Tutorial is far from real life experience...

[littlbee]

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I don’t want to shoot at the pianist, but if voice assistant is such a thing for HA, there is still massive work needed to make this usable and the reality is very far from the simple steps described in this tutorial.

First, installing voice assistant image on the ESP32 Box 3 thru epshome web is broken - you never get to the wifi setup step, except if you try to go back and forward multiple times on the installation wizard until you finally, by some dark magic, get this wifi setup option showing. This is a known problem and broken installation system, HA community and Reddit are full of reports of people experiencing the same.

Then once you adopt your esp box in HA, trying to install it crashes your HA host due to undocumented clear system requirements. Basically a Rpi system cannot compile everything, the Rpi completely crashes during the process (for me it always crashes when it gets to the tensorflow stuff). Again, there are several posts on the web with people experiencing the same - seems a system with a least 8GB RAM is needed to compile. This tutorial should be updated with ways to install an adopted node using another system than HA running on a Rpi (or Odroid). For instance I guess it could be possible to do all the compilation work on a PC but this tutorial should reflect how to do this step by step.

I was really excited to start playing around with my esp32 box 3 but I guess it will collect dust on my shelves until some clearer, realistic documentation or tutorial is produced.

URL

https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/s3_box_voice_assistant/

Version

2024.7.1

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[gusarov]

Absolutely agree on this... installation barely works, the documentation does not match to what ESPHome Web installer shows. I recently re-flashed my device and no longer can join network.

[reslip1]

I also am seeing this issue many months later. It prompts to flash, but does not prompt to configure wifi or a voice assistant. Just always to install

[igorsantos07]

I wonder if the installation issues here could be related to a bug on the installer that I reported back in October?
esphome/esp-web-tools#520 / #35299

But yeah, I agree with all the painpoints reported. A month later with no feedback whatsoever on a couple of issues reported, and it feels like that tutorial was just a proof-of-concept, not tagged as such, which was thrown on the web for people to bite on. The fact the current (sample?) firmware kills all the sensors on the extra dock is another terrible side effect of this POC state. I've just submitted a PR (esphome/esphome-docs#4458) to clarify that on the install page, although the main tutorial is still lacking that as I'm not sure about its structure.