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ESP-EYE Getting Started Guide

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What You Need

  • 1 × ESP-EYE V2.0 board
  • 1 × Micro USB cable
  • 1 × PC loaded with Windows, Linux or Mac OS

Overview

ESP-EYE is an ESP32-based development board that integrates a digital microphone, 8 MB PSRAM and 4 MB flash, as well as provides an external 2-million-pixel camera, which makes the board very suitable for applications in the fields of face detection, face recognition, and speech recognition. Besides, the board can also support image transmission over Wi-Fi and debugging using the Micro USB port, which enables the users' development of advanced AI solutions.

Hardware Preparation

The list and figure below describe the key components, interfaces, and controls of the ESP-EYE development board:

ESP-EYE image

  • 3D_PIFA Antenna

    A 3D PIFA antenna. Users can choose the R14 resistor to select external IPEX antenna or choose the R15 resistor to select the 3D antenna.

  • IPEX Connector

    Used for connecting external IPEX antenna. Users can choose the R14 resistor to select external IPEX antenna or choose the R15 resistor to select the 3D antenna.

  • ESP32 Chip

    A 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo chip

  • Crystal Oscillator

    Provides an external clock for ESP32.

  • Flash & PSRAM

    Provides memory to store applications.

  • CP2102 USB-to-UART Chip

    Converts the USB signals to UART signals.

  • USB Port

    Provides the power supply to the whole system.

  • LDO Power Supply

    Provides the required power supplies to the ESP32 chip, camera and LED indicators.

  • Side Tactile Button

    A function key

  • Top Tactile Button

    Reset/Boot button. We recommend that you do not configure this button for other uses.

  • LED Indicators

    The board has a red indicator and a white indicator. Different combinations of red and white indicators reflect the different status of the board, such as waking up, networking, face detection, face recognition, face enrollment, and face recognition...

  • Camera

    An external 2-million-pixel camera module for face detection, face recognition and Face ID enrollment

  • Camera Connector

    Used to connect the external camera.

  • MIC

    A digital microphone for voice control functions

  • SPI Port

    A reserved port for data transmission

Software Development

ESP-EYE supports firmware downloading with a PC loaded with Linux, MacOs or Windows operating systems. For now, users must set up toolchain in the development environment before starting the software development.

Preparation

  • Go through Get Started to set up toolchain in your PC;
  • Connect ESP-EYE to your PC with a Micro USB cable;
  • Launch your development environment tool, such as Terminal (Linux/MacOS) or MinGW (Windows).

Get ESP-WHO

To obtain a local copy: open your Terminal (such as Terminal in a Linux environment), navigate to the directory you want to put ESP-WHO, and clone the repository using git clone command:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/espressif/esp-who.git

ESP-WHO will be downloaded into an automatically generated folder named esp-who.

Do not miss the --recursive option. If you have already cloned ESP-WHO without this option, please run another command to get all the submodules: git submodule update --init --recursive

Set UP Path to ESP-WHO

Please follow the instruction described in Setup Path to ESP-IDF to configure the IDF_PATH variable to esp-who/esp-idf.

Download Firmware

This section describes the steps to download firmware to ESP-EYE (taking the Linux operating system as an example):

  • Power up ESP-EYE by connecting it to your PC with a USB cable.
  • Run ls /dev/ttyUSB* in your Terminal to check if the board has connected itself to your PC successfully. You will see a newly generated item named something like /dev/ttyUSB0 in your list after running the command if the connection is successful.
  • Navigate to an example directory, such as cd esp-who/examples/single_chip/recognition_solution.
  • Run make defconfig to complete default configuration.
  • Run make menuconfig, and go to Serial flasher config -> Default serial port to configure the device name to the item you saw in the second step, something like /dev/ttyUSB0. Then, save and exit.
  • Run make flash to download firmware.

Check Logs

This section describes the steps to check logs with your Terminal (taking the Linux operating system as an example).

  • Launch your Terminal;
  • Run make monitor.

Note: The ESP-EYE development board will reboot after this operation.

Key Process

The figure below describes the workflow of ESP-EYE:

esp-eye-workflow

1. Voice Wake-up

ESP-EYE awaits to be woken up after powering up (Red LED on and white LED off). The board wakes up after recognizing the wake-up command "Hi Lexin", then awaits for networking (Red LED flashing and white LED off). Now, users can initiate the networking.

2. Networking

Users can connect their PCs or mobile phones to ESP-EYE's Wi-Fi with the following information (by default):

  • Username: esp-eye-xxxx (xxxx indicates the board's MAC address)
  • Password: no needed

Alternatively, users can also follow the steps below to configure the username and password of the board's Wi-Fi:

  • Launch your Terminal;

  • Run make menuconfig, and complete the configuration as instructed in the figure below:

    wifi connection

Note: You will have to restart from the step of downloading firmware after you have reconfigured the Wi-Fi username and password.

3. Face Detection

ESP-EYE starts the face detection after networking. Users can see the real-time image, captured by the board, with their browser (address: 192.168.4.1/face_stream). During this, the red LED is off and the white LED is on.

4. Face Recognition

After detecting a face, ESP-EYE will start the face recognition if there are any enrolled Face IDs stored in the board:

  • When there is a match: the red LED on the board flashes once, and the browser displays HELLO ID XXX.
  • When there isn't any match: the board shows no signs, and the browser displays WHO?”.

If there isn't any enrolled Face ID, the board continues face detecting. Therefore, please at least enroll one Face ID if you want to start the face recognition.

5. Add/delete a Face ID

The users can add/delete a Face ID after the network is successfully established.

5.1 Add a Face ID

Enroll a Face ID

  • Single-click the Side Tactile Button to enroll a new Face ID. At this moment, the red LED is on, and the browser displays START ENROLLING;
  • Stand in front of the camera, and the face sampling starts automatically. The red LED flashes whenever the board gets a face sample, and the browser displays the numerical order of the current face sample, such as THE 1st SAMPLE. By default, the board has to take three samples to add one Face ID. Users can configure the number of samples needed for one Face ID. (Please adjust your position/distance from the camera and try again if you don't see the red LED flashing for a long time).
  • After the Face ID enrollment, the red LED on the board is off and the browser displays ENROLLED FACE ID XXX;
  • The board enters Face Detection after the Face ID enrollment.

Currently, ESP-EYE can enroll up to 10 Face IDs. Please note that the maximum number of enrolled Face IDs can be configured based on how the users allocate the flash memory. However, we recommend a number that is no greater than 30.

5.2 Delete a Face ID
  • Double-click the Side Tactile Button to delete an existing Face ID;
  • After that, the board deletes the earliest record of all the existing enrolled Face ID. The white LED on the board flashes, and the browser displays: XXX ID(S) LEFT.

Troubleshooting

The board returns to the status of "waiting to be woken up" when there are any network anomalies, such as "network disconnection" and "network timeout".