Nextcloud Assistant Integration WITH LocalAI

[msgolshan]

Actual Behavior: When attempting to chat, the AI Assistant fails silently. No POST /v1/chat/completions request is ever sent from the browser (confirmed in Network Tab).

Expected Behavior: The Nextcloud AI Assistant should send a POST /v1/chat/completions request to the configured API and display the streaming response.

[msgolshan]

Assistant App Version: 2.9.0

Context Chat App Version: 5.0.0

[janepie]

Hey, thanks for notifying us! Can you check your browser console and your server logs for any related errors?
Also, it would help to know

• which AI provider you`re using
• which server version you're running
• if you have Context Agent installed

[msgolshan]

Thanks @janepie
I am Using LocalAI as a Local AI Server . I have Installed Nextcloud and LocalAI with Docker in the same Machine .
The OS is Ubantu.
The Nextcloud vesrion is 32.0 . I have not Used Context Agent but installed it.
I Only try with Chat.
I have tested with OpenAI API key and The same Error.
I can reach and call and get Answer from Calling LocalAI Service API via Curl Command .
I do not Get any Respons when i use Assistant App and chat Feature and I Get TimeOut.
I have Increased the Timeout to 600 .
There is no any Post Command when I Inspect the Console.

[msgolshan]

nextcloud@nextcloud-server:$ curl http://localhost:8085/v1/models
{"object":"list","data":[{"id":"qwen3-0.6b","object":"model"}]}nextcloud@nextcloud-server:$

2. nextcloud@nextcloud-server:$ curl -X POST http://172.25.0.3:8080/v1/chat/completions
   -H "Content-Type: application/json"
   -d '{
   "model": "qwen3-0.6b",
   "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "سلام"}]
   }'
   {"created":1763185902,"object":"chat.completion","id":"a10ca5f3-4bbe-4d41-b516-48fbdb671a7d","model":"qwen3-0.6b"," choices":[{"index":0,"finish_reason":"stop","message":{"role":"assistant","content":"\u003cthink\u003e\nOkay, the u ser just sent "سلام" in Arabic, which is the greeting "Hello". I need to respond appropriately. Let me think ab out the context. Since there's no specific query or topic mentioned, I should acknowledge the greeting and offer he lp. Maybe say "Hello! How can I assist you today?" to be helpful. Keep the tone friendly and open. Make sure it's clear and concise.\n\u003c/think\u003e\n\nمرحباً! هل هناك أي شيء يرغب في مساعدتك؟"}}],"usage":{"prompt_tokens":10," completion_tokens":103,"total_tokens":113}}nextcloud@nextcloud-server:$ ^C
   nextcloud@nextcloud-server:~$

The Server Log
5:51AM INF Success ip=172.25.0.1 latency=3.618300395s method=POST status=200 url =/v1/chat/completions
5:51AM INF Success ip=172.25.0.1 latency="53.325µs" method=GET status=200 url=/a pi/operations
5:51AM INF Success ip=172.25.0.1 latency="52.093µs" method=GET status=200 url=/a pi/operations

But it dosent work in Assistant App

[janepie]

Context Agent is automatically used in Chat if installed and enabled. Can you disable the Context Agent task type and try again?
Additionally, please make sure the AI background workers are running: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/ai/overview.html#improve-ai-task-pickup-speed

[TheWojtek]

@janepie - where does this screen come from?
I run Nextcloud 32.0.2 (regular server, not in docker) with Nextcloud Assistant 2.10.0. and LocalAI integration 3.9.1 (hooked up to my Ollama running on a different machine) and my list looks very much different:

I got no "Context agent" to start with.

Furthermore, the settings in the Nextcloud assistant are confusing:

1. Why does it warn me it needs something to generate stickers, if I have the sticker feature turned off? This warning should only be displayed if there is a discrepancy between what the user wants (stickers) and what functionalities are available (no image generation provider). Only then a warning message should be displayed, otherwise we get too much information we do not need.
2. Why does it warn me it needs something for speech-to-text if I have it turned off? Same issue.
3. The best point is that both (completely unnecessary) warnings ask me to install OpenAI/LocalAI integration... I have installed and running (even with 'Generate image' ability). Again, what is the point of displaying a warning that is false on so many levels?

(BTW even though I have the LocalAI/OpenAI integration up and running, there is no way to actually toggle this sticker generation ability, not that I need it anyway, but seems NC Assistant is rather oblivious of the fact that the Open/LocalAI integration is providing these abilities)

4. NC Assistant claims there are no text processing "apps"

• yet this is exactly what NC Assistant does, it is an app that allows for text processing - why is the NC Assistant UI contrary to what NC Assistant does? Same goes for the image generation - warning of "None of your currently installed apps provide image generation functionality" and yet NC Assistant provides exactly this functionality once it interfaced to an image generation model running on LocalAI.