Looking to use an NFC tag outside my front door to unlock said door regardless of iPhone or Android architecture. I know there are older topics on this, but some things have changed since and I’m starting fresh anyway. I would want to make sure only those devices authorized or logged into ST would b…

I’m using Bixby to run a scene in Smartthings when I tap a NCF-tag, but that’s maybe a Samsung only-app

I have a very similar requirement - to open/close a driveway gate from my Android phone and my wife’s iPhone. I currently have the NFC tag set up to send an HTTP request into SharpTools, but it’s not secure as anyone could do it if they knew the tag was there (and what it did).

[image] RebelMagpie: I currently have the NFC tag set up to send an HTTP request into SharpTools, but it’s not secure as anyone could do it if they knew the tag was there (and what it did). Did you write the Rule Trigger URL to the tag? Could you instead store the URL on your phone and just u…

[image] joshua_lyon: write the Rule Trigger URL to the tag? Yep, that’s exactly what I did. I was just really playing around at the time to see what was possible. I’ll have a look at Tasker to see how that works. Thx :+1:t2:

I think, in a perfect world, it could maybe be a custom URL or something like that which would know to open the SmartThings app, recognize you were already logged in, and then fire off an activity. My guess is that’s either not possible or no one knows the schema for how to do it? That way if an unk…

[image] magicarty: The goal is to not have to use, or at least minimize the use of, 3rd party apps that every phone would have to also have on their device 100%. I remember I did look at Tasker at the time, but all the tutorials I looked at used Trigger to detect the NFC tag to launch Tasker…

This is apple only so probably doesn’t help but I was doing this with Apple homekit and shortcuts. Worked flawlessly. I did use tasker with an android box but as mentioned I had security concerns. Its a real shame that ST doesn’t support universal NFC tags However ive stopped until Homebridge / sm…

[image] RebelMagpie: It’s seems like a convaltuted process to have the NFC tag be picked up by Trigger, that launches Tasker, to send URL (by opening the browser) to SharpTools, to control a Smartthings device that is cloud connected to my gate. The very gate on which the NFC tag is stuck. I …

[image] welshbryn: However ive stopped until Homebridge / smartthings link structure is sorted. I dont want to change the topic but Anyone know if this is being worked on? Conversation in the following thread. Please take further HomeKit discussion there. [RELEASE] Homebridge SmartThings v2.…

[image] orangebucket: I haven’t used Tasker for a little while but I thought it had built in support for NFC tags. It can certainly call the SmartThings API directly (see SmartThings Rest API using Tasker for inspiration). You are correct, Tasker does aupport nfc tags. I actually use it to s…

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