49m · social 54 min
Earned4h 40m 4 quizzes · 4 chores
Filter declined67 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Videono more than 6h a week 6h 49m
49 min over full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

4h3h2h1h01h33Mon1h54Tue1h59Wed1h43Thu1h48Fri3h04Sat2h51Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 19 Oct464070092
Tue 20 Oct545280076
Wed 21 Oct5257100078
Thu 22 Oct504940073
Fri 23 Oct584460082
Sat 24 Oct748911010184
Sun 25 Oct8178804171

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

🎧 Spotify5h 59m📺 YouTube3h 33m🧱 Roblox3h 6m⛏️ Minecraft1h 46m🎬 Netflix1h 31m🔫 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
Spotifyaudio57359411 MB
YouTubevideo1802135.1 GB
Robloxgaming741861.4 GB
Minecraftgaming16106297 MB
Netflixvideo28913.5 GB
Fortnitegaming1374997 MB
Earned
4 quizzes passed, +40 min (times-tables, flags-world)
4 chores approved, +240 min
Worth a chat
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · VPN download3×
warntor · torproject.org · downloading Tor3×

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

Piper 14 · standard

Everything about Piper

Piper was online 22h across 7 days, busiest on Sat 24 Oct (4h 15m).

Time online22h 7 of 7 days
Metered habits18h 4m gaming 7h 23m · video 5h 49m · social 4h 52m
Earned3h 21m 9 quizzes · 1 chore
Filter declined66 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Gamingno more than 5h a week 7h 23m
2h 23m over full week
Quiz minutesat least 2h a week 2h 6m
Reached it full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

6h4h2h02h36Mon2h52Tue2h38Wed2h45Thu2h39Fri4h15Sat4h15Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 19 Oct623034030156
Tue 20 Oct654529033172
Wed 21 Oct544443017158
Thu 22 Oct504637032165
Fri 23 Oct514135032159
Sat 24 Oct747054057255
Sun 25 Oct877360035255

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

🎧 Spotify6h 44m📚 Khan Academy4h 36m🧱 Roblox3h 19m📺 YouTube3h 1m👻 Snapchat2h 15m⛏️ Minecraft1h 53m

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

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ServiceCategoryLookupsMinutesData
Spotifyaudio61404462 MB
Khan Academyschoolwork27276395 MB
Robloxgaming931991.5 GB
YouTubevideo1541814.4 GB
Snapchatsocial31135769 MB
Minecraftgaming15113317 MB
Earned
9 quizzes passed, +126 min (science-basics, nz-geography)
1 chore approved, +60 min
Worth a chat
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · VPN download1×
warntor · torproject.org · downloading Tor1×

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

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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.