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I have two kids (dragon!) in my home. With a lot of fun, I have a lot of stress too. One particular area of concern is their screen time.  In many cases I found my kids goes near to the TV and with the excessive joy they have, they don’t know they are very close to it.  As a modern day’s parent, I must tackle this issue and I did that using home assistant. Objective: To pause the TV playback while someone is near to the TV. Resume the playback while no-one is too close to the TV. This case my kids shall not watch the TV while they are near to it. So once they are near, it will pause the playback and will resume while they are a bit far from the TV. List of tools I used  NODE MCU  ESP8266 ( Link )   Node MCU Development Kit V3 ( Link )   Ultrasonic Sensor (HC-SR04) ( Link )   BroadLink RM Pro ( Link )   Home Assistant ( Link )   ESP home ( Link )   Process Followed:   Use ESP8266 on NodeMCU board with power adapter   Use ESP Hom...