Zircon3D: Creating interactive 3D smart home visualizations

Greetings, Smart Home Enthusiasts!

I’m the creator of Zircon3D, a system designed to bring interactive 3D building visualizations to your smart home. It offers both cloud-based convenience and offline storage for enhanced privacy. You can install it as a Home Assistant Add-on or run it as a standalone application via Docker, making it a flexible addition to your smart home setup.

I’d love to hear your thoughts! Visit https://zircon3d.com to learn more, try it out, and share your feedback. Your insights will help shape the future of Zircon3D!

Thanks, and happy automating! :rocket:

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A Heatmap Example

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Installed as HA addon

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Combine dashboard with 3D visualizations:

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I am currently using the following.

When trying to view those models on a mobile device they are a bit too heavy, to the point of being unusable, not loading and crashing the mobile device.

How does this add-on compare?

The fact is that mobile devices today are actually very capable, for example they can run games with fairly complex graphics.

For building visualizations we don’t need too complex visual effects, the main issue is mobile devices have mush constrained VRAM, which means some certain optimization is needed to make them run.

Last year Zircon3D underwent a serious performance optimization so that it is efficient in resource consuming, for example now it requires 10x less memory to load. As a result, it can run on fairly old mobile devices smoothly, you can try by click this link on your phone or tablet: Zircon3D

However the main issue for Zircon3D is that the input hasn’t been optimized and tested on mobile devices, so it is very hard to use the UI with gestures instead of mouse and keyboard.

So yes zircon3d can run on mobile devices without significant performance issue, but you may find it hard to use, because the input is only designed for mouse / keyboard

Yes tried on my tablet the controls do seem to not work as they should, including moving the model around. Tapping the screen, the model seems to randomly move around.

The heat map does not seem to render as shown in the example image, gives colour borders to rooms but no heat map in middle of floor.

Does it have a function to render a light state by lighting the room in the image?

The heatmap issue is some API compatible issue that causing incorrect blend of transparent objects, I can replicate it with one of my android tablet but not with iphone and ipad, we will further investigate to find a solution to mitigate the problem. Thank you for reporting it.

For the light state, currently we don’t have it, the challenge is the feature is not compatible with the overall color / lighting theme of our rooms, we planned to add a floating card above a light to indicate the state, this feature should be available soon.

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