CLI can be called in offline mode without and API endpoint

[EvanKomp]

I was having trouble getting codecarbon monitor to work in an offline environment. It seems like OfflineEmissionsTracker is only accessible in the python api. I changed the main CLI script to allow the user to start an offline mode.

Side note, I also could not use codecarbon config in this environment - the second prompt, for the api endpoint gave me FiefAuthNotAuthenticatedError

The tool could be pretty useful for researchers using HPC clusters and submitting jobs for training/and or other non deep learning hgh compute jobs like simulations, if a clear offline CLI was available

[inimaz]

Hello @EvanKomp, thanks for using codecarbon!

there is the option of running codecarbon monitor --no-api that launches codecarbon in offline mode. Have you tried it/Does that not work for you?

[EvanKomp]

@inimaz It probably could with a few changes - when using the no-api flag it still uses the EmissionTracker class, which defaults to global emissions when it cannot figure out the geo metadata. A mechanism to explicitly pass a country/region would be helpful, like in the pull.

Even more ideal would be a way to configure for a particular energy mix. That may be too niche a problem. I am on a campus which is mostly solar and differs from my local grid, so being able to modify the config file to overwrite this somehow would be super.