diff --git a/invokeai/backend/install/model_install_backend.py b/invokeai/backend/install/model_install_backend.py
index 9224f5c8b2..9784aa0ac2 100644
--- a/invokeai/backend/install/model_install_backend.py
+++ b/invokeai/backend/install/model_install_backend.py
@@ -460,6 +460,12 @@ class ModelInstall(object):
             possible_conf = path.with_suffix(".yaml")
             if possible_conf.exists():
                 legacy_conf = str(self.relative_to_root(possible_conf))
+            else:
+                legacy_conf = Path(
+                    self.config.root_path,
+                    "configs/controlnet",
+                    ("cldm_v15.yaml" if info.base_type == BaseModelType("sd-1") else "cldm_v21.yaml"),
+                )
 
         if legacy_conf:
             attributes.update(dict(config=str(legacy_conf)))
diff --git a/invokeai/backend/model_management/models/controlnet.py b/invokeai/backend/model_management/models/controlnet.py
index 359df91a82..6a42b59fe1 100644
--- a/invokeai/backend/model_management/models/controlnet.py
+++ b/invokeai/backend/model_management/models/controlnet.py
@@ -132,13 +132,14 @@ def _convert_controlnet_ckpt_and_cache(
     model_path: str,
     output_path: str,
     base_model: BaseModelType,
-    model_config: ControlNetModel.CheckpointConfig,
+    model_config: str,
 ) -> str:
     """
     Convert the controlnet from checkpoint format to diffusers format,
     cache it to disk, and return Path to converted
     file. If already on disk then just returns Path.
     """
+    print(f"DEBUG: controlnet config = {model_config}")
     app_config = InvokeAIAppConfig.get_config()
     weights = app_config.root_path / model_path
     output_path = Path(output_path)
diff --git a/invokeai/configs/controlnet/cldm_v15.yaml b/invokeai/configs/controlnet/cldm_v15.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fde1825577
--- /dev/null
+++ b/invokeai/configs/controlnet/cldm_v15.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+model:
+  target: cldm.cldm.ControlLDM
+  params:
+    linear_start: 0.00085
+    linear_end: 0.0120
+    num_timesteps_cond: 1
+    log_every_t: 200
+    timesteps: 1000
+    first_stage_key: "jpg"
+    cond_stage_key: "txt"
+    control_key: "hint"
+    image_size: 64
+    channels: 4
+    cond_stage_trainable: false
+    conditioning_key: crossattn
+    monitor: val/loss_simple_ema
+    scale_factor: 0.18215
+    use_ema: False
+    only_mid_control: False
+
+    control_stage_config:
+      target: cldm.cldm.ControlNet
+      params:
+        image_size: 32 # unused
+        in_channels: 4
+        hint_channels: 3
+        model_channels: 320
+        attention_resolutions: [ 4, 2, 1 ]
+        num_res_blocks: 2
+        channel_mult: [ 1, 2, 4, 4 ]
+        num_heads: 8
+        use_spatial_transformer: True
+        transformer_depth: 1
+        context_dim: 768
+        use_checkpoint: True
+        legacy: False
+
+    unet_config:
+      target: cldm.cldm.ControlledUnetModel
+      params:
+        image_size: 32 # unused
+        in_channels: 4
+        out_channels: 4
+        model_channels: 320
+        attention_resolutions: [ 4, 2, 1 ]
+        num_res_blocks: 2
+        channel_mult: [ 1, 2, 4, 4 ]
+        num_heads: 8
+        use_spatial_transformer: True
+        transformer_depth: 1
+        context_dim: 768
+        use_checkpoint: True
+        legacy: False
+
+    first_stage_config:
+      target: ldm.models.autoencoder.AutoencoderKL
+      params:
+        embed_dim: 4
+        monitor: val/rec_loss
+        ddconfig:
+          double_z: true
+          z_channels: 4
+          resolution: 256
+          in_channels: 3
+          out_ch: 3
+          ch: 128
+          ch_mult:
+          - 1
+          - 2
+          - 4
+          - 4
+          num_res_blocks: 2
+          attn_resolutions: []
+          dropout: 0.0
+        lossconfig:
+          target: torch.nn.Identity
+
+    cond_stage_config:
+      target: ldm.modules.encoders.modules.FrozenCLIPEmbedder
diff --git a/invokeai/configs/controlnet/cldm_v21.yaml b/invokeai/configs/controlnet/cldm_v21.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fc65193647
--- /dev/null
+++ b/invokeai/configs/controlnet/cldm_v21.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+model:
+  target: cldm.cldm.ControlLDM
+  params:
+    linear_start: 0.00085
+    linear_end: 0.0120
+    num_timesteps_cond: 1
+    log_every_t: 200
+    timesteps: 1000
+    first_stage_key: "jpg"
+    cond_stage_key: "txt"
+    control_key: "hint"
+    image_size: 64
+    channels: 4
+    cond_stage_trainable: false
+    conditioning_key: crossattn
+    monitor: val/loss_simple_ema
+    scale_factor: 0.18215
+    use_ema: False
+    only_mid_control: False
+
+    control_stage_config:
+      target: cldm.cldm.ControlNet
+      params:
+        use_checkpoint: True
+        image_size: 32 # unused
+        in_channels: 4
+        hint_channels: 3
+        model_channels: 320
+        attention_resolutions: [ 4, 2, 1 ]
+        num_res_blocks: 2
+        channel_mult: [ 1, 2, 4, 4 ]
+        num_head_channels: 64 # need to fix for flash-attn
+        use_spatial_transformer: True
+        use_linear_in_transformer: True
+        transformer_depth: 1
+        context_dim: 1024
+        legacy: False
+
+    unet_config:
+      target: cldm.cldm.ControlledUnetModel
+      params:
+        use_checkpoint: True
+        image_size: 32 # unused
+        in_channels: 4
+        out_channels: 4
+        model_channels: 320
+        attention_resolutions: [ 4, 2, 1 ]
+        num_res_blocks: 2
+        channel_mult: [ 1, 2, 4, 4 ]
+        num_head_channels: 64 # need to fix for flash-attn
+        use_spatial_transformer: True
+        use_linear_in_transformer: True
+        transformer_depth: 1
+        context_dim: 1024
+        legacy: False
+
+    first_stage_config:
+      target: ldm.models.autoencoder.AutoencoderKL
+      params:
+        embed_dim: 4
+        monitor: val/rec_loss
+        ddconfig:
+          #attn_type: "vanilla-xformers"
+          double_z: true
+          z_channels: 4
+          resolution: 256
+          in_channels: 3
+          out_ch: 3
+          ch: 128
+          ch_mult:
+          - 1
+          - 2
+          - 4
+          - 4
+          num_res_blocks: 2
+          attn_resolutions: []
+          dropout: 0.0
+        lossconfig:
+          target: torch.nn.Identity
+
+    cond_stage_config:
+      target: ldm.modules.encoders.modules.FrozenOpenCLIPEmbedder
+      params:
+        freeze: True
+        layer: "penultimate"