UI Doesn't Appear to Load

[Mer-idium]

Describe the bug
Starting the service with pnpm start --character="characters/character.json" appears to work and load my character file, however, when I attempt to access the agent via the UI I am greeted with a message "Welcome, this is the REST API!" and nothing else. I have specified port 3000 within my .env file and I am using this to access the UI. Additionally, the start up appears to halt on "initialising LlamaService" even though I have specified OpenAI within my character and .env file.

I am also quite confused between the pnpm start --character="characters/character.json" and the pnpm start:client, where the latter does not register as a command. Is there a specific way in which to run these commands?

To Reproduce

• Build Eliza-Starter
• Create character and specify OpenAI
• Set OpenAI API Key within .env
• Start the service with pnpm start --character="characters/character.json"

Expected behaviour

Im not entirely sure, it is the first time I am starting the service without the build breaking. I have seen a few images/videos with people interacting with the agents via a UI. I would assume this loads and you can interact with it in such a way.

Screenshots

[lalalune]

It's an annoying thing (fixed in the next release, which we're working on) but pnpm run start:client -- the run is required if it's not start. Anyways it's a bad design and it's being fixed :)

[Mer-idium]

So if I am correct the sequence is:

pnpm start --character="characters/character.json"
followed by
pnpm run start:client

or does the "start:client" supersede like this pnpm run start:client --character="characters/character.json"