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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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I have one inconspicuously hidden under a sticker that will unlock one of my smart locks. Needing to unlock my phone is what prevents me from using it that often, though.
It is fun to use it when friends/family are around, and see them go "Whaaaat?!"
With iPhone shortcuts, you don’t actually read anything off the tag, it just recognizes it and runs a shortcut that calls a home assistant entity (least that’s how I do it).
Are you really that worried about someone overwriting your tags?
There’s no one in my family or friends that would even realize they’re writable, let alone actually figure out how to do it.
Agreed, I literally can't think of a real world situation that this could happen in. Same thing with people arguing about unsecured zwave devices.
I have an NFC tag which has a homeassistant action written to it, and it’s also set up in Shortcuts as an automation. It works on Android, and iOS! So no, you can’t override the shortcuts trigger.