# Elia x Vivgrid

> Source: https://vivgrid.com/docs/tutorials/elia

How to integrate Vivgrid to Elia

## Elia

[Elia](https://github.com/darrenburns/elia) is an open source TUI for interacting with LLMs, it's designed to be keyboard-focused and efficient to use.

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  ![elia with function calling on Vivgrid](/images/tuto-elia.jpg)
</Card>

## Install Elia

Elia can be installed by [pipx](https://github.com/pypa/pipx), if you don't have pipx, follow these steps:

```sh tab="Mac"
brew install pipx
```

```sh tab="Fedora"
sudo dnf install pipx
```

```sh tab="Ubuntu"
sudo apt update && sudo apt install pipx
```

```sh tab="Windows"
scoop install pipx
```

After this, remember run:

```sh
pipx ensurepath
```

Then, install Elia:

```sh
pipx install elia-chat
```

## Configure Elia for Vivgrid

edit elia configuration file: 

```sh
vim ~/.config/elia/config.toml
```

with content:

```toml
default_model="vivgrid"

[[models]]
id = "vivgrid"
name = "openai/vivgrid"
api_base = "https://api.vivgrid.com/v1/"
api_key = "<VIVGRID_API_SECRET>"
```

## Try it!

```sh
elia "how's the weather in London?"
```