[BUG] - OpenAI - Error when using Ollama with no API Key about mealie

[michael-genson]

The Ollama docs explicitly specify to supply an API key even though it's unused: https://ollama.com/blog/openai-compatibility

Additionally, I don't think it makes sense to require the base URL when most users are going to want to use OpenAI out of the box. It also wouldn't help anyway since an API key is still required (even if it doesn't get used)

[Greirson]

Ah thanks @michael-genson, I very much missed the "# required, but unused" for the Python library

[Greirson]

My 2¢, the OpenAI feature should require OPENAI_BASE_URL and OPENAI_MODEL, and throw an error in /admin/site-settings if ^.*openai.*$ is in OPENAI_BASE_URL and OPENAI_API_KEY is blank

[Greirson]

For anyone looking here for troubleshooting in the future, your env variables for ollama should include:

OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://ollama_url/v1
OPENAI_API_KEY=literallyanything
OPENAI_MODEL=llama3:latest # or whatever model, I'm using phi3:latest

[boc-the-git]

Let us know how performance goes too please @Greirson, once you've used it a bit. Either here or on discord 😊