This app allows you to send iMessages to the GenAI models running on your own computer. See it in action with this video 👇.

https://youtu.be/rlD4FtIXV8E

This project uses Docker compose to run the required services locally. It uses sendblue to handle iMessages and ollama to install and manage AI models.

If you add an OpenAI key you can also use ChatGPT.

Usage

You use the app by sending messages to the bot. See the setup instructions on how to configure sendblue.

There is a /help message that lists available commands. Some examples include:

/help - list help commands
/list - list available models
/install - install a model from ollama
/default - set a default model

Message the Bot with any text.

Messages have key words than may trigger special styles. In the future it will also support sending styles as part of the message. Reactions and marking messages as read currently does not work.

The default AI model is stored in default.ai text. If you want to change the default you can send the command /default gpt-3.5.

If you want to message a different bot for a single message you can use @ with the model name.

@llama how does electricity work

This will use the closest match for llama in your model list to ask the question. If you have multiple models that start with llama you need to be more specific about which model you want to use.

Context is kept in app/context.txt and only 25 lines of context is stored.

Setup

Clone the repo and run the app locally. The app comes with 3 parts:

1. sendblue bridge (lollm)
2. ngrok
3. ollama

Ollama will manage the models for you. Ngrok will give you a public webhook to use with sendblue. Lollm is the bridge that relays messages between the AI models and sendblue.

git clone [email protected]:rothgar/local-llm.git
cd local-llm
docker compose up

The first time you run the application if you don't have an OpenAI key then the llama2:latest model will be installed for ollama. This image is about 4GB in size so be prepared for it to take a while.

Watch the output for your ngrok endpoint. It should look like this:

local-llm-messenger-ngrok-1   | t=2023-11-03T23:15:11+0000 lvl=info msg="tunnel session started" obj=tunnels.session               
local-llm-messenger-ngrok-1   | t=2023-11-03T23:15:11+0000 lvl=info msg="started tunnel" obj=tunnels name=command_line addr=http://
localhost:8000 url=https://6336-47-149-36-168.ngrok.io

The url host https://6336-47-149-36-168.ngrok.io is what you're going to put into the sendblue api dashboard. You need to add /msg to the end of the receive webhook so the full url should look like:

https://6336-47-149-36-168.ngrok.io/msg

Save the configuration and copy the API Key and API secret from the dashboard. Put them in the app/.env file:

SENDBLUE_API_KEY=xxxxxx....
SENDBLUE_API_SECRET=xxxxx....

You also need to put the OLLAMA_ENDPOINT into the .env file. This default will work with docker compose

OLLAMA_API_ENDPOINT=https://ollama:11434/api

If you want to use ChatGPT you also can put your OpenAI key. You can create one in your user settings.

OPENAI_API_KEY=xxxxx....

You now need to add your phone number as a sendblue contact. Navigate to the contacts dashboard and click Add Contact.

You should test that you can receive the messages by sending a test message from the dashboard.

After your contact is set up you should be able to send messages to the sendblue number and they will be forwarded to lollm.

Limitations

You can use ChatGPT with your own API key but currently only gpt-3.5-turbo and dalle-2 are available from the API. When gpt-4 and dalle-3 are added to the API we can add them to the app.

Ollama does not yet support any AI models that have image generation or image processing. When models are available we can add the ability to send and receive images. If you send images to the bot they are downloaded into app/media/ but are currently not used for anything until image processing or generation is available.

Ollama does not yet support message context (only supported with openAI).

You can sign up for a sendblue indehacker account by emailing their support and requesting it for personal use. It is limited to 100 messages a month and always appends -Sent using sendblue.co to your messages.