Time Based Internet Block For Specific Devices

[haldanite]

Hi, I'm hoping this is the right place to go to get some real answers.

Scenario:
I have about 15 devices that I want to block all Internet access to during 2-3 specific times of day. I tried doing this via my router and ended up crashing the router putting it into a constant reboot cycle. I was able to recover the router by turning off the Parental Controls Time Scheduling. Google AI suggested Ad Guard Home as a solution to fit my needs and not tax my router.

I was able to install Ad Guard Home on my Unraid server as a Docker on the correct network card and set it up with it's own IP. I was able to setup Client Groups (4) so I could set the different schedules for the specific devices. Some of the Groups are just 1 word while others are multiple words. I then went into Custom Filtering rules and created the rules pointing to the groups. Below is a sample of one day of rules (there are a total of 77 lines of rules amongst 4 groups:

! === Common Area Daily Standalone Blacklist Rules ===
||^$client='Common Area',time=00:00-07:00,days=mon
||^$client='Common Area',time=15:00-18:00,days=mon
||^$client='Common Area',time=20:00-23:59,days=mon

I've also tried the same rule, but adding "*" before the ^. In my router, for the static IP address assignments I created I linked the MAC with the desired IP and I set the DNS Server to point to the IP of the instance running on Unraid. Rebooted the router and the devices and can confirm that the devices show the DNS server to be the IP setup for my instance of AGH on my Unraid server.

If what Google AI says is right, then this should be directing all Internet traffic for these devices to my AGH server which should then be applying my rules. The problem is that I can see in the Query Log a lot of activity in the less than 24hrs that I've had the server running (over 16K queries and over 4K blocked by Filters), but it isn't blocking Internet access from the IP addresses in my client groups and not all the activity is showing up in the logs.

I don't know what to do at this point. Google AI says that what I want can be done with AGH, but I'm just not seeing it happen. All devices are on the same subnet and show to point to the right IP address for AGH. I have to figure that it something I setup incorrectly or that Google AI is wrong and this isn't the right solution to accomplish my goal. I'm hoping that someone can help confirm what could be happening here. The devices in the groups are Smart TVs, XBOX, ROKUs, Google Chromebooks, iPads, and for the recent testing a PC with Linux running on it.