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Posted by soheilpro 1 day ago

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard(antonfrolov.substack.com)
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dzhiurgis 1 day 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 1 hour 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%.
sho_hn 1 hour ago||
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 1 hour ago|||
Disposable income and being in the 1% are entirely different things.
kenferry 1 hour 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!

AuthAuth 32 minutes ago|||
Its $100 at most. Thats something majority of people can afford.
loloquwowndueo 1 hour ago|||
You say it like it’s a bad thing?
fragmede 1 hour 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 34 minutes ago||
And?
_virtu 2 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.
arjie 49 seconds ago||
Damn that is a good tip. Thanks, dude.
tiagod 2 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 1 hour 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 1 hour 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 38 minutes 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 1 hour 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 1 hour ago||
Most people don't have lidar phones, and commissioning this art is about the same price as buying a lidar phone.
happyopossum 1 hour 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 17 minutes 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 40 minutes 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?