techwithjake

Saw your comment on mine and finally saw this one.

I’m gonna take a look at openstreetmap-tile-server and see about running that since if all has gone to shit, who knows if GPS will work. Least it’s almost like a paper map and can be auto-updated as long as we still have internet. Quick Gist someone wrote here.

DietPi makes it dead simple to run most of these things as their “software suite” is pretty robust and simple to setup.

For “user facing” applications:

• Homer Dashboard as the landing page when going to the .local address in a browser
• Kiwix for the ZIMs
• Hedgedoc for personal note taking/wiki
• Lychee photos for a very lightweight photo album maker/viewer for keepsake photos.

For “admin side” stuff:

• Portainer to manage the containers/stacks
• Watchtower to auto-update the containers while they’re still network connected
• Transmission daemonized to download and seed the ZIMs or anything else non-pirate related
• Use jojo2357’s ZIM updater to auto-update ZIMs via cron job while they’re still network connected
• DietPi-Dashboard as an all-in-one dashboard to monitor and control the RPi from a web interface. (Yeah I know I can do everything SSH’ing in but I’m lazy.)
• File Browser just in case I want other people to have access to files but since it’s in maintenance mode and I’m unsure I want others to have access, might strip it out

I try to use containers from LinuxServer.io whenever possible. Mostly just cause it’s what I do on my main server.

I’m still looking at adding/removing things as I get more time to sit down but I’m pretty happy with it’s current state.

Cause if ya wanna go overboard like I did, 1TB of NVME storage, can add with SD Card if necessary. 16GB RAM. Very little learning curve for my part as I use SBCs often. Plus almost every Docker container and program I want works on RPi without any hassle.

There’s also more robust guides and community for RPi.

Just my thoughts.

Pretty much what Sinthesis said; USB power brick and/or solar panels. Both at the ready and tested. Also got a big ass battery backup that will charge off solar panels.

Just built one of these myself. I went NVME M.2 instead of SD Card to avoid data corruption. I know SD Cards are fine if you don’t write to them a lot but if you wanna update or add your own stuff, scares me. Plus NVME is just so much faster.

Just built one of those using Dietpi as the OS and NVME M.2 for the storage. I have many different ZIMs and running different services and only using about 270GB.

Works great for offline use. Probably should add an ISO or 2 as well.