📢 Service Restored — HA Add-on Restart Required (Cloudflare Outage)

Tami Liu

Hi everyone,

Due to a Cloudflare-related outage earlier today, some users may have experienced 500 server errors when signing in or using Zircon3D.

Everything is now back online.
To fully restore functionality inside Home Assistant, please restart the Zircon3D add-on:

Home Assistant → Settings → Add-ons → Zircon3D Proxy → Restart

Thanks for your patience! If you notice anything unusual, feel free to reach out.

— Zircon3D Team

Tami Liu

We’re excited to share an update designed specifically for business and commercial users who want to bring advanced 3D visualization into their daily operations.

New Business Pricing

$28 USD per month
$280 USD per year (billed yearly)

Our goal is to make professional-grade visualization accessible to small businesses, farmers, commercial facilities, and multi-building environments.

Designed for Real Commercial Workloads

With the updated Business plan, you can:

Create up to 4 projects
Each project supports:
- Unlimited building area
- Unlimited monitored devices
Includes all features from Home Pro
Priority support

Technical caps exist only to protect system stability. In practice, limits are extremely high and suitable for most business scenarios.

Coming Soon: Zircon3D Greenhouse Edition

We’re also actively developing the Zircon3D Greenhouse version, designed for:

Farmers
Growers
Small agricultural businesses
Multi-span greenhouses
Controlled-environment agriculture

This edition focuses on production areas, environmental monitoring, climate layers, heatmaps, and sensor-driven 3D insights — making it a perfect fit for modern smart farming.

If you're a greenhouse operator or planning a future deployment, this will be especially valuable.

Why We Made These Changes

Many early business users told us:

The previous $80/month price felt too high during early adoption
Their buildings and sensor counts exceeded Home Pro limits
They needed a simple “high-capacity” plan without locking features behind new tiers

So we redesigned the plan to remove those barriers and make Zircon3D easier to adopt in real commercial workflows.

Join the Discussion

If you'd like to follow updates on the Business Plan or the upcoming Greenhouse edition:

Join our Facebook community for ongoing discussions
https://www.facebook.com/groups/zircon3d
Or leave your questions and thoughts below — we’d love to hear from you

Thanks for growing with us!
— The Zircon3D Team

Tami Liu

Thanks for the question! Our controls on mobile and tablet still need improvement, and we’re planning to refine the touch interaction experience in future updates.

For now, you can try creating a top-view camera angle, which is much easier to use on mobile/tablet and reduces accidental click-and-drag actions.

Here’s how to create a custom view, please check the video at 5:03: https://youtu.be/tm3IbnAiQzA

Feel free to share more feedback, it really helps us improve the mobile experience!

Tami Liu

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The Importance of 3D Visualization in Smart Home Applications

Smart home technology has revolutionized the way we interact with our living spaces. From controlling lighting and climate to monitoring security, smart devices offer an unprecedented level of convenience and automation. However, as the number of connected devices in a home increases, managing them effectively becomes a challenge. This is where 3D visualization comes into play, offering an intuitive, interactive, and spatially accurate way to monitor and control smart homes.

Why 3D Visualization Matters for Smart Homes

Traditional smart home dashboards often rely on lists, maps, or static 2D floor plans. While functional, these interfaces can be limiting when dealing with complex setups. A 3D visualization-based system enhances user experience in several ways:

Spatial Awareness: A 3D floor plan accurately represents the layout of a home, allowing users to see the exact location of each smart device in relation to furniture, rooms, and walls.
Enhanced Control: Instead of searching through menus, users can interact directly with a 3D-rendered environment, clicking on devices to toggle settings, view status, or make adjustments.
Improved Troubleshooting: When an issue arises, knowing the precise location of a sensor or smart appliance can help diagnose problems faster.
Better Planning and Optimization: When adding new devices, a 3D visualization provides a clear understanding of the space, ensuring optimal placement for smart home efficiency.

Displaying and Controlling Smart Devices on a 3D Floor Plan

A 3D floor plan takes smart home management to the next level by offering a visually intuitive way to interact with devices. Instead of reading through a list of sensors or scrolling through a 2D map, users can simply navigate a realistic digital twin of their home, selecting and adjusting devices in real time.

Lighting & Climate Control: Adjust brightness, color temperature, or thermostat settings by clicking on lights and HVAC units in the 3D space.
Security & Surveillance: View camera feeds, check door locks, and monitor motion sensors within a true-to-scale representation of the home.
Energy Monitoring: Visualize energy consumption per room, floor, or specific appliances in an easy-to-understand format.
Smart Appliances & IoT Devices: Control smart plugs, speakers, and other devices with a simple click or gesture, improving the overall automation experience.
Heatmaps & Environmental Data: With advanced visualization, users can see thermal imaging, humidity levels, and air quality metrics directly on their 3D floor plan.

Zircon3D: The Perfect 3D Visualization System for Smart Homes

Among the available smart home visualization solutions, Zircon3D stands out as a unique and powerful system designed specifically to integrate with smart devices.

What Makes Zircon3D Unique?

Highly Realistic 3D Rendering: Unlike generic dashboards, Zircon3D provides an immersive and dynamic 3D floor plan that reflects real-world layouts with accuracy.
Interactive Smart Device Control: Users can control their smart home by interacting directly with the 3D environment, making management more intuitive than ever.
Heatmaps and Sensor Data Integration: Zircon3D supports visualizing temperature, humidity, air quality, and motion detection as real-time overlays on the floor plan.
Multi-Platform Accessibility: The system is available on web and mobile, ensuring seamless control from any device.
Scalability from Home to Business Use: Whether managing a single-family home or a commercial building, Zircon3D provides the flexibility to scale visualization needs effortlessly.

The Future of Smart Home Interaction

As smart home ecosystems grow more complex, 3D visualization will become an essential tool for homeowners and facility managers. By providing an intuitive, interactive, and visually engaging experience, Zircon3D bridges the gap between technology and usability, making smart home control accessible for everyone.

If you're looking to enhance the way you interact with your smart home, Zircon3D offers the perfect solution—a powerful, scalable, and user-friendly 3D visualization platform designed for the future of smart living.

Want to learn more? Visit https://zircon3d.com/ to explore how 3D visualization can revolutionize your smart home experience!

Tami Liu

Understanding the environment inside your home has never been more important — and more intuitive — than now. With Zircon3D, you can view real-time temperature and humidity heatmaps across your entire home in a fully interactive 3D floorplan. This feature goes far beyond traditional dashboards. It transforms your sensor data into a thermal layer you can see and feel — at a glance.

️ Why a 3D Heatmap is Better Than Numbers

Most smart home systems show environmental data as a list of temperature or humidity values per room. While functional, numbers require mental effort — you have to read, compare, and interpret them in context.

But with a 3D heatmap, your brain does less work and sees more. The moment you look at your Zircon3D model, you’ll instantly spot:

Hot or cold spots
Humid zones (like kitchens, basements, or bathrooms)
Areas with sensor failure or drop-off
Rooms where climate control may be inefficient

Color-coded layers mapped directly onto your 3D space make it obvious what’s happening in your home — no charts or tables required.

🧠 Color is a Language Your Brain Understands

Humans evolved to read visual cues. A splash of red feels hot. Blue feels cold. We don’t need to "translate" a Celsius value when we see the heat right on the walls or floors of a room.

In Zircon3D, each space is shaded based on sensor data pulled in real time from Home Assistant or your supported smart home platform. Whether you're glancing at your bedroom from your phone or exploring your basement from a tablet, the thermal layer gives you a natural, intuitive sense of space and comfort.

️ Built for Home Assistant — and More

Zircon3D integrates seamlessly with Home Assistant via our Zircon3D Proxy add-on, letting you visualize all your temperature and humidity sensors automatically in your existing smart home setup.
https://youtu.be/YMsyuJpP2RA

And we’re not stopping there — Zircon3D is a standalone system as well, with planned support for additional platforms and OEM integrations. Whether you’re a smart home enthusiast or a developer building your own solution, Zircon3D can turn your raw data into an immersive experience.

Use Cases Beyond Just Comfort

Smart HVAC tuning: See where hot or cold zones exist and adjust vents or thermostats accordingly.
Airflow analysis: Identify stagnant or poorly ventilated spaces.
Sensor health: Quickly detect dropped or faulty sensors by the absence of data on the heatmap.
Energy efficiency: Cross-reference the heatmap with insulation zones or external weather data.

Experience It Yourself

Your smart home is more than devices — it's a living, breathing environment. Zircon3D’s real-time heatmap feature helps you see it like never before.

Try it now for FREE and bring your floorplan to life:
https://zircon3d.com

Tami Liu

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