It’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!
stronglikedan 2 hours ago [-]
The illustrator probably didn't want to pay for more prominent credit than the standard, which is included at the end of the post.
ajkjk 1 hours ago [-]
... weird way to say that
palmotea 2 hours ago [-]
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.
beachy 2 hours ago [-]
The really sad thing is that the natural instinct for many will be to screenshot the page and upload it with "please create me a home assistant dashboard in this style".
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skyberrys 2 hours ago [-]
The illustrator did beautiful work, it's amazing how much different your program became from the original dashboard to one simple home gui.
gerdesj 2 hours ago [-]
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.
Tellusion 3 hours ago [-]
I love that you hired an illustrator to make this!
zerolunier 2 days ago [-]
where are you based, how much you paid for it ?
srik 35 minutes ago [-]
They posted a link here which has illustrator’s commission site.
nharziro 2 days ago [-]
this is so cool! i love it.
phs318u 3 hours ago [-]
Perhaps “cool” is the wrong word. Did you notice the temperature recorded inside the house? 24degC (26 in the office). A little too warm for my taste.
stavros 2 hours ago [-]
Unless it was taken in the summer, in which case it's really cold.
minasrc 3 hours ago [-]
appreciate you sharing the artist name!
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melody_calling 1 days ago [-]
Really well done, nice work!
cringleycringe 1 hours ago [-]
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zatkin 1 hours ago [-]
Whose attention are you trying to capture by making this post?
cringleycringe 1 hours ago [-]
Yours
dzhiurgis 2 days ago [-]
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 2 hours ago [-]
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%.
dolebirchwood 6 minutes ago [-]
$900 isn't exactly cheap, but it sure as hell isn't 1% money.
I've commissioned art before via the Krita web forum's job section. Lots of bright young artists, many of them students, that do great work for affordable prices to build their portfolios.
You don't really need to be in the 1% to be a patron if you need some art.
krisbolton 2 hours ago [-]
Disposable income and being in the 1% are entirely different things.
onlypassingthru 36 minutes ago [-]
Ever buy any pictures or posters for your wall? Same thing.
kenferry 2 hours ago [-]
How much do you they think they paid? By home improvement standards, might not be out of line at all.
I agree it just feels weird to spend on “software” for home improvement, but sometimes it may make a bigger difference than the hardware!
loloquwowndueo 2 hours ago [-]
You say it like it’s a bad thing?
fragmede 2 hours ago [-]
I'm not sure what that is supposed to convey. This person was able to scrape together a couple bucks to pay someone to draw a picture of their house in a specific way. You've never paid for any art or entertainment? Netflix?
aussiethebob 1 hours ago [-]
And?
AuthAuth 1 hours ago [-]
Its $100 at most. Thats something majority of people can afford.
_virtu 3 hours ago [-]
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.
tiagod 3 hours ago [-]
Pro tip the whole point is that it was made by an illustrator, and that's also the reason it's on the frontpage.
scubbo 2 hours ago [-]
It's _better_ that the illustrations were made by an illustrator, but it still would have been cool and front-page-worthy if that hadn't been the case.
vntok 2 hours ago [-]
Maybe the reason is simply that it's a cool idea?
This is typically the kind of hacking project that is preposterously non-economically-viable for 99% of homelabbers, let alone regular folks. Now, for the first time ever, AI is making it actually palatable for everyone who wants it done to have it done... and certainly much cheaper too at an equivalent quality level.
KZerda 1 hours ago [-]
Commissioning art like this is at most a few hundred dollars. As was posted elsewhere, there are lots of young artists that need to pad out their portfolios, as well as artists in places where the cost of living is significantly cheaper. This isn't a multi-thousand-dollar thing that only the 1% could afford.
orphea 2 hours ago [-]
I'm sorry, I have a hard time understanding you. Correct me if I'm wrong, are you saying that
1. paying an illustrator is non-economically-viable for 99% of homelabbers? and
2. AI would have done it at an equivalent quality level?
hatthew 2 hours ago [-]
Most people don't have lidar phones, and commissioning this art is about the same price as buying a lidar phone.
happyopossum 2 hours ago [-]
> Most people don't have lidar phones
the most popular phones in the US (iPhone pro max and pro) have had lidar cameras for the past 6 models...
hatthew 1 hours ago [-]
Some quick googling suggests that in the US, only 60% of people have iphones, and only 50% of iphones in use are pro or max. I would guess that HN skews towards more recent and higher end phones, but also skews towards android. Maybe saying most people don't have lidar is inaccurate, but I think it's still accurate to say the majority of people don't have lidar.
dwnw 1 hours ago [-]
Most people don't have lidar phones. The statement is still very true, even if you said US only. What are you trying to say?
It’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!
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.
Thank you.
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.
https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1wyyrd6/comm...
You don't really need to be in the 1% to be a patron if you need some art.
I agree it just feels weird to spend on “software” for home improvement, but sometimes it may make a bigger difference than the hardware!
This is typically the kind of hacking project that is preposterously non-economically-viable for 99% of homelabbers, let alone regular folks. Now, for the first time ever, AI is making it actually palatable for everyone who wants it done to have it done... and certainly much cheaper too at an equivalent quality level.
1. paying an illustrator is non-economically-viable for 99% of homelabbers? and
2. AI would have done it at an equivalent quality level?
the most popular phones in the US (iPhone pro max and pro) have had lidar cameras for the past 6 models...