Mealie

Mealie is a recipe manager. Its AI features import recipes from text, URLs and photos, parse ingredients, and match tags, categories and tools. You set the provider in the UI, not in env vars.

Upstream: source.

Plugboard options

Give Mealie its own key. default serves every AI feature. image is optional and only photo imports use it, so it must accept images. Docker needs a reachable address (Serving other machines).

{
  "options": {
    "listen": { "host": "0.0.0.0", "port": 4010 },
    "keys": { "mealie": "{env:PLUGBOARD_KEY_MEALIE}" },
    "models": ["opencode-go/glm-5.3-flash", "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6"],
    "aliases": {
      "default": "opencode-go/glm-5.3-flash",
      "image": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6"
    },
    "apps": { "mealie": { "allowedModels": ["default", "image"] } }
  }
}

Connect

In Mealie's group settings, add a provider:

Field	Value
Base URL	http://host.docker.internal:4010/v1 (with /v1)
API key	the mealie key
Model	default for the default provider, image for the image provider

Set the default provider first. The image provider is separate and optional.

What works

• The AI ingredient parser, import from a URL the scraper cannot read, and import from text, HTML or schema.org JSON, all through default.
• Photo import ("Import with AI" from images), through image. Turning the content into a recipe uses default.
• Organizer matching against your existing tags, categories and tools, through default.

Limits

• Video import needs audio transcription, which plugboard does not serve. Use another provider for it, or leave it off.
• Each alias target must also be in models, or the plugin refuses the options.