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An NFC movie library for my kids
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Re: An NFC movie library for my kids
#182Nice idea, and great implementation.
And I really resonate with the "physical media is great" mantra. That's why I still buy a lot of DVDs of the movies I or my kids like. Last winter we had a two day internet outage, and all of the neighbors came to me for lending DVDs :D
That experience reinforced my believe in physical media more than ever!
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#183Looks great. I am working on side to learn product design by working on a similar system for music. The idea is to have the tactile feel of a vinyl like system but with the features of a digital library and ecosystem. The base implementation was really straightforward and hardly a few hours but to make it bridge the gap we see with our digital tools emulating analog ones is quite fun to work on. From the latency invo…
I always thought it would be nice to simply add QR codes to my vinyls. Get that feel of browsing, and then simply open the Spotify URL.
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#184I have an extremely similar setup for my 3yr old. He has his NFC cards and select from stuff we find suitable. The TV comes on, one episode runs, TV goes off. He's not fighting over the remote and he has agency. And he's certainly not stumbling his way through YouTube on a tablet. No ads. Very nice for him. It's not yet necessary to track his usage. But I'm well prepared for it. Home Assistant works very well for the…
I, too, built almost the same thing for my kids. It plays music, using Spotify, Chromecast, and a whole lot of virtual duct-tape via HomeAssistant. There is also an NFC tag that will turn off all the lights and turn on a disco ball :-).
Emergency Party Button strikes again! https://youtu.be/nZIfIzNW9xM
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#185This 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?
OP here I actually hadn't considered QR codes. To be honest, I had some NFC tags laying around and I was desperate to find a project for them ;) QR codes might be more complicated because you need a camera and a well-lit environment. NFC tags don't have that issue.
I was surprised that you opted to use the tag ID as a primary key instead of writing the relevant metadata to the NFC tags in the first place. NTAG215s have about 500 bytes worth of rewritable storage, so you could even embed the full deep links if you so desired.
https://www.shopnfc.com/en/content/6-nfc-tags-specs
It also seems that ESPHome has support for reading / writing this arbitrary metadata, once you move to the PN532:
https://esphome.io/components/binary_sensor/pn532.html#ndef
(It's not clear that you can access the metadata with the RC522 through ESPHome, but the hardware should support it.)
But hey, what you've got works.
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#186> And finally, if you're a non-English speaker, Blu-rays will include a dubbed version in your native language. This is a big plus for the kids, especially when they're as young as mine are now. I grew up in a country where English is not the primary language spoken and when I was young all the cool shows and movies were in English. As a kid this was a huge incentive and went far above and beyond any education I had…
When I was 14-18 I watched anime (japanese dubs with eng subs). The censorship of the german dubs got me into it and I hated german subs plus the english subs were faster and the germans often were double translated (jap > eng > ger). My english grades were very good thanks to it. Now I'm exposed more to english (movies, shows, internet, os) than german I've switched to german subs and started watching anime again 20…
Yeah my native language is afrikaans which also has the 4 and 20 for 24 vibe. For me the difficulty is was with times tables strangely enough, as long after I started thinking primarily in English I was still doing times tables in afrikaans
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#187For "project adjacent", look at `catt` - Cast ALL the things!
https://blog.fuzzymistborn.com/homeassistant-and-catt-cast-a...
You can cast YouTube URLs directly, as well as general media files over the local network.
My theory is QR-codes up to a camera: http://192.168.1.123/randomvid.php?topic=XYZ => shuf | head -1 | catt --target=$MY_TV
You can even do QR code reading via a web-page, and "add-to-homepage" if you wanted to put it onto an iPad.
Obviously the OP project is better thought out, but it's quite good to learn different bits and pieces and strategies about deep linking and internal media.
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#188> And finally, if you're a non-English speaker, Blu-rays will include a dubbed version in your native language. This is a big plus for the kids, especially when they're as young as mine are now. I grew up in a country where English is not the primary language spoken and when I was young all the cool shows and movies were in English. As a kid this was a huge incentive and went far above and beyond any education I had…
When I was 14-18 I watched anime (japanese dubs with eng subs). The censorship of the german dubs got me into it and I hated german subs plus the english subs were faster and the germans often were double translated (jap > eng > ger). My english grades were very good thanks to it. Now I'm exposed more to english (movies, shows, internet, os) than german I've switched to german subs and started watching anime again 20…
> German numbers are one-hundred-five-and-fifty instead of one-hundred-fifty-five and too many of my thoughts are in english
Both are fine in the UK, though the "five-and-fifty" form is somewhat old fashioned. My Grandmother used to say numbers like that, especially for time. I refer you also to "Sing a Song of Sixpence" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence
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#189Awesome. Reminded me of Yoto, an internet radio style thing for kids that uses little NFC cards. https://us.yotoplay.com/ Techmoan reviewed it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mQECKOkkqk Less directly was Tonies, an audio player for kids that uses NFC on Skyrim style figures to trigger stories. https://us.tonies.com/ Techmoan did a video on that too (it’s how I know about both): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…
Also a big fan of Yoto. Although, ironically, the greatest use for us is its use as a wakeup light it has around the base.
My daughter knows that the Yoto is in charge of when she needs to stay in bed or when she can walk around. "When the light is red, stay in bed."
Re: An NFC movie library for my kids
#190> And finally, if you're a non-English speaker, Blu-rays will include a dubbed version in your native language. This is a big plus for the kids, especially when they're as young as mine are now. I grew up in a country where English is not the primary language spoken and when I was young all the cool shows and movies were in English. As a kid this was a huge incentive and went far above and beyond any education I had…
When I was 14-18 I watched anime (japanese dubs with eng subs). The censorship of the german dubs got me into it and I hated german subs plus the english subs were faster and the germans often were double translated (jap > eng > ger). My english grades were very good thanks to it. Now I'm exposed more to english (movies, shows, internet, os) than german I've switched to german subs and started watching anime again 20…
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Maybe this one of those sites that don't let you view them from outside their intended region, but I'd use 403 for that, so I assume it just got hugged