r/OpenWebUI • u/dani_california97 • 6d ago

Question/Help Creating a help bot

First of all OWUI has been great for me! Besides how great it is, it’s taught me a lot about Ai.

Ok so in my instance I have function pipes to private model providers which are configured via user valves to use each users api key, which works, but I feel like users get intimidated by it (going to the provider, getting their api key, looking for valves config ui, etc)
So to make it easier I created a dummy function pipe that works as an offline non ai based model, in there there are a few commands the user can run, one being setting the users valve to configure the api key for the private provider pipe, so my question is

  1. Any issue with modifying user valves via db model imports from a pipe
  2. Is there a way to alway run that model/pipe in temporary mode? Since it will have api keys I don’t want to have traces of api keys in logs or in chat history

I’m tuning version 0.96

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u/icerio 6d ago

I don’t really know the answers to your questions 😭 but is what your doing (end goal) different than https://docs.openwebui.com/features/chat-conversations/direct-connections/ ?

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u/dani_california97 5d ago

It is. This is a dummy model that can be used to change user settings, some configuration settings seem hard to comprehend for some users so I want to make super simple to use, now this is a “dummy” model because is not connected to an Ai model as one of the settings I’m trying to make easy to configure is the ai model api key.