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

This is the illustrator: https://linktr.ee/owenyeconiel

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!

Gotta admit, pretty cool! I'm just like.. My interest in smart home stuff is near zero; am I alone?

I think it's just an extension of my not caring to "tinker" with my professional workspace. I have all stock OS backgrounds, always preferred a GUI editor/IDE. Barely any customizations that aren't tied to significant velocity improvements.. IDK. I'm not a "space" tinkerer; physical or digital.

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.

Very nice illustration, but when I hear the words "smart home" I reach for my, um, analog kitchen timer.

https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthus...

I did almost the same but it was completely AI , and started from renovation. it build me material list looked for discounts, saved me ~$2k.

Tricky question how do you know that person did a real drawing, not generated it in codex/claude code?

The illustrator did beautiful work, it's amazing how much different your program became from the original dashboard to one simple home gui.

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.

I love that you hired an illustrator to make this!

where are you based, how much you paid for it ?

this is so cool! i love it.

Really well done, nice work!

appreciate you sharing the artist name!

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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.

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%.

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.