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NFC tags

LaurensOuwerkerkLaurensOuwerkerk Member
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Hi There,

I am puzzling with the idea to create a set of cards for my nearly 2 year old son with NFC tags attached to them. So when he holds 1 card next to Homey the music starts playing, an other one will result in the TV being switched on and to kid´s channel.

but....there are a lot of kinds of NFS tags out there, what specifications should the tag have in order to work together with the Homey?

Comments

  • MarcoFMarcoF Member
    edited January 2016
    Emile demo'd this in a video with his "OV-chipcard".
    These cards are from Infineon and the old cards are manufactured by MIFARE.

    So both Infineon and MIFARE cards should work, but it would be awesome if @Emile can answer/confirm this.

  • VincentVincent Member
    Shouldn't any kind of NFC tag work?
  • JaxcJaxc Member

     If have a bunch of programmable NFC tags at home. (Waiting for Homey) 

    Can i program them with Homey, or do i need an external NFC programming device??

  • JeroenVollenbrockJeroenVollenbrock Member
    edited January 2016
    Homey supports reading ISO 14443A (FeliCa might work as well, but that's untested). 14443B (EMV/passports/IDcards) is supported by the hardware, but those cards identify with random id's (or not at all) and are disabled by software due to privacy concerns.
  • JeroenVollenbrockJeroenVollenbrock Member
    edited January 2016

     If have a bunch of programmable NFC tags at home. (Waiting for Homey) 

    Can i program them with Homey, or do i need an external NFC programming device??

    Writing 14443A is supported by the hardware, but there is no API to enable apps to do this (yet?).
  • LaurensOuwerkerkLaurensOuwerkerk Member
    Tnx guys! Any suggestions on where to purchase?
  • MoekMoek Member
    Well, don't buy these...
    http://www.nfc-nederland-shop.nl/nfc-card-ultralight-ev1-form.html
    They are totally bricking Homey and have to pull the powerplug every time.
    So purchase suggestions also welcome here.

    But the OV-chipcard is working great by the way.
    I can see it already, no more endless instructions for the babysitter or parents.
    "you wanna watch tv? just hold the card with the tv on it close to homey" :)


  • JaxcJaxc Member
    have got these. I dont know or they will work. Or even what type they are... But i know they are nfc
  • JeroenVollenbrockJeroenVollenbrock Member
    Moek said:
    Well, don't buy these...
    http://www.nfc-nederland-shop.nl/nfc-card-ultralight-ev1-form.html
    They are totally bricking Homey and have to pull the powerplug every time.
    So purchase suggestions also welcome here.

    But the OV-chipcard is working great by the way.
    I can see it already, no more endless instructions for the babysitter or parents.
    "you wanna watch tv? just hold the card with the tv on it close to homey" :)


    You've just made me realize the cause of a bug i've been trying to reproduce and locate for months. It's related to NFC cards that contain additional data, and cause a crash later during garbage collection. That made it impossible to trace.

    You can expect a fix for this issue soon.
  • TheoDeKoningTheoDeKoning Member
    edited January 2016
    For my Samsung Galaxy S5 is there the trigger app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jwsoft.nfcactionlauncher
    There in is further a link to a shop http://nfctags.tagstand.com/ with some test package.


  • MoekMoek Member
    JeroenVollenbrock said:
    Moek said:
    Well, don't buy these...
    http://www.nfc-nederland-shop.nl/nfc-card-ultralight-ev1-form.html
    They are totally bricking Homey and have to pull the powerplug every time.
    So purchase suggestions also welcome here.

    But the OV-chipcard is working great by the way.
    I can see it already, no more endless instructions for the babysitter or parents.
    "you wanna watch tv? just hold the card with the tv on it close to homey" :)


    You've just made me realize the cause of a bug i've been trying to reproduce and locate for months. It's related to NFC cards that contain additional data, and cause a crash later during garbage collection. That made it impossible to trace.

    You can expect a fix for this issue soon.
    Glad I could help  :p
    But just to be clear, I just received it and it's a clean preformated card with nothing installed on it. 
  • tommyjaytommyjay Member
    Some time ago I backed the PhoneHome project on KickStarter, I got these mainly in future anticipation of Apple unlocking the NFC chip on the newer iPhones. I don't actually have any other NFC equipped device, so these are just sitting around waiting. But I have to say that the quality of the keychains, stickers and cards is pretty nice. 
  • p0ntsp0nts Member
    tommyjay said:
    Some time ago I backed the PhoneHome project on KickStarter, I got these mainly in future anticipation of Apple unlocking the NFC chip on the newer iPhones. I don't actually have any other NFC equipped device, so these are just sitting around waiting. But I have to say that the quality of the keychains, stickers and cards is pretty nice. 
    http://www.phonehomeproject.com/product/nfc-tag-standard-kit/

    these are nice
  • JeroenVollenbrockJeroenVollenbrock Member
    Moek said:
    Moek said:
    Well, don't buy these...
    http://www.nfc-nederland-shop.nl/nfc-card-ultralight-ev1-form.html
    They are totally bricking Homey and have to pull the powerplug every time.
    So purchase suggestions also welcome here.

    But the OV-chipcard is working great by the way.
    I can see it already, no more endless instructions for the babysitter or parents.
    "you wanna watch tv? just hold the card with the tv on it close to homey" :)


    You've just made me realize the cause of a bug i've been trying to reproduce and locate for months. It's related to NFC cards that contain additional data, and cause a crash later during garbage collection. That made it impossible to trace.

    You can expect a fix for this issue soon.
    Glad I could help  :p
    But just to be clear, I just received it and it's a clean preformated card with nothing installed on it. 
    That is correct, but even a formatted card contains (empty) data.
    Anyhow, it should be fixed in the next homey update.
     
    https://github.com/athombv/node-nfc/commit/baeffe9b3e3bb900b30650f64b842342747a13b5
  • MoekMoek Member
    JeroenVollenbrock said:
    Moek said:
    Moek said:
    Well, don't buy these...
    http://www.nfc-nederland-shop.nl/nfc-card-ultralight-ev1-form.html
    They are totally bricking Homey and have to pull the powerplug every time.
    So purchase suggestions also welcome here.

    But the OV-chipcard is working great by the way.
    I can see it already, no more endless instructions for the babysitter or parents.
    "you wanna watch tv? just hold the card with the tv on it close to homey" :)


    You've just made me realize the cause of a bug i've been trying to reproduce and locate for months. It's related to NFC cards that contain additional data, and cause a crash later during garbage collection. That made it impossible to trace.

    You can expect a fix for this issue soon.
    Glad I could help  :p
    But just to be clear, I just received it and it's a clean preformated card with nothing installed on it. 
    That is correct, but even a formatted card contains (empty) data.
    Anyhow, it should be fixed in the next homey update.
     
    https://github.com/athombv/node-nfc/commit/baeffe9b3e3bb900b30650f64b842342747a13b5
    Cool, thx!
  • GeurtDijkerGeurtDijker Member
    ModBreak:
    This post/discussion is deprecated and therefore closed.
    There is a new central Discussion about NFC here: https://forum.athom.com/discussion/3664/x/p1
    For questions or if someone disagrees, please contact me or one of the Community moderators.


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