Error creating note: Failed to get embeddings: All connection attempts failed when using Ollama model and embedding

[nate-b-martin]

Hey,

I just found out about this project today and wanted to try it out as I've been looking for local AI note taking app. I previously tried Blinko but was getting issues when trying to connect it to Ollama.

With open-notebook i'm getting an issue when trying to save a note or search notes using ollama.

This is the error I get when trying to save a note

RuntimeError: API request failed: 500 - {"detail":"Error creating note: Failed to get embeddings: All connection attempts failed"}

File "/app/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/streamlit/runtime/fragment.py", line 245, in wrapped_fragment
    result = non_optional_func(*args, **kwargs)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/streamlit/elements/dialog_decorator.py", line 99, in dialog_content
    _ = non_optional_func(*args, **kwargs)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/pages/stream_app/note.py", line 24, in add_note
    notes_service.create_note(
File "/app/api/notes_service.py", line 57, in create_note
    note_data = api_client.create_note(
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/api/client.py", line 228, in create_note
    return self._make_request("POST", "/api/notes", json=data)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/api/client.py", line 49, in _make_request
    raise RuntimeError(

This is my docker-compose file, along with this my environment file I set google api key and ollama as OLLAMA_API_BASE="http://127.0.0.1:11434"

When I set model and embedding using google everything works fine but when I switch to use ollama thats when things start breaking.

services:
  surrealdb:
    image: surrealdb/surrealdb:v2
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    volumes:
      - ./surreal_data/:/mydata
    command: start --user root --pass root rocksdb:/mydata/mydatabase.db
    pull_policy: always
    user: root

  open_notebook:
    image: lfnovo/open_notebook:latest
    ports:
      - "8080:8502"
    env_file:
      - docker.env
    depends_on:
      - surrealdb
    pull_policy: always
    volumes:
      - ./notebook_data:/app/data

for OLLAMA_API_BASE="http://127.0.0.1:11434" I also tried localhost:11434 but that also didn't work.

has anyone else ran into this issue and let me know if you need more info. Thanks!

[lfnovo]

If you are running open notebook in docker, you can't refer to ollama as localhost. You need to either use your machine IP or host.docker.internal to refer to the host machine.

[lfnovo]

See this: #100

[nate-b-martin]

If you are running open notebook in docker, you can't refer to ollama as localhost. You need to either use your machine IP or host.docker.internal to refer to the host machine.

Awesome! Thanks for the tip I got it working by adding host.docker.internal

[nate-b-martin]

@lfnovo suggestion with host.docker.internal worked for my use case