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AI: Add support for OLLAMA_API_KEY and OLLAMA_BASE_URL to configure Ollama #5361

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As an Ollama Cloud user, I want to be able to set my API key via OLLAMA_API_KEY and the service base URL via OLLAMA_BASE_URL, rather than having to set them manually in my vision.yml file.

👉 https://docs.ollama.com/cloud#cli

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    AI: Use OLLAMA_API_KEY as API auth token if specified #5361

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    AI: Update model Options overview in docs to align with code #5361

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    AI: Set default Model & URI depending on OLLAMA_API_KEY env var #5361

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    AI: Ensure default caption model only runs manual #5361

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  11. lastzero commented on Dec 4, 2025

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    @graciousgrey @omerdduran These changes should ensure that the built-in caption model default/example only runs manually and isn't flagged as a default model. This is to prevent the standard vision config from always sending requests to http://ollama:11434/api/generate during or after indexing, since most users either won't have an Ollama instance, or if they have one, it might use a different URL. Please make sure to double-check that this works! Alternatively, we can remove the built-in caption model default/example.

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    AI: Remove OLLAMA_BASE_URL default from Dockerfiles #5361

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    Setup: Add OLLAMA_API_KEY and OLLAMA_BASE_URL to Compose files #5361

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  16. lastzero commented on Dec 11, 2025

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    You can use our preview build to test this:

    services:
  photoprism:
    image: photoprism/photoprism:preview
    environment:
      OLLAMA_BASE_URL: "http://ollama:11434"         # use "https://ollama.com" for Ollama Cloud
      OLLAMA_API_KEY: ""                             # API key required to access Ollama (optional)
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    CI: Fix typo in docker/develop/questing/Dockerfile #5361

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    Dev: Upgrade base image from 251208-questing to 251211-questing #5361

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  19. spotlesscoder commented on Feb 22, 2026

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    is this still only in the preview build?

  20. lastzero commented on Feb 23, 2026

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    Yes, but a new stable release is planned for the end of February or early March.

  21. lastzero commented on Mar 5, 2026

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    @spotlesscoder This is now available as part of our latest stable release:

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