This may far fetched, but I think all the pieces are there…
I think of a child not able to use a remote well, but wants to pick a movie to watch… takes it in front of the camera and it recognizes it and commands jellyfin to play if in it’s library (it should be…).
I see grocery scans, trading card scanners, so I think with feeding it the tvdb images it may work.
Think this is doable? Someone else try this?
Thanks!
I thought I just saw this exact thing posted, let me search.
Your question reminds me of this; https://talaexe.com/moderndayrecordplayer ,
You might try NFC for this rather than a camera. A usb reader/writer is $30-50, the stickers are $0.30 each. You probably want a dvd shaped fixture to place the case into to make sure it always lines up for a 5 year old, but that will work way better than optical recognition at the expense of having to set up each nfc tag, but that’s something that was going to have to happen anyway for recognizing a physical movie cover.
NFC handlers are out there and easy enough, but getting it to launch Jellyfin into a specific movie is going to be on you to figure out. Here’s a guy that was trying to do something similar with Home Assistant, but doesn’t seem to have any traction on the board. That said, I did a very shallow dive so there might be better news elsewhere: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/jellyfin-integration-and-sending-commands-to-play-movie-to-tv-running-the-app/447937
