[David Rawlins]

Hi Andrew

As I’m going through the courses, I find I quite often need to stop and restart my colab session to add or change something and it’s tedious waiting for the restart to finish. I could load everything every time but it would be helpful in the intro to each section if you could list the resources needed for that section, particularly the checkpoint models and control net models but also any loras, embeddings or new extensions.

Hope that’s helpful

[Zandebar]

Hello All

Andrew: I must 2nd David’s post, as I was having problems moving from a local install to Colab where I needed to know which assets were needed for a Colab session.

 

I suggest you have a quick look up of what’s needed for the completion of course 1-4 on each course at the start. As in course X you need these addon’s installed to be able to complete this course, list what’s needed, then you can check these off on the Colab install to ensure its all correct.

https://stable-diffusion-art.com/forums/topic/getting-colab-automatic1111-working-for-the-first-time/

I Suggested at the start of each Course, maybe a more granular per section of the course, I also have trouble knowing which models you are using for your examples. You mostly sat which ones but there has been a good few time where you haven’t. I just used one in my list to get past that point, I think David is quite right in suggesting what he did.

Something like: Assets needed for course and then per section assets needed for section.

Being new to Colab and it’s UI the would for me be a great benefit, until I get used to using the web app on an online server.

 

Your response to my suggestion was:

Thanks for the suggestions.

When I wrote the course, I tried to keep it agnostic to how to use A1111 (local/colab/online service). So I didn’t write much about instructions specific to the Colab notebook. I will add them to lessons that require additional extensions.

 

I see where you are coming from, but that doesn’t help when you do a course over multiple days and need to get setup each time for that course. The local install is less important as you set things up along the way, so on that front I’ve not had an issue. The issue raised is Colab whereby you have to setup the installation each time you start the service. So multiple days (on course) or having to restart Colab as David pointed out to add assets which you didn’t think you needed at start, doesn’t help the student.

Am I right in saying that the amount of assets which get loaded up into your Colab session affects your compute credits. So needlessly having to restart a session to add assets, has a counter affect on your compute credits?

I’ve had Colab now for 2-3 weeks and I’ve avoided using Colab vs local install, because I don’t know which assets to add in the Colab session for the course. The local install just picks up where you last left off in that section of the course, but Colab doesn’t do that. Out of my 100 compute credits I’ve only used 15 and that was just playing around with the Colab setup.

 

In my view David is quite CORRECT  in pointing this out.

[Andrew]

Agreed. I will add the relevant info to the course.

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