The forum is now AI-powered 🤖

[pierre-gilles]

Hello everyone!

I installed this afternoon the new official plugin Discourse AI, which allows integrating LLMs into the forum.

These AI agents are available in several places:

Help with posting

When you write a post on the forum, you now have the option to ask an AI to help you write that post.

The most convenient is the « Proofread the text » option, which will correct all spelling mistakes before publishing

Feel free to abuse this feature haha

AI Bot

You may have noticed, there’s a new icon in the top bar:

If you click it, you arrive at an interface that lets you chat with an intelligent assistant that draws all its knowledge from the forum’s data!

For example, if I ask it a question about Shelly modules, the assistant perfectly finds the information on the forum:

Summarize a thread

Long threads can now be summarized in one click:

Handy for quickly reading a long thread!

Don’t have access to these features?

To prevent abuse (because these features cost money to use), these features are available starting at trust level 1 on the forum

If you don’t have access to the features, tell me under this post and I’ll add the required trust level

I’d love to hear your feedback on these features!

[pierre-gilles]

I’ve enabled another feature: the ability to use AI in search.

The results are more relevant, and a bot explains in natural language what it found

[Tlse-vins]

For new users, it’s going to be super convenient. It’s cool.

[guim31]

That’s great! Unfortunately I ran into a crash during my test:

[pierre-gilles]

I have the same issue, I think we should wait, it’s probably a problem with the OpenAI API

Edit: It seems like an outage at Cloudflare is the cause, and I’m using their « AI Gateway » to call the OpenAI API

Edit 2: It looks like a major widespread issue affecting quite a few cloud providers, I see Google Cloud down on Twitter..

[pierre-gilles]

It should be back now for anyone who wants to test The outage lasted 2 hours yesterday!

[guim31]

DAMN… it works VERY well !!
Le vrai problème au fond, c’est que le forum va être vachement moins actif en questions

Great job, very useful !

[pierre-gilles]

@guim31

The real problem, deep down, is that the forum will be a lot less active in questions

I actually think the opposite — it will even more easily guide users to the right topics and thus, potentially, make discussion easier!

AI doesn’t invent content; users still have to ask the questions the first time

[prohand]

That will also avoid duplicate questions

[mutmut]

AI, it’s not quite there yet with images:

@gpt-4.1

No, I can’t directly perform OCR (optical character recognition) on an image present in a forum thread. I don’t have the ability to download an image, extract the text from it, and return it to you.

[mutmut]

I must be in a bad mood with AIs, it’s driving me crazy.
J’essaie de trouver une méthode pour connaître TOUS les appareils d’une pièce avec l’IA, notamment pour trouver quels sont mes appareils ayant une température (pour valider la moyenne car j’ai un truc bizarre avec plusieurs sondes dans une même pièce).

[Prof_Techno]

Thank you, I’ll finally be able to write.

[pierre-gilles]

@mutmut The AI only searches the forum; if the content doesn’t exist on the forum, it can’t invent it

Regarding the API, everything in Gladys is API, so if you see something in the interface it’s necessarily available via the API

The API documentation is available here :

HTTP API | Gladys Assistant

[mutmut]

thanks @pierre-gilles for the info.
I managed to retrieve my access_token and query my Gladys thanks to the API.
After that it’s beyond my skills to retrieve all the devices of a room via the API, I only know how to see either the info for all Gladys devices (v1/device), or the rooms (v1/room), or a room (v1/room/salon) but not a devices-by-room combination.
If you have any tips to give me …

EDIT :

@pierre-gilles

if you see something on the interface it’s necessarily available via the API

So since I can’t see all the devices of a single room in the interface, does that mean it simply doesn’t exist in the API?

[Terdious]

Hi @mutmut,

Maybe try Insomnia (to download), there is then a JSON config file to import created by @pierre-gilles:

GitHub - GladysAssistant/Gladys: A privacy-first, open-source home assistant

insomnia.json

I use it frequently.

[mutmut]

thanks @Terdious
I’ve managed to find some things (with difficulty, not being proficient in dev and this logic) and my path is /api/v1/room/salon?expand=devices
I think I now understand why I have a low average room temperature, I’ll create a separate thread.