I used SweetHome3D + Gimp to recreate my whole home!

Lots of measuring and downloading textures and models, but I finally have a digital ‘clone’ of my home!

The lights all react to changes in color and brightness, and are clickable. I made the buttons transparent so it looks cleaner.

Thermostat is in the center, if clicked it opens the thermostat options. The background glow of the temperature turns blue when cooling and red when heating (black when idle)

My 3D Printer can be turned on by clicking on it too, plus it shows the current progress if it is running.

I’d love to see other people’s floorplans for ideas, comment with a pic if you have one set up!

  • This is why I quit driving: I won’t want a quarter of my house wasted to store a car.

    Other than that, nice floor plan!

    • 5 hours

      thanks! honestly I don’t even have a use for the storage space, my closet is like 20% full and my attic is empty.

      In Texas having your car covered is critical too

    • Wtf, does it do some primitive form of ray tracing to figure out how the lights bounce around the floor plan? That’s sick!

      Here I am using Apple home like a loser

      • 4 hours

        SweetHome3D does that part.
        You export an image for every light, where its the only light on. Everything is black except where the light shines. Make those black parts transparent in Gimp or PS.

        now when you layer them you have each light’s beams all intersecting and mixing.
        There is a background image where all lights are off that they all stack on top of

        Its far simpler than you might imagine.

        • Simple but genius!

          Do you set the opacity of a given light layer to the brightness of the real light?

          • 3 hours

            yep! the minimum opacity is set to 40% though, otherwise they look off when dim see my code in another comment reply

        • This is very similar to how I did my ghetto manual version of this on a picture elements card. Except I did it in 2D, which I actually find to be cleaner and easier for me to interpret at a glance.

          But I really like the reactivity of your lights in color and brightness. Does sweethome allow you to make plans in 2D?

          • 26 minutes

            Does sweethome allow you to make plans in 2D?

            I think what you’re after isn’t technically 2D vs 3D but ‘Perspective View’ vs ‘Orthographic View’ (but tl;dr: no).

            Perspective view emulates your vision, but orthographic is what you would use for engineering / architecture drawings. Looking top down like this, for instance, in perspective view you can see both the top of the wall and the bottom of the wall (what’s shown), but in orthographic view those would appear as a single line like in architecture drawings.

            All that being said, I don’t think Sweet Home 3D can do orthographic views, though don’t have it in front of me to check.

            • 23 minutes

              Yes! That’s exactly what I meant. I simply do not like the 3D look for these purposes.

          • 4 hours

            my original plan was to make it really bare-bones and minimal LOL

            i just kept going and going and ended up with near photo-realism. I couldn’t help myself. I even put in my 3d printed wall art by exporting it from fusion as a obj LOL

            • I think that’s a pretty common theme for home assistant projects. I’ve been known to take things way too far on several occasions.

              • 2 hours

                it’s a never ending rabbit hole. my goal now is to never touch a light switch.
                already have my office and bathroom turn on via PIR sensors (using ESPHome), gonna buy a ton since they are so cheap

        • 4 hours

          I look forward to the youtube video detailing how to do this :)

  • Yours is so much nicer than mine!! I got this one made for our little studio apartment, but we never really used it so I didn’t bother polishing it up. The temp on the fridge is the apartment temp, and the lights are visible buttons, but I love your invisible buttons and will follow how you did it if I end up doing it again!

    • 3 hours

      looks clean though! I originally planned on doing something more minimal but went overboard

      you could use that empty space in the corner for stats like indoor temp and weather!

  • All I can think of is how violently loud my shit would have to be to disturb the guests over for dinner on the other side of the wall.

    Very cool, not dissing the post, just intrusive thoughts

  • I was just about to start on something like this! Is this the floorplan card? Any tips or links to help with the config?

    • 4 hours

      nope! just a picture elements card!
      nothing fancy, all built-in cards and stuff.

      Here is my card yaml if it helps you!

      • 4 hours

        woah a limewire link! Let me put on my hazmat suit before checking that :)

        • 3 hours

          idk what site to use these days lol. i thought i was using file.io but i guess they got acquired? too long to put in a comment reply, it cuts off :/

          this is the begining, shows the basics of how its set up. One image for white, one image for red (used for colors). lowest opacity is 40%, so that they don’t look off when they are really dim.

          type: picture-elements
          image:
            media_content_id: /local/home/bg5.png
            media_content_type: ""
            metadata:
              navigateIds:
                - {}
                - media_content_type: ""
                  media_content_id: __MANUAL_ENTRY__
          elements:
            - type: conditional
              conditions:
                - condition: state
                  entity: light.livingroom_ceiling
                  state: "on"
              elements:
                - type: image
                  entity: light.livingroom_ceiling
                  image: /local/home/livingroom.png
                  style:
                    left: 50%
                    top: 50%
                    width: 100%
                    pointer-events: none
                  card_mod:
                    style: |
                      :host {
                        {% set mode = state_attr('light.livingroom_ceiling', 'color_mode') %}
                        {% if mode not in ['rgb', 'hs', 'xy'] %}
                          opacity: {{ 0.4 + (state_attr('light.livingroom_ceiling', 'brightness') | float(0) / 425) }};
                        {% else %}
                          opacity: 0;
                        {% endif %}
                      }
                - type: image
                  entity: light.livingroom_ceiling
                  image: /local/home/livingroom-red.png
                  style:
                    left: 50%
                    top: 50%
                    width: 100%
                    pointer-events: none
                  card_mod:
                    style: |
                      :host {
                        {% set mode = state_attr('light.livingroom_ceiling', 'color_mode') %}
                        {% set hs = state_attr('light.livingroom_ceiling', 'hs_color') %}
                        {% if mode in ['rgb', 'hs', 'xy'] %}
                          opacity: {{ 0.4 + (state_attr('light.livingroom_ceiling', 'brightness') | float(0) / 425) }};
                          filter: hue-rotate({{ hs[0] if hs else 0 }}deg) saturate(500%);
                        {% else %}
                          opacity: 0;
                        {% endif %}
                      }
          
  • this is awesome!! though 75 degress is so hot to me lol, I keep my thermostat on 65 and it still is too much sometimes

    • 4 hours

      its set to cool at 78 actually 😆

      74 and I start getting chilly, I think Texas has changed my perception of hot and cold

      • thats a good point I’m in new york coming off a bitter winter so 65 is cozy to me