initial setup not working. help needed please.

[sonatonagems]

I followed the tutorial video and attempting to run using the pnpm run start --characters="../characters/trump.character.json".

It then gives me the following instructions: Run pnpm start:client to start the client and visit the outputted URL (http://localhost:5173) to chat with your agents. When running multiple agents, use client with different port SERVER_PORT=3001 pnpm start:client"]

["✓ REST API bound to 0.0.0.0:3000. If running locally, access it at http://localhost:3000."]

I then run pnpm start:client in a new terminal which opens up a url to chat with the agent. But then as soon as i ask the agent a question on the url. I get the following error:

⛔ ERRORS
ERROR:
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[chopshop1]

Hey @sonatonagems it seems like the OPENAI_API_KEY is not set or initialized properly. You should double check to make sure that injected into your environment correctly. You can quickly check if initialized on windows properly by typing echo %VARIABLE% I believe or just env on terminal on mac and linux. Let me know if that resolved your issue here 👍

[sonatonagems]

thank you @chopshop1 , yes i did not have that set properly. also this is probably a silly question but im not a dev and a total beginner. in order to use any of these llm models we need to pay for it? i got an api key from open ai, but i have not paid for any plan. are there any from the modelprovider list that i can set up on the .env file that i dont have to pay for?

[hello2jie]

you can try local provider like ollama

[AIFlowML]

What is the version of ElizaOS you running ? Can you try run without the character file and see if all booth ?

[sonatonagems]

@AIFlowML i used this to run the latest version: git checkout $(git describe --tags --abbrev=0). Do i just run it using it pnpm run start? to see what happens?

[sonatonagems]

@hello2jie thank you i will just try that

[tcm390]

Hi @sonatonagems, can you confirm if the issue is fixed?

[sonatonagems]

@tcm390 hey, yes i got it work. ollama wasnt working. it kept giving an issue with the endpoint. i just got credits for open router and it worked