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To work with NFC tags I use NFC for Tasker. Once the plugin is installed, tap on profile->event->plugin->NFC for Tasker. This takes you to a configuration page of the plugin, that you can use to write a tag NFC with a code associated to that profile. So, whenever your phone reads that tag, through the plugin it activates the profile, which in turn you will use to trigger the shut-down-alarm task.

What app are you using to scan your NFC tag? I use this app, NFC for Tasker, to activate a task based on what tag or card I've scanned. I was actually working on one this morning with an old hotel NFC door card (free NFC cards woohoo!). I have it placed in my wallet so that if I tap my phone to it, Tasker texts my bank for the balance and displays the amount in a pop-up. It worked fairly well during testing, without having those options on bottom come up every time. I'm not sure what app you're using, but I'd suggest checking this other one out and seeing if it helps.

Let me know if you have any questions, I like to be helpful when I can!

Obviously the "Tasker Beta" answers are more direct. I can vouch for "NFC for Tasker" though. Formerly paid, now free, and reasonably easy to set up and pass messages from the tag to other variables. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.balda.nfcfortasker

I suggest you: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.balda.nfcfortasker You can read the content of each tag, it fills Tasker variable, it has condition on NFC state, it can write tags using Tasker variable, it can write in read only mode, you can create events based on tag id or with wildcards.

You can use Home Assistant Tags Natively or you can use Tasker's Google Assistant Capability (along with an NFC Plugin for Tasker).

The thing with NFC is that you have to have something to read it. You can download a number of apps, but you would need a way to kick it off. If you have Home Assistant that's probably the cleanest implementation, but if you don't, then you'll need some way to send the command from your phone. IFTTT is a bad application of this as it is going to cost you to run anything interesting.

Well, yes you can, although it requires a plugin because Tasker doesn't work directly with NFC tags. I use NFC For Tasker, for instance, it is very lightweight and fast. The steps you need to implement are the following:

• create a profile that activates when the phone reads the tag;
• this profile will trigger a task that gets your location (accessible in the variable %LOC);
• save it to a local variable and then use the Variable Convert task selecting URL encode on it;

• now that you have your current location's coordinates, you can for instance save to clipboard the Google Maps link to them. The links are in the form:

  http://maps.google.com/?q={coordinates encoded}

• paste them in your Telegram message and you're done!

(Note, Telegram has no Tasker integration, so you cannot send them automatically, unless maybe with the AutoInput plugin)

First of all, NFC tags are passive, which means they depend on the power generated by the phone to work: so they basically work only when the phone is very close/in contact. The only substantial difference between tags is the storage capacity; there are tags that can store up to 888 bytes, but to trigger Tasker profile/tasks I make do with a 144 bytes tag. Here you can find a brief comparison of the storage needs for various kinds of data. This said, I recently discovered NFC For Tasker which is a very lightweight and fast plugin for Tasker. I think that NFC tags are very handy and once you get used to them they can very well substitute geofencing.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.balda.nfcfortasker

I do this with amiibo nfc tags and NFC for Tasker app

You format the tag with the app and then use a profile to trigger based on the tags id number, there's nothing else written to the tag, it's basically just and trigger for a tasker profile

create the profile as an event that triggers on the nfc tasker plugin, then have that run a task that does whatever you want

I have mine run a series of tasks for audio level, brightness, and to connect to bluetooth where needed

Other apps like NFC Tools can write data like contact info, bluetooth, wifi or whatever directly to the tag, which is fine if you only want it to do one or two things,and anyone with nfc can tap it, but you are limited to the number of bytes in the tag.

Where as with tasker you can trigger as much crap as you want with nested tasks, but only you can use it, or you just have to export/import the task to someone else's phone.

What Tasker approach did you take? This should be pretty straightforward with a Tasker NFC plugin (NFC for Tasker or Trigger) and SharpTools

I'm using this plugin to write: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.balda.nfcfortasker