Mostly sun, but the hail is brutal too (but not often)

Everyone’s car here has the most sun faded paint filled with cracks and chips. Cars younger than mine look 50 years old

Both, but hail can kill a car in minutes. The sun only really hurts the tires and interior parts like dashboards. Older cars clear coat would get cooked off too, but most new cars don’t even clear coats.

Simple but genius!

Do you set the opacity of a given light layer to the brightness of the real light?

This is very similar to how I did my ghetto manual version of this on a picture elements card. Except I did it in 2D, which I actually find to be cleaner and easier for me to interpret at a glance.

But I really like the reactivity of your lights in color and brightness. Does sweethome allow you to make plans in 2D?

I look forward to the youtube video detailing how to do this :)

idk what site to use these days lol. i thought i was using file.io but i guess they got acquired? too long to put in a comment reply, it cuts off :/

this is the begining, shows the basics of how its set up. One image for white, one image for red (used for colors). lowest opacity is 40%, so that they don’t look off when they are really dim.

type: picture-elements
image:
  media_content_id: /local/home/bg5.png
  media_content_type: ""
  metadata:
    navigateIds:
      - {}
      - media_content_type: ""
        media_content_id: __MANUAL_ENTRY__
elements:
  - type: conditional
    conditions:
      - condition: state
        entity: light.livingroom_ceiling
        state: "on"
    elements:
      - type: image
        entity: light.livingroom_ceiling
        image: /local/home/livingroom.png
        style:
          left: 50%
          top: 50%
          width: 100%
          pointer-events: none
        card_mod:
          style: |
            :host {
              {% set mode = state_attr('light.livingroom_ceiling', 'color_mode') %}
              {% if mode not in ['rgb', 'hs', 'xy'] %}
                opacity: {{ 0.4 + (state_attr('light.livingroom_ceiling', 'brightness') | float(0) / 425) }};
              {% else %}
                opacity: 0;
              {% endif %}
            }
      - type: image
        entity: light.livingroom_ceiling
        image: /local/home/livingroom-red.png
        style:
          left: 50%
          top: 50%
          width: 100%
          pointer-events: none
        card_mod:
          style: |
            :host {
              {% set mode = state_attr('light.livingroom_ceiling', 'color_mode') %}
              {% set hs = state_attr('light.livingroom_ceiling', 'hs_color') %}
              {% if mode in ['rgb', 'hs', 'xy'] %}
                opacity: {{ 0.4 + (state_attr('light.livingroom_ceiling', 'brightness') | float(0) / 425) }};
                filter: hue-rotate({{ hs[0] if hs else 0 }}deg) saturate(500%);
              {% else %}
                opacity: 0;
              {% endif %}
            }