78/xiaozhi-esp32

An MCP-based chatbot | 一个基于MCP的聊天机器人

Hardware, IoT & roboticsC++#chatbot#esp32#mcp

2.4 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 14, 2026.

About the project

ESP32 firmware that turns a board into a voice AI chatbot: offline wake word, streaming ASR+LLM+TTS, MCP-based device and smart-home control.

Useful for

Build a voice assistant on ESP32-S3 with offline wake word and OLED output
Connect the device to the xiaozhi.me server and use the Qwen realtime model for free
Control GPIO, LEDs and servos through device-side MCP

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

20 stars today.
About 9 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Recent forks include notable developers: @Dev-next-gen (903 followers).

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 29,880
Stars in a day: 20
Forks: 6,938
Issues and pull requests: 2,113
Watchers: 249
Language: C++
License: MIT
Latest release: v2.5.0 · September 10, 2026
Created: August 31, 2024
Last push: September 13, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 13, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #12, +24 stars

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