When I started looking at a Smart Home controller for my new house, something that struck me as being quite 'cool' (if you're a geek like me) was a 3D floorplan with interactive icons. When I settled on Home Assistant, there were several people showing implementations with simulated lights turning on and off and switching between day and night. So, I decided to create an interactive floorplan for my home, but I also wanted to simulate the amount of daylight in the image and add other elements, like motion sensors, and coloured lights, etc. Below is the Ground floor as a work in progress. A few basic pre-requisites that you'll need (all of which have plenty of tutorials on how to set them up): Home Assistant up and running Home Assistant Community Store (HACS) installed in Home Assistant Config Template Card frontend add-on through HACS to enable JavaScript and CSS support A means to upload image files to Home Assistant (I use the Samba Share Add-on) Some smart lightbu
Our 'Grand Designs' project involved gutting our 4 bedroom house and creating a 5 bedroom home, but it is going to be a smart home. This blog is about my journey to creating a smart home for the 'ordinary' person, not the die-hard tech nerd (although I am one myself)