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Does it also work with the lite version of ESP box?



It does for everything but the touch display because it doesn't have one[0]. We don't support the three buttons at the bottom but I have two ESP BOX Lites and we should be able to make it happen pretty easily.

We haven't been focused on the ESP BOX Lite because it seems kind of limited. However, Espressif hasn't sold many of these things since release and judging from people looking for stock, etc in this thread I think that's about to change.

Espressif has incredible manufacturing capacity and our hope is they will ramp up manufacture of the ESP BOX family now because (to my knowledge) Willow is the first project that actually makes meaningful use of them.

The only gaiting component of the ESP BOX family that I can see is the plastic enclosure. I'm sure Espressif can figure out how to crank these things out ;).

[0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow/wiki/Hardware


How is a Lite limited? My understanding is it's an ESP Box without touch/stand, but otherwise the same. Not quite sure why the Box retails for 28% more

https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32-S3-BOX_video


It should. I personally haven't tested it as I don't own the lite version, but everything should work besides touch. It complains about not being able to initialize touch during boot, but that's not fatal. Shouldn't be too hard to ifdef away that error.




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