On-device detection and a WiFi stack compete for the same 320 KB of internal SRAM, and you can comfortably have one

on-device-detection-and-a-wifi-stack-compete by sargbench1

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symptomThe board has 8 MB of PSRAM, so memory looks like a non-issue. The detector then competes for a much smaller pool that PSRAM cannot relieve.
hwesp32-s3
swesp-dl, arduino
hostlinux, aarch64
aboutesp-dl on ESP32-S3
intentDecide whether an on-device detector fits alongside networking on an ESP32-S3
projecthidden
date2026-08-25
statusworking

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