TagTuner music player for NFC tags

luka6000 · October 27, 2024, 10:43pm

I’ve refined my old project with a brand new device style.

This is TagTuner which allows me to play music with NFC cards. There is only one automation and card holds stream url in Music Assistant format or direct http link to source if used with Sonos.
For more details please see github pages

privatesam · October 30, 2024, 11:37am

This looks like a great project thank you so much for sharing! I have some of the old tag readers which I was going to use for a security project but never did it so I’ve going to convert them for this. I suppose the issue will be flashing the firmware and that those old card readers don’t have a button for Next etc. I wonder if I can use some of my Aqara buttons in the automation for Net, Play/Pause etc instead?

luka6000 · October 30, 2024, 4:14pm

sure you can customize firmware for your tuners. Please check your esp chipset as this new version is “Made for ESPHome” program compatible and this program requires ESP32 chips. Most tagreaders I’ve seen are esp8266. This doesn’t have to be deal breaker for you and not having button and volume knob should make it possible to use old ones even with memory constraints. Thinking of it, I have one custom tagreader working on esp8266 so maybe I should make another yaml just for these old tagreaders. Right now, your on your own, unfortunately.

luka6000 · November 6, 2024, 1:59am

I’ve just pushed changes to make this firmware compatible with Adonno tagreader so you can switch to this automation and start using MAss library with NFC discs/cards

github.com

luka6000/TagTuner/blob/8b8198d82c21f0f9d9e7fea283a0ed575017ce2c/tagtuner-for-tagreader.yaml

# this is a modified PN532 to make it work with 888byte tags
external_components:
  - source: github://luka6000/TagTuner@main
    components: [ pn532 ]
    refresh: 1min

# These substitutions allow the end user to override certain values
substitutions:
  name: "tagtuner"
  friendly_name: "TagTuner"
  d1_mini: d1_mini
  buzpin: D7
  ledpin: D8

esphome:
  name: "${name}"
  friendly_name: ${friendly_name}
  # Automatically add the mac address to the name
  # so you can use a single firmware for all devices
  name_add_mac_suffix: true

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Let me know if it works for you.

privatesam · November 6, 2024, 11:18am

Thanks so much for this - will try tonight!!!

ajfriesen · November 14, 2024, 4:34pm

Very nice project!

I had a NFC Tag reader and music in home assistant working 5 years ago or so.
But the custom music service that allow google music back then did break and I did not want to build something on a flaky third party system again and ditched the project.

Now I am looking into it again.
I have one of Adonnos tag readers around.
I want to play playlists with my google homes when reading the tag.

I just setup home assistant to mount my music from my NAS.
That way YouTube Music can not break my setup.

But now I am not sure if I should stick with the build in Home Assistant Media or use Musik Assistant for my local media.
What is your recommendation/opinion on this?

luka6000 · November 16, 2024, 12:44am

Music Assistant is purpose built around music services and players. In case you’d like multiroom audio, that might be your only option if you’re not willing to invest in Sonos or other dedicated players. And it’s pretty good with mixing sources like local nas and streaming services. I don’t think HAss has ambition to be on par with services provided by MAss. But if you don’t need music catalog and library it might be total overkill for you. While I’m using Sonos and don’t have local music files, MAss with its library is a bit too much for me as I’d rather use ‚favorites’ in streaming services or physical cards with TagTuner On the other hand, MAss can be used as integration glue for all your sources and players. So it’s up to you to decide on usage scenarios.