It has been popular to build media players with the new Tags feature already. I also have developed some ideas about NFC media players. I had an idea that NFC tags with standard NDEF URL fields could be used as general purpose physical media format. Something that the user or musicians create and then people could share it between friends or family. It seems HA could be great to support that kind of interaction, but initial tags feature is pretty simple and concentrated only on the ID-s of NFC tags.
If we could extend it with NDEF fields that would create a new possibility with shareable tags that are not fixed to HA installations. Those tags could be playable also with any NFC-enabled smartphone that just opens a URL (youtube or soundcloud link etc). If you could separate tags into categories then you could just write one automation for this specific type. For example you would create “media tags” category and use media_extractor to get the URL content and play it on the media_player instance. No need to automate each tag separately, but just use URL from NDEF in the automation.
So for this to work we need:
- NDEF support for tags
- tag categories
- extend media_extractor to include also playlists (currently only first of playlist is played)
My own concept goes around the physical size of floppy discs, but it would be usable in any NFC tag variant (credit card size etc). I am preparing to launch some DIY open-source players at some point. Some alpha stage info here:
https://linki.cc