Parental control

Third party integrations
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Hi,
I have androids phone for my child and I would like to know what are my options for parental monitor/control and if it can connect to ha?

Can you share what you use?

Thx

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I think a lot of people here use pi-hole as a DNS server for this. What exactly do you want to achieve?

3

I also use it.
But this only give protection of adult site and only when the kid phone use the wifi.
I am looking for a software that I installed in the kid phone that monitor and block adult site , gice me location, manage screen time and app time …

4

Use adguard …I also have an Internet kill switch for my step sons devices …it cuts internet access if interested…I’ll link it

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Also adgured base on the assumption that the phone use your network.
If it use cellular network it get it dns from the network and don’t use adguard or pi hole.

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Then you need an app on his phone, I don’t think there is already an integration for any app for parental control.

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Here’s my situation and what we use. :slight_smile:
I have 8th & 5th graders, who are generally very digitally responsible and have next to no “real” social media. They have and actively use: iPhones, Android tablets, PS4, Windows laptops, and Echo Dots & SmartTvs in the home (if you want to count those).

The only paid monitoring service that I use isBark. We use this on their iPhones and Androids. It does also monitor Chrome browser on their computers, but personally we don’t use it there, because we don’t use Chrome on the Windows.

For each device, I have set up and use the built in parental settings that come free and included with each. iOS Screen Time, Android Google Family Link, Windows Microsoft Family, PS4 settings, and then some individual parent settings on apps & services such as Netflix, Prime, etc.

That’s what works for us! I hope this helps. :slight_smile:

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easy setup for this problem: Kids have to give their phones the evening. :stuck_out_tongue:

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For the kids phones I use ESET Parental Control. I currently have a docker container that scrapes the website for the status of their phone (locked fun/games, locked all, or unlocked) and pushes to mqtt.

In HA I have an input boolean for grounded, currently it only turns off the zwave outlet their TV is plugged into. I plan on making some scripts that will also toggle ESET Parental Control and Microsoft Family for their computers and xbox’s, just haven’t gotten to it yet.

Basically I want to make it so if chores are not done by an hour after they get home from school, it locks everything. Also make it easy for the wife to toggle and lock all their devices.

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I used something like this to know the interactive/screen total time on that day and notify them when some limit reaches.

  - platform: history_stats
    name: Mobile Usage today
    entity_id: binary_sensor.mobile_interactive
    state: "on"
    type: time
    start: "{{ now().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0) }}"
    end: "{{ now() }}"
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Hi
I’m also interested set up such stats graph.
Where do you get this mobile_interactive sensor from?

Thanks for your feedback.
Ben

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Hi,
Taking up this topic that, as a parent, I consider fundamental, I would like to share my opinion on it. One problem that we, as parents, face is managing the screen time of our children for games and online platforms. Each platform uses its own parental control system, and it is very complicated to manage the screen time for each one of them. For example, if we define 2 hours of screen time per day, and that time can be diversified among PlayStation, Nintendo, and YouTube, it is not possible to define those 2 hours jointly. It would be wonderfull to create an add-on or integration that allows connection to different platforms with the aim of making a joint follow-up and generating automations accordingly. With a notification when the joint 2-hour limit is exceeded on any platform for each child and their linked accounts, it would be a great first step.

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15

How are you doing the internet kill switch?

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With the unifi integration. You. Can add switches

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17

Do you still use the same setup? This sounds like exactly what I’m looking for. Would you care to share or point me towards some resources? I’m not familiar with web scraping and mqtt.

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Has anybody implemented a good parental control approach? I am using wireguard, pihole/unbound and this allows me to block sites regardless of phone location. However the parental control software for the phones seem dreadful as any child can go into safe boot mode and easily uninstall apps to gain access to whatever they want. Really surprised how bad these apps are.
Has anyone come across a working solution that works across android, apple and windows?