Li BoESP-BOX AIoT Development Framework
Important Note: We recommend updating the ESP32-S3-BOX firmware when you first receive the product to have the latest features and bugfix.
The ESP-BOX is a new generation AIoT development platform released by Espressif Systems. The ESP32-S3-BOX is an AIoT development board that is based on Espressif’s ESP32-S3 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC. The ESP32-S3-BOX provides a platform for developing the control of home appliances using Voice Assistance + touch screen controller, sensor, infrared controller, and intelligent Wi-Fi gateway. The ESP32-S3-BOX comes with pre-built firmware that supports offline voice interaction, with the SDKs and examples provided by Espressif, you will be able to develop a wide variety of AIoT applications based on the ESP32-S3-BOX such as online and offline voice assistants, voice-enabled devices, HMI touch-screen devices, control panels, multi-protocol gateways easily.
ESP-BOX features:
- Supports far-field voice interaction with 2 mics
- Offline voice wake-up with high wake-up rate
- Offline speech commands recognition in Chinese and English languages with high recognition rate
- Reconfigurable voice commands in Chinese and English languages
- Flexible and reusable GUI framework
- End-to-end IoT development framework ESP-RainMaker
- Pmod™ compatible headers supports expand peripheral modules
ESP-BOX Open-Source Content Include:
Based on Apache 2.0 open source license, you can modify, develop, or distribute the contents freely.
User Guide
- For getting start of ESP32-S3-BOX, Please to the Getting Started
- For voice control and customization，Please refer to the Voice Assistance Control and Customization
- For control the device by graphical user interface, Please refer to the GUI Guide
- For more detils of ESP32-S3-BOX hardware，Please refer to ESP-BOX hardware overview
- For latest version firmware，Please refer to the ESP32-S3-BOX firmware update
Developer Guide
- Step 1. ESP-IDF (Espressif IoT Development Framework) is required to build the application. If this is your first time using the ESP-IDF, please refer to ESP-IDF development guide to understand the open-source drive and components provided by Espressif.
- Step 2. Next, setting up development environment. Please refer to ESP-IDF(release/v4.4) Installation Step by Step.
- Step 3. Additionally, apply the patch files on current ESP-IDF, please refer Patch for ESP-IDF for details.
- Step 4. Take a small step，you can build and flash a simple example.
- Step 5. Moving further，please read ESP-BOX technical architecture to understand the technical details.
- Step 6. Going deeper，please read ESP Speech Recognition Application Guide, ESP RainMaker Programming Guide, LVGL GUI Quick overview.
- Step 7. For extended function, please read ESP-BOX Pmod™ compatible headers and ESP-IDF API reference，to develop drivers for more extended devices.
Contact Us
- Should you have any technical issues, please submit a issue ticket at GitHub Issues or forum esp32.com for help.
- If you are interested with ESP-BOX project，welcome to the ESP-BOX forum to share with us your idea.
- We welcome any open-source software or hardware contribution. Please commit to the Pull Requests to contrinute your code.