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I’ve been struggling to manage YouTube use at home with my kids, so I built something to scratch my own itch.
It runs on the home network (Raspberry Pi or similar) and lets you:
– Group devices (e.g. TVs + tablets)
– Set shared time limits across those groups
– Once the allowance is used, YouTube stops working for that group
– Reset time limits daily or weekly
It’s open-source here: https://github.com/relloyd/tubetimeout
Still a work in progress — I plan to add TikTok and other social media blocking down the road. For now it’s been really effective, especially while my kids are younger (9 & 11) and not yet using VPNs or mobile data to get around it.
Would love feedback from this community — especially on setup, edge cases, or ideas for features.