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I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

soheilpro

Comments (36)

  • ideasphere
    This is the illustrator: https://linktr.ee/owenyeconielIt’s cool they hired an actual person but if I was so happy with their work to write-up a whole article about it, I’d be crediting them in a much more prominent way!
  • skyberrys
    The illustrator did beautiful work, it's amazing how much different your program became from the original dashboard to one simple home gui.
  • anon
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  • palmotea
    1. Hiring a human illustrator is the right thing to do, and I applaud this guy.2. AI kinda ruined this style for me. The first thing I did when I saw it was start searching for AI incongruities which is sad.
  • Tellusion
    I love that you hired an illustrator to make this!
  • gerdesj
    Great job and a cracking write up. The notes on making sure you get layers etc right so you can animate effectively is great advice.Thank you.
  • zerolunier
    where are you based, how much you paid for it ?
  • minasrc
    appreciate you sharing the artist name!
  • melody_calling
    Really well done, nice work!
  • nharziro
    this is so cool! i love it.
  • dzhiurgis
    This is beautiful. Reminds me floor796.I used AI to get it draw it. What worked is giving floor plan I already had and putting some labels on it - brown dining table here, fridge here, etc.What didn't work was giving it bunch of photos and asking it to just figure it out. For things it did figure out - it was nice, but it made way too make mistakes.The entire point of it was to put light switches and heaters on the map so I don't have to fiddle with a number of toggles in a table/list.p.s. I wish I had huge eink display for home assistant dashboards. Some concepts I made and seen online are glorious.
  • Legend2440
    Cool, but if you can afford to hire an illustrator to make a custom dashboard for your lights and thermostat, you're clearly in the 1%.
  • cringleycringe
    I hired an AI to do it faster and cheaper
  • _virtu
    Pro tip you don’t even need an illustrator. While I do encourage hiring humans to do this work you can also use PolyCam with a phone that supports lidar, export it to Claude with Blender and voila.