https://youtu.be/BmDgGre7PXU ^ Video showcasing everything working in realtime --- Hi all, small intro: I've started building my own Smart Home about a year ago, then moved house and was able to put pretty much smart lights and devices everywhere in my house. I absolutely love Home Assistant and I would consider myself quite a gadget freak, especially when it comes to funky software etc. I know there's a lot of hate going around on dodgy Vibecoding, which I fully understand. I used Claude Code for this project as well, which is 100% for my own use. I want to start of by saying I have absolutely zero financial intentions with this, I just love being able to do cool stuff around my house, and Claude Code makes it very easy to do that. I've optimized my entire setup, had Claude think with me about useful automations, see why certain things were costing more power than I imagined, etc. Lately I've been making small funny games for my friends with Claude Code and truly saw how powerful the tool is, so after my wife complained about our Home Assistant dashboard not functioning correctly yesterday I asked Claude to build me a new one. Within 30 minutes I had a dashboard which not only looked ten times better, but worked a hundred times better as well. I went to bed feeling quite satisfied, but I also had a new goal: I wanted to turn my dashboard into a 3D house design, something I had seen before on this Reddit. Claude adviced me to take photos and have them turned into a 'dollhouse setup' by Gemini, since Claude cannot generate pictures. This worked to some extent, but Gemini would always get at least 5 things incorrect per room, be it the layout, the colors, the size, etc. Also, if I wanted to make a tiny change this wasn't possible, I had to redo the entire image because Gemini was stuck in a loop. Added to that, if it somehow would be able to get the perfect room, I only had 1 view, and my dream was to get at least 4 different viewing angles to make it somewhat 'interactive and 360 like'. Claude then said: I'll make a mock up version of the room, which Gemini only has to fill in. Tried this, didn't work. Same errors as above. I then asked if Claude could make the mockup (which was extremely basic) a bit more advanced and if we could use that one. Of course he said, and within 10 minutes I had a full 3D design of my living room. With Gemini I would have eventually been happy with just 1 picture taken from 1 side, there was no way I could get even more than 1 angle correct, let alone a full 360 degree spin around. Claude however had absolutely zero problem with that. I already had Claude connected to my Home Assistant. It found out where all my Home Assistants lights are in my room based on the pictures I uploaded, and if it didn't see where one of my Home Assistant lights was on the picutes it would ask me to clarify. Not even 5 minutes later I not only had a full 3D version of my living room, but also all the light switches were instantly working, from every angle imaginable. Of course there were some minor things, Claude putting the couch too far inside the room, the lights in the bookcase being on the wrong shelf, etc. but with every new prompt I gave Claude he just updated the old version and made a better, new version instantly. He saved everything on my Home Assistant server as well, allowing me to load it onto my tablet to test everything out in realtime. I then proceeded to let Claude generate the whole house, and after about 10 corrective prompts my entire house was ready and fully functioning, all within the dashboard design Claude already made yesterday. I absolutely love it, it looks amazing and works like a charm, and the best thing is: if anything in my house changes or does not work anymore, I just ask Claude to update it and it will work again. This was about 3 hours of vibecoding, I ran into my 5 hour session limit which slowed down the process. I have the $20 paid Claude version, which you don't need to optimize your setup in Home Assistant but you probably do need if you want to build anything like I did. Anyways, I wanted to share and perhaps inspire someone else to make something very awesome! Of course I'll happily answer any questions you have, although the technical side of things I'll first have to ask Claude.... ;) Thanks for reading/watching!   submitted by   /u/JorisDBie   to   r/homeassistant [link]   [comments]