Scrypted could restart the OpenVINO plugin on startup in offline/firewalled setups because CLIPProcessor.from_pretrained("openai/clip-vit-base-patch32") triggers HuggingFace Hub network checks/retries that exceed the plugin startup watchdog.
Update predict/clip.py to:
- Load the CLIP processor from the local HF cache first (local_files_only=True) so startup is fast/offline-safe.
- Refresh the processor cache online asynchronously in a background thread (asyncio.to_thread) so update checks don’t block startup.
- Add simple log prints to indicate cache load vs refresh success/failure.
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