Using HA to run make my office smart. my employees have nfc enabled badges and i want to trigger automations when they scan their card on the ACR122U nfc card reader

I am a beginner with no coding experience and use HA in my house. But now im moving into an office and I want to use it there. One of my ideas is to have employees scan their badges on the ACR122U NFC reader to trigger a custom welcome message and turn on that specific employees office lights and computer. I have everything figured out except for integrating the ACR122U into home assistant. I’m running it on a VM on a windows mini pc. Can someone please help or suggest another way I can utilize their NFC chip enables badges to achieve the same goal?

Looks like the simplest option is going to be following the instructions here: GitHub - adonno/tagreader: Simple to build/use NFC tag reader, specially created for Home Assistant

Otherwise, it’s going to be a custom solution/integration that doesn’t look like it exists yet. Hopefully that will give you at least a bit of information to go off of.

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