ESP-BOX AIoT Development Framework
Important Note:
We recommend updating the application firmware when you first receive the product to have the new features and bugfix. Click here to access the user guide of the latest release firmware. Click here to visit the older firmware.
The ESP-BOX is a new generation AIoT development platform released by Espressif Systems. The ESP32-S3-BOX and ESP32-S3-BOX-Lite are AIoT development boards that are based on Espressif’s ESP32-S3 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC. They provide a platform for developing the control of home appliances using Voice Assistance + touch and screen controller, sensor, infrared controller, and intelligent Wi-Fi gateway. Development boards come 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 BOX series products such as online and offline voice assistants, voice-enabled devices, human-computer interaction devices, control panels, multi-protocol gateways easily.
| Product Name | Product Figure |
|---|---|
| ESP32-S3-BOX |  |
| ESP32-S3-BOX-Lite |  |
Versions
| ESP-Box | Dependent ESP-IDF | Branch Note | Support State |
|---|---|---|---|
| master | release/v4.4 commit id: 2bdea81b2a |
Latest developing firmware esp-sr version: dev/v2.0 commit id: c873a35 |
New feature develop, compatible with ESP32-S3-BOX and ESP32-S3-BOX-Lite |
| Tag 0.2.1 | release/v4.4 with patch | esp-sr version: close v1.0 commit id: 3ce34fe |
Support ESP32-S3-BOX only |
| Tag 0.1.1 | release/v4.4 with patch | esp-sr version: v0.9.6 commit id: 3ce34fe |
Support ESP32-S3-BOX only |
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 200+ speech commands in Chinese and English languages
- Continuous Identification and Wakeup Interrupt
- Flexible and reusable GUI framework
- End-to-end AIoT dvelopment framwork ESP-RainMaker
- Pmod™ compatible headers support expand peripheral modules
Open-Source Content
Based on Apache 2.0 open source license, you can modify, develop, or distribute the contents freely.
User Guide
- For getting start of BOX serial development boards, please refer to the Getting Started.
- For experiencing voice assistant, please refer to the Voice Assistance Control and Customization.
- For experiencing a more humanized interactive experience, please refer to the Continuous Speech Recognition.
- For defining the speech commands by mobile APP, please refer to the ESP-BOX APP User Guide.
- For product exploded-view and disassembly tutorial, please refer to Disassembly Tutorial.
- For more details of hardware information, please refer to the Hardware Overview.
- For latest version firmware, please refer to the Firmware Update.
Developer Guide
ESP-BOX integrates components commonly used in AIOT development that you can leverage to build your own applications.
Quick Start
- 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 drivers 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. Run command
git clone --recursive https://github.com/espressif/esp-box.gitto download the code of this project and then switch the ESP-IDF version to specified version; - 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 Pmod™ compatible headers and ESP-IDF API reference, to develop drivers for more extended devices.
Contact Us
- If you have any technical issues, please submit issue tickets at GitHub Issues or forum esp32.com for help.
- If you are interested in ESP-BOX project, welcome to the ESP-BOX forum to share with us your ideas.
Contributing Examples
We welcome any open-source software or hardware contribution. If you have any examples you want to share with us, please click the Contributions Guide and commit to the Pull Requests to contribute your code.