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An NFC movie library for my kids

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Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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And then the issue of when the streaming service removes the choice; the card become obsolete. Not that bad of a ordeal though.

With only a little bit of effort you can prevent them from becoming obsolete. Most straightforward way is to just reprogram the nfc chip. Alternatively, Just add a redirector, one that maps show names/ids to the urls.

Easier to download the shows and save to your plex server. Then it'll work even if your Internet connection stops working.

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

#104

Heck, even as an adult I would enjoy something like this. I love the idea.

OP here.

Same here! I have debated making something similar for my personal music collection. I used to meticulously organize my albums in iTunes and listen to them in full. Somehow I stopped doing that with Spotify. The magic of the album is gone for me.

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

#105
This is a very cool project, and I like the nostalgic feel of it! However, this project got me thinking:

We are on a forum filled with people working on these super addicting infinite scroll technologies at YouTube, Instagram, maybe even TikTok. At the same time though, this post removing all these addictive technologies has reached the #1 spot on HN (and HN is deliberately made without any of this addicting tech!!)

I think it is time for people to really realize how addicting the tech they are making is, without masking it with words like 'friction' and 'engagement'. And hopefully they will slowly work on making their tech a little bit less addictive.

Before Covid we had some kind of movement like this, but it has sadly dwindled.

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

#107

Really cool. But why not just have them handle the blu rays directly? Unless - you ripped them to your Plex and resold them…

OP here.

Fair question! I have all the disks. They're in the garage gathering dust.

My kids are 3 and 2, so letting them handle the disks isn't a great idea right now. Might do that one day though!

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

#108

This is incredible! I want to replicate this at home as well, but I would prefer to use QR codes since they also support URLs. Any reason why you went with NFC instead of QR code? I assume it's doable with a raspberry pi and webcam instead of tapping?

It's probably easier to embed an NFC tag in something child-friendly, compared to printing QR codes on something that small kids won't destroy.

Also in this case (since it just laminated cards anyway) the usability is much easier. The kid just has to touch something. While with a QR it has to be positioned in a way that a camera can see and focus to it.

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

#109
I build something very similar, but for playing music/audio books in my kids rooms. But this is not why I am commenting: I found "HERMA 5028 Universal" stickers to be a very good fit for rfid/nfc cards; I don't know if they're available where you live, but here in germany they're a great solution for labeling cards.

PS: I will also publish my solution once I rewrite a few parts of it (cleanup).

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