Home Assistant How To - make NFC Tag Reader with PN532 & ESPHome

In this video we will be creating Tag Reader for Home Assistant by following GitHub project from Andrea Donno.
⏵ https://github.com/adonno/tagreader

If you don't want to DIY this or you one one-stop-shop for parts, you can order it from author by going to this link:
⏵ https://adonno-crafts.myshopify.com/collections/all

I have used following components, from AliExpress:
⏵ ESP8266 - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32633763949.html
⏵ PN532 - https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_AELRHG (*)
⏵ Buzzer - https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_9zDowE (*)
⏵ WS2812 - https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_A1cl5G (*)

For firmware upload you will need ESPHome flasher:
⏵ https://github.com/esphome/esphome-flasher/releases

Sample tagreader.yaml is located here:
⏵ https://github.com/adonno/tagreader/blob/master/tagreader.yaml

00:00 Intro
00:21 Thank you to members who joined the channel
00:34 What we will do today
01:55 Components that we need
03:20 Set DIP switches on PN532
04:08 Soldering components
14:09 ESPHome - dev branch
15:23 Preparing tagreader.yaml
18:47 Uploading FW and adding to Home Assistant
22:33 Adding Tags to Home Assistant
24:55 Simple automation
26:00 What else could you do
27:58 Wrapping up the video

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