I love playing with my HA and associated devices. I suspect that most of you reading this get a bit of a jolt every time you add and incorporate a new sensor, camera, integration and get to play with it.

I have all the door/window sensors and locks/covers, every angle of my exterior covered with cameras, alarm, network devices, appliances, sprinklers, household devices covered.

Any ideas for a new thing I can play with?

  • rouxdooOPEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    Actually NFC tags were one of my first things back when I was using HomeKit. They are much better in HA because you can fire an event without any interaction with the device that scans it and that is pretty cool.

    Thanks, I have a 10-pack of tags that I could deploy to do random stuff for my own enjoyment. I appreciate the reminder!

    • peregusEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      The only downside is that the smartphone needs to be unlocked 🙁

      • acceptable_pumpkinEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Not if you build an NFC tag reader! Then anyone can scan tags! Great for music jukeboxes!

        • peregusEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Do you mean that smartphones can act as a NFC tag? Even when they’re locked?

          • acceptable_pumpkinEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            Oh sorry, I meant that with an nfc tag reader you don’t need the smart phone. Apologies that I wasn’t clear.

            • peregusEnglish
              2·
              9 months ago

              Oh, nooouuuu! I was so happy when I read your post! 😆 Thanks for clarifying.

      • rouxdooOPEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        You don’t need to unlock your phone to fire an event in HomeAssistant. My iPhone needs to be awake but will still scan and run shortcut while locked.

        • peregusEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          In Android NFC doesn’t work when the device is locked 🙁 That’s strange that it does on iPhones, usually is the other way around! 😄