NFC Tags , What projects you using them for ? Sharing ideas

[solomos (Gerasimos Solomos)]

I’m using NFC tags as remote control for my son (he is 3 years old). I’ve printed some of his favourite themes on the cards. They look like this:

So based on what he wants to watch on TV, he scans the NFC card to our phones or tablet and the appropriate video is playing on TV’s youtube.

It’s pretty cool!

I had to invent a way to pass the security popup on youtube’s app which I have posted here.

Play youtube on smart TV

The following code worked for my LG TV (55’’ with webOS). entity_id: media_player.sofita_tv command: system.launcher/launch payload: id: "youtube.leanback.v4" contentId: "nEi2Udjc0lQ" where contentId is the youtube video url. It does work! The only disappointment was that TV asks you if you want to play the video as it was called outside youtube app. Disappointment indeed as I was planning to create some NFC tags for my son (he is 3 years old) to play his favorite cartoon without paren…

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