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‹ Earlier This week Week of Mon 2 Nov Later ›
36h 34m
of metered time across the house, Mon 2 Nov to Sun 8 Nov. 12h 51m earned back through 29 quizzes and 7 approved chores. 6 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.

24h18h12h6h06h28Nova13h50Rangi21h18Piper
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ChildGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal online
Nova1242350029388
Rangi3723946400804
Piper34237129202731278

Nova 7 · young

Everything about Nova

Nova was online 6h 28m across 7 days, busiest on Sun 8 Nov (1h 25m).

Time online6h 28m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits5h 59m gaming 2h 4m · video 3h 55m
Earned5h 31m 8 quizzes · 4 chores
Filter declined27 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Earned by learningat least 1h a week 5h 31m
Reached it full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

1h 30m1h30 min049Mon38Tue56Wed41Thu49Fri1h26Sat1h25Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 2 Nov133600045
Tue 3 Nov172100033
Wed 4 Nov1620002056
Thu 5 Nov172200241
Fri 6 Nov1028001149
Sat 7 Nov266000079
Sun 8 Nov2548001285

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

🎧 Spotify5h 11m📺 YouTube2h 2m📚 Khan Academy1h 3m🧱 Roblox57 min🎬 Netflix52 min🏰 Disney+33 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
Spotifyaudio29311356 MB
YouTubevideo661223.0 GB
Khan Academyschoolwork56390 MB
Robloxgaming5357426 MB
Netflixvideo21522.0 GB
Disney+video7331.2 GB
Earned
8 quizzes passed, +91 min (madagascar-animals, times-tables, nz-y1-3-maths, nz-y1-3-world)
4 chores approved, +240 min
Worth a chat
warntor · torproject.org · downloading Tor4×
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · VPN download1×
Already talked about (1)
infodevices · A new tablet joined the network and has not been claimed by anybody yet.9 d ago

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

Rangi 11 · young

Everything about Rangi

Rangi was online 13h 24m across 7 days, busiest on Sat 7 Nov (2h 54m).

Time online13h 24m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits13h 50m gaming 6h 12m · video 6h 34m · social 1h 4m
Earned3h 30m 9 quizzes · 2 chores
Filter declined60 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Videono more than 6h a week 6h 34m
34 min over full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

3h2h1h01h49Mon1h42Tue1h44Wed1h35Thu1h40Fri2h54Sat2h53Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 2 Nov505270099
Tue 3 Nov39511200101
Wed 4 Nov475160074
Thu 5 Nov473960395
Fri 6 Nov5238100088
Sat 7 Nov737911011174
Sun 8 Nov648412013173

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

🎧 Spotify6h 19m📺 YouTube3h 26m🧱 Roblox2h 48m⛏️ Minecraft1h 34m🎬 Netflix1h 25m🔫 Fortnite1h 6m

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

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ServiceCategoryLookupsMinutesData
Spotifyaudio57379434 MB
YouTubevideo1572065.0 GB
Robloxgaming1121681.2 GB
Minecraftgaming1594266 MB
Netflixvideo29853.4 GB
Fortnitegaming1366894 MB
Earned
9 quizzes passed, +90 min (times-tables, flags-world, nz-y7-8-maths, nz-y7-8-science)
2 chores approved, +120 min
Worth a chat
warntor · torproject.org · downloading Tor5×
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · VPN download3×

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

Piper 14 · standard

Everything about Piper

Piper was online 21h 18m across 7 days, busiest on Sat 7 Nov (4h 1m).

Time online21h 18m 7 of 7 days
Metered habits16h 45m gaming 5h 42m · video 6h 11m · social 4h 52m
Earned3h 50m 12 quizzes · 1 chore
Filter declined53 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Gamingno more than 5h a week 5h 42m
42 min over full week
Quiz minutesat least 2h a week 2h 35m
Reached it full week
New goal hours of

Day by day

6h4h2h02h29Mon2h55Tue2h28Wed2h46Thu2h41Fri4h01Sat3h58Sun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 2 Nov474132029149
Tue 3 Nov514936039175
Wed 4 Nov384938023148
Thu 5 Nov334535053166
Fri 6 Nov463932044161
Sat 7 Nov747458035241
Sun 8 Nov537461050238

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

📚 Khan Academy5h 42m🎧 Spotify5h 24m📺 YouTube3h 10m🧱 Roblox2h 34m👻 Snapchat2h 15m📸 Instagram1h 50m

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

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ServiceCategoryLookupsMinutesData
Khan Academyschoolwork20342489 MB
Spotifyaudio50324371 MB
YouTubevideo1591904.7 GB
Robloxgaming1051541.1 GB
Snapchatsocial34135769 MB
Instagramsocial51110952 MB
Earned
12 quizzes passed, +155 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 Tor1×
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.