Installing ComfyUI & ComfyUI Manager made easy!

hello everyone in this video I will show you how to install confy UI as well as the confy UI manager and then for Mac users Linux users or anyone who is having difficulty installing confy we show you a tool you can use to automate the process of installing confy UI so with one click you will be able to install confy UI all of its dependencies everything will be installed for you so open your favorite web browser and type in confy UI GitHub like this and most of the time the top link that will show up will be by comfy Anonymous and you it will tell you that we have comy UI click on the link this will take you to the GitHub repository if you scroll down you will see that there is an installing comy UI here click on it it will take you down to the installation guide for Windows users you have a direct direct link to download and for other operating system you will need to scroll down a little bit until you can see others then just look for your version and follow the instruction now like I mentioned if you're having difficulty following these instructions I will show you a simpler method that you can try as always there will be time stamps in the description below so you scroll back to where you have the direct link to download and click on it in some browsers the download will start automatically in my case it's asking me to save the file and you can click on save or save as just save it in the default location most of the time it will be in the downloads folder just wait for it to complete once it's completed open your file explorer and go into your downloads folder you can access the downloads folder by going into your start menu here and then just type in download you'll get file explorer you can click directly into file explorer and then select downloads or you can go into downloads here it will send you directly into the downloads folder you should see the confy UI Windows portable zip file select the file click on it once and at the top here you will get an option to extract all click on extract all you will get another window asking you where you want the files to be extracted in my case I'm going to leave it default just in the downloads folder and then I'm going to click on extract this process will take some time once the extraction process has completed you will get a folder conf UI Windows P table go into that folder and you may see another folder in it just go into that folder until you can see these files and two of them will have dot bat in at the end in order to run config UI you will use the run and Nvidia GPU dobat file if you have a GPU or if you do not have a GPU and you want to run it on CPU then you would use the runor cpu. bat file so you can double click on one of these two files to open and test if config UI is able to run this will open a terminal and you will see an output like this wait for it to complete and confy UI web browser interface will is start automatically if you see this web interface opens then it means that you are able to run confi and the first thing that you will see is that we have a load checkpoint here and it's asking for a checkpoint name at this stage we do not have any checkpoints so if you click on this refresh button here it will tell you that the checkpoint name is undefined basically we do not have any checkpoints open your browser once again and go to Civic ai.com and in here you can download different models for comy UI click on models at the top and if you scroll all the way to the top there will be a button filters and if you click on it you will see different type of filters to get started you want to look for models types checkpoint then you scroll down until you see the file format and then click on Save tensor under base model there are different types of model the SD 1.5 LCM will be the fastest SD 1.5 is where most people fine-tune the models so you will get a lot of variation if you choose SD 1.5 there's also sdxl turbo as well as SD XL lightning I'm going to choose SD 1.5 once you have all the filters selected it will reload the page you can click on any blank area to close the filters and then just select the model once the Page open you will see at the top that we have different version of that moral usually the latest version will be selected for you and then on this area there's a download button when you click on it it will give you the different options to download the file in this particular case there's only one option and telling us that it's the prune model fp16 and then the size of the file click on this it will start the download now in some cases if the model was strained on not save for work images it may ask you to sign in click on the sign in button at the top and then enter an email address will send you a code then you can log into the site to download the file now once you've downloaded the file it will look something like this it may also show as a white icon or a missing icon depending on your operating system just look for the save tenses file so if I arrange CH my files to show in detail view you can see that the file type is save tenses and it's also shows under types here right click on the file and select cut you can also press contrl X to cut then go into your confy UI folder where you have these two files the bat file double click on confy UI to enter that folder then look for in folder that says models go into it inside is where you're going to place your different checkpoints now the different type of checkpoint they each have their own specific folders the one that we are interested in just to get started is the checkpoints folder go into it and then paste the file here you can click on the paste button here or you can right click and select paste here once you have the file in this folder you can go back to the web Brer browser and then click on refresh you will see that it will automatically detect your model file and it will show there if you've copied multiple files you can click on on the file name directly and this will give you a drop- down list where you can select the individual models give it a test by clicking on the Q prompt button and you will see a green outline telling you that it's loading the checkpoint then it will go into the positive prompt negative FR latent image and then case ampop and if you see a green progress bar there then it means that com is running and generating an image you can also check the progress by going into your terminal and you will see the progress there once it's completed it will show the image in your save image node now next I will show you how to install confy UI manager so as you can see right now we do not have the manager once again go into your browser search for confy UI manager and look for this link I will also have all the links in the description below you can click directly on those links now once in the GitHub repository there will be a green code button there click on it and then you will get a copy button click on this copy button now go back to your terminal close the existing confi terminal then go into your file explorer at this point if you have the file explorer open you are probably in the checkpoints folder click on back once and then look for a folder that says custom nodes go enter it at the top where you have your address or the pack click on the address bar and then type in CMD press enter this will open a terminal type in get clone and then contrl V to paste you may have to do control shift V to paste or you can also type in the URL the GitHub repository URL press enter if you see an output like this it means that you are able to clone the comy UR manager but if it tells you that git is not a valid command or a similar type of error then go to your web browser type in git download choose the first one it should be g-s cm.com it will take you to get official page and then select your operating system in my case I'm going to select windows and then you will get a click here to download button again for me is asking me to save the file I'm going to click on Save in your case it may automatically start the download go back to your downloads folder and you should see get version number. exe double click on it it may ask you to give administrators right just accept click on yes and you will get the installer click on yes where you have your components leave everything default and click on next click on next for start menu folder default editor you can modify this if you want to you can go into this drop- down and select notepad or notepad++ whichever one you have click on next leave it as default click on next again click on next next next once again next again again next next next next next until you see this install button click on install and it will install git for you go back to the custom nodes folder type in CMD and type the get clone command once again and press enter this time you should be able to clone confy y manager once you have confi manager you can close out of this terminal and click on back until you go into confy y root folder where you have your run Nvidia _ jpu double click on it to inst start confi and the output this time should be slightly different it will tell you that there is a custom nude confy UI manager and it will install the dependencies required for comy UI manager give it some time let the installation complete and it will automatically start confy UI this time you will see that we have manager button present there you can click on it to get the confy Y manager menu you can use it to update confi to get the latest version you can install custom nodes or any other models that you require now for those of you who are on Mac or are having difficulty running comy UI with this method you can go to your browser and type in pinu the first link will be pinu do computer or just look for the link that says pin. computer click on it and will take you to the official website where it says install run control AI apps on your computer with one click you will get a download button click on the download button to download the application now in here it will ask you to select your operating system in my case I'm going to select windows but if you're on a different operating system click on the link and the download process will be the same you will get a page with a download button for your operating system and then below you will see different steps steps two in this case to unzip and then to install it so I'm going to download the file once it's downloaded will go back to my downloads folder select the file and then click on extract all do the same process click on EXT track wait for it to complete once it's completed you will get another folder PQ go into that folder and there will be a file PQ set up there double click on it again it may ask you for administrators right give it the access and in this case we get this Windows protected your prece and if I click on this more info it will tell me that the publisher is a known publisher this is a community made application and that is why it's not registered you can safely click on run anyway and this will install a pinu just wait for it to complete after a few minutes even if you do not see anything happen just leave it and after a few minutes you will see this window there next click on this visit discover page and it will bring you to verify Publishers where you have a search field you can type in any anything that you would like to and as you can see there are other application that you can test then just simply click on them and install them for now I'm going to search for confy UI so just type in confy UI and then one of the option is confy UI here click on it and you will get a download button click on download it will basically analyze your computer telling you what are the things which you require in order to run that application so in in this case telling me that installation required and these are all the dependencies for other application I need to install in order to run comy UI through Pino so just click on install here and leave it you may go out probably going to take 10 15 minutes to install everything once the installation has completed click on this home button and will take you back to where you have your application now in my case I cancel the installation because I already installed confy UI using the direct download link but if you got any errors or you had difficulty installing in that way do it this way and once you install confy UI using pinoc it will show up here you simply need to click on it to start confi and finally just test your confi installation so go back into the runor Nvidia GPU wait for confi to start and then type in your text prompt the model select the model from here and then click on the Q prompt here if you've done everything correctly you should see the green progress bar in the key sampler telling you that fui is generating an image and you will get your image as a save node there all right so I hope this video was helpful in helping some of you install confi and in case you were having difficulty check out Pinocchio to do the oneclick installation with that thank you for watching I will'll see you in the next video

Channel: Code Crafters Corner

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Keywords: comfyui, Code Crafters Corner, CodeCraftersCorner, ComfyUI, ComfyUI Manager, Installation Guide, AI Tools, Tech Tutorial, Pinokio, Mac Installation, Linux Installation, Windows Installation, Automated Installation, Simplified Installation

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Length: 16min 6sec (966 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 01 2024