Unable to Setup Open Notebook Using Only OpenRouter

[iocouto]

I've tried setting up Open Notebook using PikaPods — a service which essentially setups up a cloud server with a standard-issue official Dockerised version of Open Notebook.

During the setup through PikaPods, we can enter the necessary API keys for the different AI providers. I only have an account with OpenRouter — much more efficient than having to keep multiple accounts in various providers — so I just entered the OpenRouter API key and base URL in the ENV variables setup.

My Open Notebook instance starts up, but I cannot use anything, as it tells me that I need to go to the 'Models page' and setup my providers. In the Models page, there are NO providers listed as 'Available': every provider, including OpenRouter, is listed as 'Unavailable', even though OpenRouter's ENV vars have indeed been setup during the deployment...

Am I missing something obvious, or is there a possible bug with the OpenRouter setup in Open Notebook?

[lfnovo]

Hi @iocouto , thanks for reporting this. Yes, there is a small issue with the OpenRouter implementation, the app is being excessively demanding to check for its existence. I am fixing this for a next release, but you can fix it on your own to continue using the app. All you need to do is setup an env variable with this:

OPENROUTER_BASE_URL="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"

This will be fixed in the next release but hopefully can get you going now. Just add the env var. Let me know if that works.

[dnoggle]

I just came across the same issue, but I have OPENROUTER_BASE_URL="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1" set and it's still doing the same thing.

[iocouto]

Thank you for the quick response, @lfnovo!
Unfortunately, like @dnoggle, I had already set the OPENROUTER_BASE_URL env variable with the correct URL, but it was still not working... :(

[lfnovo]

Thats weird.. I just tested that. Let me work on a fix tonight and I'll let you know ok? Need to dive deeper then.

Just to make sure.. did you restart your pikapods container after changing the env variable? Otherwise, it wouldn't pick up.

[lfnovo]

Yeah.. you are right guys. I just created a new deployment on PIkapods and it won't work.. even with the base url set. For some overlook, its also requiring openai_api_key to enable open router 🤷‍♂️. I totally oversaw this one. I'll be pushing a fix, but a good short time workaround would be to add something to the OPENAI_API_KEY.. valid or not. Sorry for this. Will be pushing a fix soon.

@iocouto and @dnoggle

[lfnovo]

This has been fixed in this 0.3.2 release. Will work with the Pikapods guys to replace it on their images as well. But the latest docker image has the fix already.