Yes, thats the difference indeed!
Hello,
i read that the S3 Box has BT integrated. Is this BT still available to controll via Home Assistant? Because now i had a S3-Box-Lite but the Speakers are really terrible. If we can use the BT i would link the Audio from the S3 to the external Speaker and would only use the MIC inside the S3-Box-3.
Is this possilbe?
Has anyone had any luck getting the IR transmitter / reciever to work?
I think that requires the I2C bus which, at the moment, has conflicts with sound (mic & speaker).
But I’m curious as to what use case you would have for it @nisse1.
@tkzger from I²S Audio Speaker — ESPHome
Warning
Audio and voice components consume a significant amount of resources (RAM, CPU) on the device.
Crashes are likely to occur if you include too many additional components in your device’s configuration. In particular, Bluetooth/BLE components are known to cause issues when used in combination with Voice Assistant and/or other audio components.
ah okay i didnt know this, but the actual bad speakers arent a good solutions too. like that it will never replace a alexa or google speaker assistant.
Agree. Speaker performance is the weakest point of this box.
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found this. really nice project
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At the beginning of December, I tried to get audio feedback from my Box 3. It would play one sound after wake work detection and another sound after I gave the command, but before processing the command. That way I would not need to be looking at the Box 3 to know if it detected my wake word and I would not need to look at the Box 3 to know it was no longer listening to me. It mostly works except the sound after wake work detection plays at the wrong time. Both sounds play after I give the command.
I wrote ESP32-S3-Box-3 voice assistant: sound is delayed when playing sound during wake word trigger · Issue #5207 · esphome/issues · GitHub to track the issue. If you are interested in this functionality, check out the details in the issue and add a comment. In the issue description is a link to all of the YAML files.
Very nice, unfortunately you can only order these in quantities of 5. Anyone in Netherlands who would want to jointly order?
@m4v3r1ck if you replace this in your yaml, that should give you a good 0-100% range for your battery
- platform: copy
source_id: battery_voltage
name: "Battery level"
unit_of_measurement: "%"
accuracy_decimals: 1
device_class: "battery"
entity_category: "diagnostic"
filters:
- lambda: return (x - 3.1) / (4.14 - 3.1) * 100;
- clamp:
min_value: 0
max_value: 100
ignore_out_of_range: true
I have changed the - lambda line.
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Thanks! Apologies for my late reply.
Performing a new drain & load sequence for the battery.
Keep you posted. 
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Updated values for the new code:
The battery gets drained quite fast tbh.
Anybody else having similar numbers?
Would like to know - curiosity - what the total power draw for the specific components of the BOX3 are.
Will do another test - for the sake of science 
- without any presents detections / voice assists.
Ya, right after Mic performance, processing power and ya well usability.
I find my, rather old and degraded, battery lasts about 20-24 hours. But that is with radar auto muting turned on so the backlight and mic processing are off when I’m not around.
Hello!
For those with the ESP32-S3-BOX-3 and are using wakeword with HAOS running RPi4, is your HAOS CPU elevated or does the ESP32-S3-BOX-3 take the brunt of for the wakeword?
I notice with happens with the atom5 echo but figure because that cant really process much so im hoping its not the case with the ESP32-S3-BOX-3
thanks
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For the all ESP based Voice Assistants the wake word detection is done on the server (HA), not the device. It’s currently only the RPi based Satellites that do in-device wake word detection.
So to answer your question, the result will be the same.
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Hi,
Now, after the help of this community almost everything is working perfectly (voice assistant, radar, temp sensors etc.). I have only one question, in the box there is a separated sensor (small square with 4 pins). Is this some kind of temp sensor or something else?
Thank you
L:
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You have the temp and the voice correctly working at the same time ?
I wonder If you guys can help me?
After trying for ages to get hold of a box 3, I’ve finally got 2. 
I’ve installed the firmware via ESP32-S3-BOX voice assistant - Home Assistant (Box 3).
All works well and as It should, but then I wanted too add the code in this thread to make use of the radar etc and this is where I have problems.
If I try to look at the logs then I get this…
INFO ESPHome 2023.12.9
INFO Reading configuration /config/esphome/esp32-s3-box-3-5aa928.yaml…
INFO Updating https://github.com/esphome/esphome.git@pull/5230/head
WARNING GPIO0 is a strapping PIN and should only be used for I/O with care.
Attaching external pullup/down resistors to strapping pins can cause unexpected failures.
See Frequently Asked Questions — ESPHome
INFO Starting log output from 192.168.1.16 using esphome API
INFO Successfully connected to esp32-s3-box-3-5aa928 @ 192.168.1.16 in 0.658s
WARNING esp32-s3-box-3-5aa928 @ 192.168.1.16: Connection error occurred: esp32-s3-box-3-5aa928 @ 192.168.1.16: The connection dropped immediately after encrypted hello; Try enabling encryption on the device or turning off encryption on the client (ESPHome Logs 2023.12.9).
WARNING Can’t connect to ESPHome API for esp32-s3-box-3-5aa928 @ 192.168.1.16: Error while finishing connection: Finishing connection cancelled due to fatal exception: esp32-s3-box-3-5aa928 @ 192.168.1.16: The connection dropped immediately after encrypted hello; Try enabling encryption on the device or turning off encryption on the client (ESPHome Logs 2023.12.9). (HandshakeAPIError)
INFO Trying to connect to esp32-s3-box-3-5aa928 @ 192.168.1.16 in the background
INFO Successfully connected to esp32-s3-box-3-5aa928 @ 192.168.1.16 in 0.433s
WARNING esp32-s3-box-3-5aa928 @ 192.168.1.16: Connection error occurred: esp32-s3-box-3-5aa928 @ 192.168.1.16: The connection dropped immediately after encrypted hello; Try enabling encryption on the device or turning off encryption on the client (ESPHome Logs 2023.12.9).
If I try to Install the updated yaml, then I get this…
INFO ESPHome 2023.12.9
INFO Reading configuration /config/esphome/esp32-s3-box-3-5aa928.yaml…
INFO Updating https://github.com/esphome/esphome.git@pull/5230/head
WARNING GPIO0 is a strapping PIN and should only be used for I/O with care.
Attaching external pullup/down resistors to strapping pins can cause unexpected failures.
See Frequently Asked Questions — ESPHome
INFO Generating C++ source…
ERROR Could not find auto generated code begin in file, either delete the main sketch file or insert the comment again.
Any clues or pointers very welcome.