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Ollama is optional. BarkVisor talks to it on each Device. Completions go through Home :7777/v1, not Device :11434.

The Ollama nav item stays visible for admin and inference even when no Device can reach Ollama.

Install (when Ollama is down)

Section titled “Install (when Ollama is down)”

The page shows a multi-step panel and Recheck. Commands match the in-app copy. AgentBox and Mac mini are not install targets.

macOS

Terminal window
brew install ollama
brew services start ollama

Linux — install the distro package, or see ollama.com/download.

When Ollama comes up, the page switches to the model list without a full reload.

Live Device stats (CPU, memory, GPU busy percent) are on Device detail, not this page. Occupancy / passthrough is a different number.

Section titled “Catalog vs library search”

Filter catalog matches names already pulled on the Home. That is not a library search.

Search the Ollama library looks up names through Home (GET /api/home/ollama/library/search?q=). The daemon fetches https://ollama.com/api/tags (allowlisted) and filters locally. Empty query, upstream down, and no matches are explicit states. Each result has Download, which is the existing pull (POST /home/ollama/pull).

Pull by name stays as a fallback when you already know the slug.

Pull still needs a Device for where the weights land (sidebar Device if one is selected, otherwise any reachable Device).

Start and Stop

Section titled “Start and Stop”

A pulled model can only run on a Device that already has it.

  • Sidebar scoped to one Device that has the model: Start runs there. No picker.
  • Sidebar All, one reachable location: Start runs there. No picker.
  • Several reachable Devices have it: picker lists only those Devices. Always a real Device, never “Any reachable Device.”
  • No reachable location: Start is disabled (not on this Device, or only on unreachable Devices).

Stop uses the Device that is running the model and asks for confirmation first.

Completions

Section titled “Completions”

Home serves OpenAI-compatible completions at:

http://<home>:7777/v1/chat/completions

That is not Device :11434. Send Authorization: Bearer with an inference key from Settings.

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