Switching embedding model makes localrecall stop working with key error

[johndev168]

I'm using LocalRecall from sources with the latest upstream 03f36d6 on Mac T8132 MacOS 15.5

It does work fine when using the default embedding model granite-embedding-107m-multilingual but as soon as I switch to another model it starts failing. I tried to use qwen3-embedding-8b and after re-running localrecall it stops working when uploading a file with the following error:

"ERROR","msg":"Failed to store file","!BADKEY":"failed to store file: couldn't add document '101': couldn't create embedding of document: error getting keys: error, status code: 500, status: 500 Internal Server Error, message: rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = Input content cannot be empty","source":{"filename":"/******/localrecall/routes.go","lineno":247}}

When searching the vector stores the same error gets thrown:

{"error":"Failed to search collection: couldn't create embedding of query: error getting keys: error, status code: 500, status: 500 Internal Server Error, message: rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = Input content cannot be empty"}

Afaik the qwen model should do the same as the granite one. I tried switching to it because the granite model produces very inaccurate results for me in German. I thought a larger model could probably do better finding the right embeddings to my queries. Regardless of that, I think localrecall should work with the qwen embedding model if it's available in localai so I opened this issue.

Switching back to granite model makes localrecall work fine.

[Hello-World-Traveler]

#6 already using granite-embedding-107m-multilingual