Realtime pipeline sub-models (llm/transcription/tts/vad/sound-detection)
were loaded via cl.LoadModelConfigFileByName without alias resolution,
unlike top-level API requests which resolve aliases in
core/http/middleware/request.go. So a pipeline that references an alias
(e.g. `pipeline.llm: default`, where `default` is an alias for a real
LLM) reached model loading as the alias stub with an empty Backend.
This was silently broken on a single host (it failed downstream) and a
hard error in distributed/p2p mode:
routing model : loading model default: ... installing backend on
node X: backend name is empty
Fix by routing every pipeline sub-model load through a small helper that
follows a single alias hop (mirroring the top-level resolution), so
non-alias sub-models behave identically and aliased ones get the
target's full config (Backend, Model, ...).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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