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12h 19m
of metered time across the house, Mon 9 Nov to Sun 15 Nov so far. 4h 59m earned back through 8 quizzes and 3 approved chores. 7 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.

8h6h4h2h02h17Nova4h59Rangi7h25Piper
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ChildGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal online
Nova4790000133
Rangi1431342200285
Piper911081040142445

Nova 7 · young

Everything about Nova

Nova was online 2h 13m across 3 days, busiest on Tue 10 Nov (54 min).

Time online2h 13m 3 of 7 days
Metered habits2h 17m gaming 47 min · video 1h 30m
Earned1h 27m 2 quizzes · 1 chore
Filter declined14 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Earned by learningat least 1h a week 1h 27m
Reached it day 3 of 7
New goal hours of

Day by day

1h45 min30 min15 min046Mon54Tue44WedThuFriSatSun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 9 Nov182800035
Tue 10 Nov133400754
Wed 11 Nov162800044
Thu 12 Nov000000
Fri 13 Nov000000
Sat 14 Nov000000
Sun 15 Nov000000

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

🎧 Spotify2h 56m📺 YouTube48 min🧱 Roblox21 min🎬 Netflix19 min📚 Khan Academy18 min🏰 Disney+13 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
Spotifyaudio11176201 MB
YouTubevideo20481.1 GB
Robloxgaming2121161 MB
Netflixvideo719793 MB
Khan Academyschoolwork41826 MB
Disney+video113481 MB
Earned
2 quizzes passed, +27 min (madagascar-animals, nz-y1-3-maths)
1 chore approved, +60 min
Worth a chat
warntor · torproject.org · downloading Tor2×
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · VPN download1×

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

Rangi 11 · young

Everything about Rangi

Rangi was online 4h 45m across 3 days, busiest on Wed 11 Nov (1h 56m).

Time online4h 45m 3 of 7 days
Metered habits4h 59m gaming 2h 23m · video 2h 14m · social 22 min
Earned1h 35m 3 quizzes · 1 chore
Filter declined162 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Videono more than 6h a week 2h 14m
3h 46m left day 3 of 7
New goal hours of

Day by day

2h1h 30m1h30 min01h34Mon1h35Tue1h56WedThuFriSatSun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 9 Nov444460086
Tue 10 Nov454190083
Wed 11 Nov5449706116
Thu 12 Nov000000
Fri 13 Nov000000
Sat 14 Nov000000
Sun 15 Nov000000

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

🎧 Spotify2h 38m📺 YouTube1h 9m🧱 Roblox1h 4m📚 Khan Academy37 min⛏️ Minecraft36 min🎬 Netflix30 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
Spotifyaudio22158181 MB
YouTubevideo94691.7 GB
Robloxgaming6164491 MB
Khan Academyschoolwork133753 MB
Minecraftgaming536102 MB
Netflixvideo17301.2 GB
Earned
3 quizzes passed, +35 min (times-tables, flags-world, nz-y7-8-maths)
1 chore approved, +60 min
Worth a chat
infoproxy-vpn · nordvpn.com · VPN download2×
warntor · torproject.org · downloading Tor1×
infotime · Hit the video cap three days running. The cap may simply be in the wrong place.15 h ago

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

Piper 14 · standard

Everything about Piper

Piper was online 7h 25m across 3 days, busiest on Mon 9 Nov (2h 34m).

Time online7h 25m 3 of 7 days
Metered habits5h 3m gaming 1h 31m · video 1h 48m · social 1h 44m
Earned1h 57m 3 quizzes · 1 chore
Filter declined28 lookups the filter turned down
This week's goal
Gamingno more than 5h a week 1h 31m
3h 29m left day 3 of 7
Quiz minutesat least 2h a week 42 min
1h 18m to go day 3 of 7
New goal hours of

Day by day

3h2h1h02h34Mon2h33Tue2h18WedThuFriSatSun
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DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal
Mon 9 Nov373534048154
Tue 10 Nov223942050153
Wed 11 Nov323428044138
Thu 12 Nov000000
Fri 13 Nov000000
Sat 14 Nov000000
Sun 15 Nov000000

What they used

Active minutes per service, from the firewall counters.

📚 Khan Academy2h 37m🎧 Spotify2h 17m📺 YouTube56 min👻 Snapchat48 min🧱 Roblox41 min📸 Instagram40 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
Khan Academyschoolwork5157225 MB
Spotifyaudio18137157 MB
YouTubevideo62561.4 GB
Snapchatsocial748274 MB
Robloxgaming3141312 MB
Instagramsocial1340339 MB
Earned
3 quizzes passed, +42 min (science-basics, nz-geography)
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.10 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.
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.