the family router
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‹ Earlier This week Week of Mon 26 Oct Later ›
37h 47m
of metered time across the house, Mon 26 Oct to Sun 1 Nov. 13h 42m earned back through 27 quizzes and 8 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.

24h18h12h6h07h09Nova14h24Rangi21h14Piper
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ChildGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal online
Nova1492280052429
Rangi3654514800783
Piper40434927302481274

Nova 7 · young

Everything about Nova

Nova was online 7h 9m across 7 days, busiest on Sat 31 Oct (1h 34m).

Time online7h 9m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits6h 17m gaming 2h 29m · video 3h 48m
Earned5h 52m 10 quizzes · 4 chores
Filter declined29 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Earned by learningat least 1h a week 5h 52m
Reached it full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

2h1h 30m1h30 min056Mon40Tue42Wed56Thu57Fri1h34Sat1h33Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 26 Oct1726001356
Tue 27 Oct152500038
Wed 28 Oct172500035
Thu 29 Oct1925001256
Fri 30 Oct1431001257
Sat 31 Oct3145001894
Sun 1 Nov365100693

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

🎧 Spotify7h 23m📺 YouTube1h 59m🧱 Roblox1h 8m📚 Khan Academy1h 1m🎬 Netflix52 min⛏️ Minecraft38 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
Spotifyaudio20443507 MB
YouTubevideo721192.9 GB
Robloxgaming3868512 MB
Khan Academyschoolwork96187 MB
Netflixvideo10522.0 GB
Minecraftgaming738107 MB
Earned
10 quizzes passed, +112 min (madagascar-animals, nz-y1-3-maths, times-tables)
4 chores approved, +240 min
Worth a chat
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · VPN download2×

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

Rangi 11 · young

Everything about Rangi

Rangi was online 13h 3m across 7 days, busiest on Sat 31 Oct (3h 4m).

Time online13h 3m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits14h 24m gaming 6h 5m · video 7h 31m · social 48 min
Earned2h 50m 5 quizzes · 2 chores
Filter declined49 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Videono more than 6h a week 7h 31m
1h 31m over full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

4h3h2h1h01h41Mon1h41Tue1h59Wed1h38Thu1h48Fri3h04Sat2h50Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 26 Oct405470078
Tue 27 Oct395480095
Wed 28 Oct555680095
Thu 29 Oct464840098
Fri 30 Oct505350083
Sat 31 Oct67919017184
Sun 1 Nov6895700150

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

🎧 Spotify5h 38m📺 YouTube3h 54m🧱 Roblox2h 46m🎬 Netflix1h 40m⛏️ Minecraft1h 33m📚 Khan Academy1h 22m

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

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ServiceCategoryLookupsMinutesData
Spotifyaudio52338387 MB
YouTubevideo1632345.7 GB
Robloxgaming1051661.2 GB
Netflixvideo311003.9 GB
Minecraftgaming1393261 MB
Khan Academyschoolwork2582117 MB
Earned
5 quizzes passed, +50 min (flags-world, times-tables, nz-y7-8-maths)
2 chores approved, +120 min
Worth a chat
warntor · torproject.org · downloading Tor4×
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · VPN download2×

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

Piper 14 · standard

Everything about Piper

Piper was online 21h 14m across 7 days, busiest on Sun 1 Nov (4h 2m).

Time online21h 14m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits17h 6m gaming 6h 44m · video 5h 49m · social 4h 33m
Earned5h 12 quizzes · 2 chores
Filter declined65 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Gamingno more than 5h a week 6h 44m
1h 44m over full week
Quiz minutesat least 2h a week 2h 30m
Reached it full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

6h4h2h02h42Mon2h54Tue2h44Wed2h35Thu2h25Fri3h52Sat4h02Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 26 Oct454836033162
Tue 27 Oct554336040174
Wed 28 Oct593536034164
Thu 29 Oct393833045155
Fri 30 Oct553237021145
Sat 31 Oct777148036232
Sun 1 Nov748247039242

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

🎧 Spotify5h 39m📚 Khan Academy4h 59m🧱 Roblox3h 3m📺 YouTube3h 2m👻 Snapchat2h 7m📸 Instagram1h 45m

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

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ServiceCategoryLookupsMinutesData
Spotifyaudio50339388 MB
Khan Academyschoolwork21299428 MB
Robloxgaming961831.4 GB
YouTubevideo1571824.4 GB
Snapchatsocial30127719 MB
Instagramsocial52105890 MB
Earned
12 quizzes passed, +150 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 Tor5×
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · VPN download1×

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.