Troubleshooting.

Chalie logs every LLM call and gives you a full usage breakdown in the Brain dashboard.

1. Open the Brain dashboard.
2. Click Cognition in the left sidebar, then select Usage.
3. You'll see four stat cards: Total Tokens, Cache Hit Rate, Today (UTC), and Top Model.

Use the time-window buttons at the top (Hour, Day, Week, Month, Lifetime) to filter the data. The stacked bar chart below breaks usage into Chat tokens (your conversations) and Subconscious tokens (background processing like memory decay and pattern extraction).

If you're using a paid provider like OpenAI or Anthropic, check the Today (UTC) card for daily cost tracking. Switching to a local model via Ollama removes token costs entirely — usage is still tracked but there's no monetary cost.

Voice is off by default. It isn't bundled with the installer — so nothing downloads or runs until you choose to turn it on. When you enable it, Chalie fetches the Kokoro v1.0 voice model on demand and runs it locally on your device, so your text is never sent to an external service.

Turning voice on: Open Settings and enable voice. Chalie downloads the on-device voice models in the background; until that finishes, voice features stay unavailable. Once it's ready, a speaker icon appears below each Chalie message.

Listening to responses: Click the speaker icon below any Chalie message to hear it read aloud. You get play/pause, ±10s skip, and a progress slider. The first playback may take a moment while the voice model loads — subsequent responses are faster.

Turning voice off: Disable voice again in Settings at any time.

The voice and speed are not currently adjustable through the UI. Chalie's Personality sliders (warmth, mood, expressiveness, curiosity, humour) affect the conversational tone of responses but do not change the TTS voice itself.

The chat window loads 12 messages at a time and caps at 120 messages total. This is by design — it keeps the interface fast. Scroll up near the top of the chat to automatically load older messages in batches of 12.

Your conversations aren't lost. All messages are stored in your local SQLite database. When the context sent to your LLM provider reaches 80% of its token limit, Chalie automatically summarises older turns into a condensed block so the conversation can continue without losing important context.

Finding older conversations:

• Click the Recall button (star icon in the header) to open a search modal. Type a query like "holiday booking" or "conversation about the project" — Chalie searches across your full history and pinned moments.
• You can also pin important information to long-term memory by saying "Remember this" during a conversation, making it retrievable at any time without scrolling.