Soon, your sons will learn how to hack into this system, bypass your time limits, use the NFC cards you provided to play other cartoons, or convert your NFC reader into a room door lock.
An NFC movie library for my kids
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Re: An NFC movie library for my kids
#122The movies visible in the photos in the article, and their runtimes in minutes, are: 94 The Good Dinosaur 92 Trolls 98 Wall-E 88 The Lion King 103 Moana 81 Toy Story 91 Trolls World Tour 95 Inside Out 103 Frozen II 95 A Bug's Life > We have two boys, and the eldest is permitted a 30-minute TV session in the morning and another in the evening. So...if one of them wants to watch The Lion King or Toy Story they have to…
Author here (surreal to see my post at the top of HN!) My kids are 3 and 2, and they don't watch TV like adults. They watch a bit of movie, get up, walk around, do something else, come back, and watch a bit of another movie or even switch to a TV show. It's weird! I like your idea about flexibility, but they're too young right now. Maybe we'll introduce your "bank" concept when they get older or increase the "TV budg…
I have learned that doing just weekends for TV is much better for small kids so they don't get used to TV watching.
Re: An NFC movie library for my kids
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What app do you have on your phone to do this?
I use "NFC Tools" to write the URL, which I copy the album/song URL from Spotify and embed it. When I hold my phone near it, the URL appears in the notifications, and clicking it opens it in Spotify, which then starts playing it. I have a bag of 100 tags I got from a friend so no shortage there.
Love the simplicity of this. Out of interest, do you trigger just the web player or is there a URL pattern that can launch onto a specific device?
Re: An NFC movie library for my kids
#124This is absolutely awesome.
For v2 I'd say the NFC cards be the size and shape of a VHS and you have to leave them in the slot to play. If you take them out it stops playing.
Maybe v3 you need to virtually rewind them before they work again? :-)
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My 3 year old gets 15 minutes (!) max per day. Only on weekdays. Weekends no screens.
That's closer to how I'd like to handle it when my 3m old is old enough. But are you able to properly restrict your screen time as well? Seems complicated to tell a kid they can't do something their parents are doing multiple hours a day.
Yes, we don't tend to be on our phones near him. Not just to set a good example, but I've found that being glued to your phone isn't really a great thing anyway. For doing real work I sit in my home office with the door closed.
Re: An NFC movie library for my kids
#126This is absolutely awesome. For v2 I'd say the NFC cards be the size and shape of a VHS and you have to leave them in the slot to play. If you take them out it stops playing. Maybe v3 you need to virtually rewind them before they work again? :-)
OP here
Definitely crossed my mind! Especially the slot system!
Rewinding could be fun as well. I could use our Sonos speakers to play the VHS rewinding sound, lol
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IMO it’s at least as important to be satisfied after one thing has ended, and not start the next thing.
I'm in my 30s and I can't leave a movie unfinished. I'll either be up all night thinking about how it ends or never start it up again forever wondering.
I have the opposite issue, I usually stop watching after 30mn and never return
Re: An NFC movie library for my kids
#128This is absolutely awesome. For v2 I'd say the NFC cards be the size and shape of a VHS and you have to leave them in the slot to play. If you take them out it stops playing. Maybe v3 you need to virtually rewind them before they work again? :-)
V4 all the cards are stored in a little blockbuster and the child has tokens he can use to 'rent' movies
V5 he starts franchising....
Re: An NFC movie library for my kids
#129This is fun, but wouldn't some second hand Blu Rays have been simpler?
Re: An NFC movie library for my kids
#130The movies visible in the photos in the article, and their runtimes in minutes, are: 94 The Good Dinosaur 92 Trolls 98 Wall-E 88 The Lion King 103 Moana 81 Toy Story 91 Trolls World Tour 95 Inside Out 103 Frozen II 95 A Bug's Life > We have two boys, and the eldest is permitted a 30-minute TV session in the morning and another in the evening. So...if one of them wants to watch The Lion King or Toy Story they have to…
Every parent is required to say they only allow very limited screen time even if secretly they all allow quite a bit more.
Well, the nice thing about having borders is that you can allow those borders to disappear every now and then. Feels like something special for the kid!