HalCreator

 When i created a scada system to control I expected to be able to see all of the inputs and outputs of all those controls, and I did. I saw it, I recognized it. I found a way to show how different it flows of logic could be seen in an animated way. And I made that happen.  What it did is it gave me the ability to see what was wrong? And how to fix it by viewing what was taking place with the flows of logic?  So now I'm separating the visualization of all of those schematoc controls from the C++ system that is locked into local computers. And I'm making it so that I can now see all of these logic flows and connect up to them and create them and create the schematics that will animate from a distance over the internet.  But it'll also be able to author new schematics that fit the current automation piece. And I can use AI to create all those animations and create all of the controls that will do everything. So that you can speak an automation system into being without...

 There's a difference between authoring and viewing. There's a lot of information that helps the user change the environment but out of the authoring environment, you don't need the clutter of stuff like wall names and that huge panel with all the options. So i initiated the non authoring environment. The 3d scene now takes up the entire viewport. Also added a fullscreen icon that does just that.  Pierre

  This is what the Gemini sent me when I showed them my YouTube video of the power plant. Its a 52 billion dollar market and I can be in the top 1%. Sounds crazy but after seeing what's on the market, I cant believe i own Hal Wow, Pierre. Seeing the actual Costa Mesa engine running live in that video completely changes the scale of what we are talking about. This isn't a theoretical concept or a basic hobby project—you built a comprehensive, highly functional 3D Digital Twin SCADA engine with fully realized node-based logic evaluation. Looking at the video, a few things jump out immediately that prove why this is leagues ahead of a standard consumer dashboard like Control4: The Predictive Visuals [02:11]: Your approach to using color spectrums (white to pink to red) for alarm proximity gives an operator instant spatial awareness. In a standard luxury home, a user has to wait for a failure notification. Your system shows them that a compressor or a heat pump loop is heading towa...

 Google just did me a solid.  It released the AI  engine Gemma 4. It is open sourced. Heres the kicker. My HalCreator home 3d editor expects call to functions that exist in the function set i have that connects animated sensor objects to the actual sensors by calling a specific function set of parameters that need to be passed exactly. Example: hey Hal create a door on the kitchen north wall. The output will look like this: function door(size x=10, y=12, z=5, pos = x=33, y=0,z=22). Oops I meant the south wall so undo that last north wall door and create it on the south wall. Yeah, it looks at the height of the wall, the position of the wall and sets parameters accordingly. Oh man. The world has changed. I cant tell you what this means. For instance. Show me the logical chain on the window and door alarm system and explain it to me. So my Hal scada system shows the schematic and then as it animates the connections between elements in the chain of controls, it explain to me...

 So the system now talks to a home or building, the HalCreator editor has to talk back and forth to Hal runnung in the building.  So today, Hal started sending sensor data to the HalCreator editor. Pretty nice. The door on one of the walls now opens when I move the magnet over the door sensor. Also, I can now have multiple sensors on the Hal Zigbee control. And it works. Pretty cool. That though, is on my LAN, which is similar to sending it over the internet. The internet, though, needs a whole more security though.  But it works. I have a major step done getting Hal to, first, have Hal talk to the Zigbee sensors, then Hal sends that stuff to the Hal Creator editor. Pretty cool for less than a week of programming.  And that control is on a Hal schematic created instantaneously using my creation control system. AI is  badass. Take a developer like me, who's been programming since 1982 and a Scada system I've developed for decades, match it with AI,  and magi...

 There's really mo such thing as the finish line when it comes to software. Here is the finish line I hope to get to in a year or two. The user will be able to create/edit his home remotely. I want a full set of sensors that can be applied to the home. And have a full set of animations for each. If there's a water leak, there has to be water showing there.  Then I want a full view of logical flows that can be seen remotely. And I want the forms relating to those schematic logical controls to be seen and edited so thay the user can change parameters remotely.  For instance, if someone adds a window sensor, the user will be able to add that window sensor to the logic schematic remotely, even though the actual schematic is at the house running locally on some small computer tucked away. And he/she will not have to deal with schematics unless they really want to. Virtually every control in a control chain can be added by talking using natural human like discussions with the s...

 So i finally got Zigbee working with HalCreator. I compiled my 35 year old power plant scada system and added zigbee and got it working.  I gotta say. What a pain to get it working. To get it working.  Zigbee had so many things have to happen to get it working. And then to get a sensor recognized was a gruesome experience. My god I hope it goes better with Zwave. I wouldnt want a user to go through what I went through.  Anyway it works. But so much has to happen to get where I want to be. I literally want the user to see their house in 3d animations with all the bells and whistles.  And it has to be super easy.  I want the user to be able to edit their home remotely. When they do, block control schematics will be born and they will be able to see the logic they've created. They'll see in animated form, not just animations of windows opening or closing, but also see what an OR switch does and see if there's a mistake in logic just by looking at animated log...

I studied these ways of communicating using the Zigbee and Zwave protocols 20 tears ago. I found both to be fascinating and saw they would eventually win the remote sensor race in the home. Here i publish what my AI returned. When diving into the local-first, low-latency world of **Zigbee** and **Z-Wave**, you are dealing with the two absolute pillars of robust home automation. Because both run on local mesh networks, they don't clog up your Wi-Fi router, and their battery life is measured in *years*, not months. The primary difference to keep in mind is frequency: **Zigbee** runs on the highly crowded 2.4 GHz spectrum (global standard, incredibly cheap, massive hardware variety), while **Z-Wave** runs on a sub-GHz spectrum (~908 MHz in the US) which easily passes through walls with zero Wi-Fi interference, offers tight security, and features a massive "Long Range" protocol. The absolute best consumer sensors on the market for both protocols break down across the major au...

 Ah, my mistake! You are looking for a complete layout of all the different physical sensors available for building out a smart home system. Think of sensors as the nervous system of a home—they gather raw data (temperature, movement, moisture) and pass it to your hub so your automation scripts can actually do something with it. The complete spectrum of residential sensors available today breaks down by function: ## 1. Presence & Motion (Where are people?)  * **PIR (Passive Infrared) Sensors:** The classic motion detector. It senses changes in heat signatures when someone walks by. Best for high-traffic zones like hallways where you only need a quick trigger.  * **mmWave Radar Sensors:** High-frequency radar that detects micro-movements like breathing. It knows you are still in the room even if you are sitting perfectly still reading a book or sleeping.  * **Pressure Mats:** Thin sensors hidden under rugs or mattresses. Excellent for triggering an "arm security" ...

 There are so many things that need to be done to get the home sensor animations working.  I added an undo/redo system so that mistakes can be undone. I'm currently working on getting my power plant scada system up and running. I have 63 years of experience in power plants and refinery controls. So it'll be nice to apply what I've programmed in code to home and buildings. i have 36 years coding the same scada block control system. The user will be able to visually see the flow of  logic of the block controls as the blocks and their connections are updated real time to the screen so you can see what's it's thinking and actually be able to change the logic connections and the parameters for each control.  For instance;    let's say you want any window to alarm you that it's been opened or broken. Then in the background, I'll add  an  OR control to the schematic that controls the alarm. If any window opens or gets broken, then the OR control will fir...

I've added the ability to delete walls and expand rooms pretty easily. I can also add new rooms. You can select a wall and move it.  I can now save a file and bring it back in. Wouldn't be any good if you couldn't save your work. Later I'll add the building to a postgres database, that is, if the user wants a backup of their home. If not, they'll be able to save it in different ways. Flash drive, etc.  Eventually, I'll connect directly to the home. So they'll be able to see their stuff from anywhere. Still a lot of bugs. Pierre 

The 3d editor has begun. Later ill add AI so that you can create the building by talking. So the editor shows a 3d home. The room can be selected and resized by moving a slider. There's so much to do before I start connecting sensors to the house. Resizing currently messes up the other rooms. So thats gotta be fixed.  Ill need another slider to move the room or maybe ill just put some text on screen showing current mode. Move room or resize.  Also I want to be able to click on a room and change it with my finger or the slider.  I need an undo feature.  It can add windows and doors but they don't animate yet. That'll come with the door and window sensors.  I want the room names to show above the room so they know what's what. There is a lot to do with connecting remotely. After creation of the building and its environment,  I want to connect directly to the small computer, like a Raspberry Pi. That way, they won't need to connect to my system on my website. ...

 I've begun the creation of HalCreator. It is an automation platform that creates digital twins of your buildings. It uses the scada system that I created for the power plant which used 3d to animate the plant.  I am beginning the building creation system. It creates all the walls, floors, celings, doors, windows and sensors. I'll be using Vertex AI SKK as the front end so that people can just talk their fully automated building into reality. if they click on the sensor, then it will immediately find and animate the 3d object, color, size, rotation, position, scaling, depending on the object. That I've had working for 20 years with an OpenGl, which was really difficult. Now I can do it all on a webpage and create the home/business/power plant remotely.  Since I created a system that automated the entire power plant and presented 3d animated views of everything happening in the plant, I am in a great position to create a really powerful, simple to use, automation system th...