REDIS (json and search modules) requirepass causing errors

Question

When no password is set for redis, my webpage works fine, no errors in powershell, it adds keys just fine when i submit information from the website. As soon as i set a password, i start getting a ton of errors such as : SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data && URIError: URI malformed

Does it have something to do with how I'm setting up the .env.local? I use:

REDIS_URL = redis://192.168.1.157:6379 and it works fine, but when i set the password to "secret_password" and then do this: REDIS_URL = redis://default:[email protected]:6379 everything breaks. Am i not formatting it correctly? The password is correct since i can go into redis console and do AUTH.

As soon as i revert the REDIS_URL everything stars working again, so that is the only thing i can find. Additionally, the format of redis://username:password@host:port should work since i used it earlier with an official redis aws instance and it worked.

Any tips on what could be the problem and how to fix it would be appreciated. Thanks, Christian