What's the best integration for HomeKit if all I want to do is use NFC tags to trigger automations in Home Assistant?

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I can’t tell if Controller or Bridge would do this. I think I’ve confused myself

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Two ways of doing this…

  1. Through HomeKit bridge.
    Expose the entities you want to use in your nfc triggered Shortcuts.
  2. HA mobile app
    Install the HA mobile app and use general HA service calls in Shortcuts
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Is there no way to create a virtual button in Home Assistant that’s triggered by an event that occurs in homekit? I’m trying to keep as much as I can in HA.

Edit: I guess that’s what the HA for iOS would do. Weirdly its not available for download at the moment

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Sure there is. I do this for presence detection. I have a “Mike Home” input_boolean in HA, which I expose to HomeKit. It shows up as a switch in the Home app. Then I have a HomeKit automation that turns the switch on when I arrive home and off when I leave home. That is not the same use case as what you are looking for, but it would be the same general idea: A button (input_boolean) in Home Assistant that is triggered by an event that occurs in HomeKit.