more issues with Aider and Azure about aider

[paul-gauthier]

There are some docs which might be helpful:

https://aider.chat/docs/llms.html#azure

https://aider.chat/docs/llms.html#model-warnings

https://aider.chat/docs/llms.html#using-a-env-file

[philliplyle]

Thanks Paul. Yes, I've reviewed those items, and did manage to get the alternative deployment name working in conjunction with the environmental variables. It does display a warning but proceeds regardless.

However, it doesnt address why we were previously able to execute against Azure without the environmental variables. If OPENAI_API_TYPE is set to "azure" then why do we still have to set those variables separately?

Just pointing out that it was working without them before.

[paul-gauthier]

Aider recently added support for directly connecting to many LLM providers via the litellm package. This change required a shift to environment variables. I would recommend following the new docs about how to connect with Azure, but you're welcome to try and make it work a different way if you prefer.

[philliplyle]

Thanks for confirming the change.

The .ENV method doesn't appear to work for multiple users; does the file require a specific name? I've tried simply ".env" myself as well as other file names, and another person reported the same.

Aider continues to complain that the environmental variables aren't set.

[paul-gauthier]

You should create a .env file in the directory where you run aider. I've tested this on my local and it works fine.

I just pushed a change to add a --env-file param to aider, so you can explicitly tell it which file to load. By default it will look in the root of your git repo, in the same dir where you find the .git directory. But you can override and have it load a specific file with --env-file <filename>.

The change is available in the main branch. You can get it by installing the latest version from github:

python -m pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider.git

If you have a chance to try it, let me know if it works better for you.

[philliplyle]

I appreciate the feedback. I can only test on a Windows computer at the moment, but it's definitely not picking up my .env. See below. I'll test on the updated version when I can.

05/02/2024 12:56 PM

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05/01/2024 10:12 AM ..
05/02/2024 08:52 AM 34,417 .aider.chat.history.md
05/02/2024 08:49 AM 24 .aider.conf.yml
05/01/2024 01:30 PM 275 .aider.input.history
05/02/2024 08:49 AM 141 .env
05/01/2024 10:13 AM 108,459 aider.exe

more .env
AZURE_API_KEY=xxxx
AZURE_API_VERSION=2024-02-01
AZURE_API_BASE=xxx.openai.azure.com

aider
Aider v0.30.1
Newer version v0.31.1 is available. To upgrade, run:
C:\installdir\python.exe -m pip
install --upgrade aider-chat
Add .aider* to .gitignore (recommended)? n
**Model azure/test-model: Missing these environment variables:

• AZURE_API_BASE
• AZURE_API_VERSION
• AZURE_API_KEY**

[paul-gauthier]

I'm going to close this issue for now, but feel free to add a comment here and I will re-open or file a new issue any time.