Appreciate the details. I'd love to do similar stuff but priorities, priorities, priorities.
Was not aware that there are actually useful NFC stuff. Last time someone showed it to me it was pretty meh and I've heard that Android had a terrible implementation (Beam something?). I might be living on old info but I so rarely see anything about NFC except for payments.
Yes, there is, you can get dirt-cheap NFC stickers that you can put places and use Tasker to detect them. I mainly fire HTTP requests when a sticker is detected, but I use them for other things as well:
* I stuck one with my wifi password on the back side of a painting, so I just tell visitors who want wifi "touch your phone to the boat on the painting" and they get a prompt to connect to the wifi.
* I put one in the car to set all volume to max and enable bluetooth and launch the music app.
* I put one on the nightstand to trigger night mode in the house and silence alerts and stuff.
You can do various things like that, it's pretty useful.
From my reading Apple doesn't allow NFC for anything aside from Apple Pay. Severly limits the usefulness for me sadly. I'd say I encounter 50% iDevices.
Was not aware that there are actually useful NFC stuff. Last time someone showed it to me it was pretty meh and I've heard that Android had a terrible implementation (Beam something?). I might be living on old info but I so rarely see anything about NFC except for payments.