@philrw nice! Yeah I was about to do an NFC thing but what stopped me was remembering my 3 year old can't read yet and so I'd have to somehow attach an image to each card. And I was like, if I'm gonna have to print something, I don't want to also have to cut every one. So here we are

@jensliebau It's slightly messier than that because I also have a service that downloads the videos off of YouTube and dumps them into Jellyfin

@jensliebau ya!
For the scanner, I'm using one of these with an ESP-32 attached:

https://shop.m5stack.com/products/atomic-barcode-qr-code-scanner-2-base

And then I have Home Assistant + Jellyfin running on a server. When I scan the QR code, essentially my server looks up the jellyfin media ID and tells home assistant to play it on my TV

Made an "analog" YouTube book for my kid so she can choose what she wants (from pre-approved list) without being exposed to a thumbnail hellscape. Also automatically cuts her off after x scans