Use Open WebUI with Your N8N AI Agents - Voice Chat Included!

I have added Open WebUI into the local AI starter kit developed by the N8N team AND created the custom functionality to make it possible to chat with your N8N workflows directly in Open WebUI just like you would any Ollama model! Using Open WebUI, you can even use voice to chat with your N8N agents, it's pretty slick!

The goal here is to continue to build on this local AI stack to make it SUPER easy for anyone to download, run, and get started with running everything needed for AI locally - LLMs, RAG, an interface, a SQL DB, and workflow automations!

See the links below to get started!

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00:00 - Intro
01:56 - Overview of the Local AI Stack
05:27 - How to Run the Local AI Stack w/ Open WebUI
09:35 - RAG AI Agent N8N Workflow Walkthrough
15:26 - Integrating Open WebUI with N8N
22:09 - Chatting with our N8N Agent in Open WebUI
24:04 - Voice Chat with our N8N Agent
25:33 - Outro

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Download this local AI stack and get started now (go to the root of the repo to clone it)!

Here is the README with all the instructions I cover in the video:

Here is the function I created in Open WebUI to integrate with N8N!

Get Docker Desktop (one of the many ways to get Docker on your machine):

Original local AI starter kit repo by the N8N team:

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Artificial Intelligence is no doubt the future of not just software development but the whole world. And I'm on a mission to master it - focusing first on mastering AI Agents.

Join me as I push the limits of what is possible with AI. I'll be uploading videos at least two times a week - Sundays and Wednesdays at 7:00 PM CDT! Sundays and Wednesdays are for everything AI, focusing on providing insane and practical educational value. I will also post sometimes on Fridays at 7:00 PM CDT - specifically for platform showcases - sometimes sponsored, always creative in approach!

[lofigamervibes]

I haven't even gotten 30 seconds into this video and I'm so excited... You're like my fav YouTuber to learn this stuff from, but I'm a big Open WebUI user and I am SO F-ing pumped right now you made this video... This is what I have been waiting for to allow me to connect all of the dots in my own little AI world setup.

[CameronGolinsky-opet]

I haven't even finished the video and I'm astounded at the rate you can consume new information, master it, script a video, and demo it in a step-by-step accessible way. Truly a unicorn and my personal Youtube Hero.

[somecrazyusername]

LOVE IT. After very quick test including closing the microphone listening window, I tried building a push-to-talk action button. It does not quite work yet, but in further testing, my microphone stops listening while "thinking" and responding, then back to active listening when the response ends.

[zofaridi]

Yo, you're quick to address the ollama issue. props.

[smithtate]

I love your work flow and how you think about the processes and how to integrate them, I wan to thank you for pulling all this together.

[Saint_Iori]

00:05 Integrating open web UI for chatting with n8n AI agents
02:11 Self-hosted AI starter kit with various services packaged together.
06:01 Setting up Open WebUI with N8N AI Agents locally
07:56 Access N8N through Local Host Port 5678 for account setup.
11:58 Configuring connections and credentials for different nodes in N8N workflow
14:01 Using Google Drive as an example for ingesting documents and updating the quadrant vector store.
17:46 Customize valves in N8N AI agents for specific integrations
19:34 Open WebUI allows convenient parameter customization for n8n AI agents.
23:07 Open Web UI allows for easy customization and voice chat with N8N AI agents
25:01 Extension of local AI starter kit with Open WebUI for voice chat integration.
Crafted by Merlin AI.

[neutonlima]

Wow, amazing and complete free content ! I Think the next step is to implement the vision of llama 3.2 in this workflow!

[DigitalAlchemyst]

I was probably one of the few who didn't see this as a missing feature but a chance to integrate my own web UI for chat it originally started as a chat gpt clone and got various features added, now I have my own model to run it on that's dope but great video for everyone else still watching it

[PixelFrontier-channel]

Dude this is so fire, this is exactly what I wanted you are a godsend.

[PlanetJeroen]

The only thing thats kinda missing from being a starterkit, is a fully worked out agent that doesnt just handle a document that only has text in it well, but that will handle a document with pictures, text and code. Ideally spreadsheets too. Also, how to train a model on the collected vector data. Thank you for sharing the journey!

[adnilsonmedina]

What incredible video! Congratulations. This is the best video I saw on youtube about it

[photize]

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[simonbalderson]

This was such a great video - thank you! It would be great to extend this by enabling file uploads via OpenWebUI. I'm guessing that would just mean detecting whether a file has been uploaded or not and putting it in the vector store.

[DaniPratikno-btj]

Thank you for creating such an outstanding tutorial! I truly appreciate your effort in making this video.

[LudwigSolutionsAI]

Hands down you are a godsend. Thank you so much for this video. I was spinning my wheels as of late and now I can let off the brake 🚘🚀

[DeltaZ]

Cole! You are the man! Thanks for this awesome integration!

[thesvenni]

Dude! You deserve so much more subscribers!

[jeffreymoore]

Hi Cole. Regarding addition to your project: Add nodered, influxdb, grafana to the container
Then input IOT data with an MQQT node in nodered. Then webhook and/or api call from influxdb. That way your RAG is live data. Maybe some observability with grafana because it is awesome. Thanks.

[knning_wst]

Really thank you for your awesome work! 🎉

[jakkalsvibes]

Thank you :-) please tell me how do I get the' Documents' and 'Prompt' Tabs on the left below Workspace