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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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Looking for a cheap dopamine hit ;) (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by rouxdoo@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] Towerofpain11@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (12 children)

NFC tags are cheap and fun

[–] rouxdoo@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (7 children)

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!

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] acceptable_pumpkin@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] acceptable_pumpkin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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

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