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Parents set the board
Chores, due dates, recurring days, open claimable tasks, and conversion rates for money or minutes.
Family Task Central
Earn the evening. Own the wifi.
Parents assign chores and learning. Kids earn points. Points become allowance or minutes of internet — enforced on your OpenWrt router while home LAN stays open.
One rhythm for the whole house
Assign → complete → earn → redeem. Screentime updates reach the router within a poll cycle — no babysitting the wifi password.
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Kids earn points
Finish tasks, import AI-made quizzes, and play learning games. Every credit lands in an auditable ledger.
3
Router grants minutes
Redeemed screentime becomes a signed grant. Your OpenWrt agent unlocks WAN for that device’s MAC, then locks it again.
Built for real family chaos
Recurring chores, overdue penalties, sibling claim races, homeschool imports, and games that can count against screentime — or not.
- Hard deadlines that auto-deduct points when missed
- Open tasks any child can claim
- JSON quiz import for external AI lesson generators
- Money redemptions parents mark fulfilled
“Screen time isn’t a negotiation anymore — it’s a balance they can see.”
Designed for Bluehost hosting, MySQL, and a small OpenWrt package you control.
Router that plays along
Budget-friendly OpenWrt hardware plus our ftc-screentime agent. Polls a signed grant file over HTTPS — works behind home NAT on shared hosting.
Best value
Cudy WR3000S (~$40–55). Wi‑Fi 6, MediaTek Filogic, official OpenWrt support, enough flash/RAM for nftables WAN gating.
Best home pick
GL.iNet Flint 2 (GL-MT6000) (~$120–150). 1GB RAM, 8GB eMMC, OpenWrt-ready — headroom for AdGuard + our agent.
Avoid as primary
Ultra-tiny travel routers with 16MB flash (e.g. Mango) — fine for demos, tight for a full family AP + packages.