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How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids (simplyexplained.com)
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Does it resume from the last time they watched? Does it work with TV shows too and track which episode they are on?

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The Plex deep links will automatically resume. TV shows are tricky. For that, I use the Plex integration of Home Assistant to play a random episode. It's supposed to be super powerful, but I haven't got it to work reliably yet (which is why I didn't focus on TV Shows in the blog post).

    service: media_player.play_media
data:
  media_content_type: EPISODE
  media_content_id: |-
    { 
      "library_name" : "TV shows",
      "show_name": "SHOW NAME HERE",
      "shuffle": 1,
      "maxresults": 1
    }
  enqueue: replace
target:
  entity_id: media_player.plex_plex_for_apple_tv_apple_tv
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Thank you, this gives me enough to start and play with.

    My kiddo doesn't really care too much about movies but loves TV shows. Maybe I solve it with a script if I can't get the native plex link to work

    This is going to be a good winter project for me

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    And I'm wondering if these could be adjusted to have the card be "inserted" and turn off when the card is removed?

    I have some nfc tags sitting around but they are much thicker. Maybe I can 3d print something those tags can click into and make like a mini vhs player for them

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