I am new to obsidian. Started using it about a week ago.
I installed Smart Connections very erly maybe Day 1 or 2.
at first it worked fine then it stopped working (gets stuck at loading.
Things I have tried
At first I used without an API key and it worked fine.
When it stopped working I tried Gemini’s API, apparently it’s not suppported. I tried an APi from OpenRouter, it didn’t work Either.
Is there a way to get it to ork again without getting the oggicial open AI API?
Obsidian Copilot supports Gemini API (free keys available).
But if you want to crawl the content of your vault, I’m not sure their model is capable of doing embedding.
What I do is use Msty. You can drag your vault onto a Knowledge Stack and it automatically downloads MixedBread Large to crawl all your files (takes some time) and then you can chat with the vault content with any non-embedding online model from Groq, Gemini etc. for free.
You may want to try deleting the Smart Connections cache directory located at the root of your vault before starting Obsidian. The cache directory is at <location of your vault>/.smart-env.
If you do that your entire vault will be re-indexed.
If that does not help you could remove the Smart Connection plugin the hard way and manually delete the plugin directory before you start Obsidian. The plugin directory is at: <location of your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/smart-connections .
If you do that you need to re-install and configure the plugin again from scratch.
You should also make sure you use the BGE-micro-v2 embedding model initially.