# Get Started

This guide walks you through installing dependencies, configuring defaults, and running the application.

## Step 1: Install Dependencies

To install dependencies, do the following:

### A. Install FFmpeg (required for audio processing)

Download from [https://ffmpeg.org/download.html](https://ffmpeg.org/download.html), and add the `ffmpeg/bin` folder to your system `PATH`.

### B. Install DL Streamer

Download the archive from [DL Streamer assets on GitHub](https://github.com/open-edge-platform/edge-ai-libraries/releases). Extract to a new folder, for example `C:\\dlstreamer_dlls`.

For details, refer to the [Install Guide](https://docs.openedgeplatform.intel.com/2026.0/edge-ai-libraries/dlstreamer/get_started/install/install_guide_windows.html).

**Run your shell with admin privileges before starting the application**

### C. Clone Repository

```bash
  git clone --no-checkout https://github.com/open-edge-platform/edge-ai-suites.git
  cd edge-ai-suites
  git sparse-checkout init --cone
  git sparse-checkout set education-ai-suite
  git checkout
  cd education-ai-suite
```

### D. Install Python dependencies

It’s recommended to create a **dedicated Python virtual environment** for the base dependencies.

```bash
python -m venv smartclassroom
smartclassroom\Scripts\activate

# Use Python 3.12.x before running pip.
cd smart-classroom
python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt
```

## Step 2: Configuration

### A. Default Configuration

By default, the project uses Whisper for transcription and OpenVINO-based Qwen models for summarization.You can modify these settings in the configuration file (`smart-classroom/config.yaml`):

```bash
asr:
  provider: openai            # Supported: openvino, openai, funasr
  name: whisper-small          # Options: whisper-tiny, whisper-small, paraformer-zh etc.
  device: CPU                 # Whisper currently supports only CPU
  temperature: 0.0

summarizer:
  provider: openvino
  name: Qwen/Qwen2-7B-Instruct # Examples: Qwen/Qwen1.5-7B-Chat, Qwen/Qwen2-7B-Instruct, Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
  device: GPU                 # Options: GPU or CPU
  weight_format: int8         # Supported: fp16, fp32, int4, int8
  max_new_tokens: 1024        # Maximum tokens to generate in summaries
```

### B. Chinese Audio Transcription

For Chinese audio transcription, switch to funASR with Paraformer in your config (`smart-classroom/config.yaml`):

```bash
asr:
  provider: funasr
  name: paraformer-zh
```

**Important: After updating the configuration, reload the application for changes to take effect.**

## Step 3: Run the Application

Activate the environment before running the application:

```bash
smartclassroom\Scripts\activate
```

Run the backend:

```bash
python main.py
```
You should see backend logs similar to this:

```text
pipeline initialized
[INFO] __main__: App started, Starting Server...
INFO:     Started server process [21616]
INFO:     Waiting for application startup.
INFO:     Application startup complete.
INFO:     Uvicorn running on http://0.0.0.0:8000 (Press CTRL+C to quit)
```

This means your pipeline server has started successfully and is ready to accept requests.

Bring Up the Frontend:

> **Note:** Open a second (new) Command Prompt/ terminal window for the frontend.
> The backend terminal stays busy serving requests.

```bash
cd <path-to>\edge-ai-suites\education-ai-suite\smart-classroom\ui
npm install
npm run dev -- --host 0.0.0.0 --port 5173
```

## Step 4: Access the UI

After starting the frontend you can open the Smart Classroom UI in a browser:

Local machine:

- `http://localhost:5173`
- `http://127.0.0.1:5173`

From another device on the same network (replace <HOST_IP> with your computer’s IP):

- `http://<HOST_IP>:5173`

Find your IP (Windows PowerShell):

```sh
ipconfig
```

Use the IPv4 Address from your active network adapter.

If you changed the port, adjust the URL accordingly.

## Step 5: Speaker Diarization Setup (Pyannote)

Speaker diarization is supported using Pyannote Audio models.
To enable diarization, you must request access to the Pyannote pretrained models and provide a Hugging Face access token.

### a. Request Model Access on Hugging Face

Pyannote diarization models require gated access.

Request access here:

[Pyannote Speaker Diarization v3.1](https://huggingface.co/pyannote/speaker-diarization-3.1)

[Pyannote segmentation v3.0](https://huggingface.co/pyannote/segmentation-3.0)

Click "Request Access" on the model page and wait for approval.

### b. Create a Hugging Face Access Token

After approval:

Go to the [Hugging Face Access Token](https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens) page.

Create a Read access token

Copy the generated token

### c. Configure Hugging Face Token in Project Config

Open your model configuration file `config/models.yaml` Add your Hugging Face token:

```yaml
models:
  asr:
    diarization: true
    hf_token: "hf_your_access_token_here"
```

## Troubleshooting

- **Frontend not opening:**
  Ensure you ran `npm run dev` in a second terminal after starting `python main.py`.

- **Backend not ready:**
  Wait until Uvicorn shows **"Application startup complete"** and is listening on port **8000**.

- **URL fails from another device:**
  Confirm you used `--host 0.0.0.0` and replaced `<HOST_IP>` correctly.

- **Nothing at http://localhost:5173:**
  Check that the frontend terminal shows the Vite server running and no port conflict.

- **Firewall blocks access:**
  Allow inbound traffic on ports **5173** (frontend) and **8000** (backend) on Windows.

- **Auto reload not happening:**
  Refresh manually if the backend was restarted after initial UI load.

- **Error: `Port for tensor name cache_position was not found.`**
  This means the models were not configured correctly.
  To fix this:

  1. Delete the models directory:

     ```text
     edge-ai-suites/education-ai-suite/smart-classroom/models
     ```

  2. Rerun only Step 1’s option **c** (OpenVINO) or **d** (IPEX), whichever applies.

 - **Crash during application bring-up on Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 3 processors without any error:** Sometimes OpenVINO GenAI models may crash on newer hardware. Try setting `use_ov_genai: False` in `config.yaml`.

- **Tokenizer load issue:**

  If you see this error:

  ```bash
  Either openvino_tokenizer.xml was not provided or it was not loaded correctly. Tokenizer::encode is not available
  ```

  Delete the models folder from `edge-ai-suites/education-ai-suite/smart-classroom/models` and try again.

- If you see below error while running dls setup script,

  ```text
  .\setup_dls_env.ps1
    CategoryInfo          : SecurityError: (:) [], PSSecurityException
    FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnauthorizedAccess
  ```

  Run the command:

  ```bash
  Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass
  ```

### Known Issues

- **Manual Video File Path Input**: Users are required to manually specify the path to video files from their local system in the base directory input. It is recommended to keep all video files in the same directory for seamless operation.
- **Live Video Monitoring Timeout**: Live video monitoring sessions will automatically stop after 45 minutes if the user does not reload the page to start a new session.
- **Stream End Notification**: Once the video streaming ends, the user will see a "Stream not found" message on the screen, indicating that the stream has concluded.
- **Do Not Reload During Active Streaming**: Users should not reload the page while the stream is active. Reloading the page will terminate the session, and the user will lose the current stream. Wait until the "Stream not found" notification appears on the screen before reloading.
- **Video Ready Notification**: If the URL is configured in the settings, the notification will display "Video Ready" unless the screen is reloaded. Reloading the screen will reset the session and the notification.

## Uninstall the Application

To uninstall the application, follow these steps:

1. **Delete the Python virtual environment folder:** \
   Navigate to the directory and remove \
   For base environment : *education-ai-suite/smartclassroom*. \
   For IPEX environemnt : *education-ai-suite/smartclassroom_ipex*.
2. **Remove the models directory:**
   Remove the models folder located under *education-ai-suite/smart-classroom*.


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