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test: the component suite's twelve failures, none of them about the component
The cypress component suite has been failing 12 of 311 for long enough to read
as background noise.  Every one of them was the test's own fault, and four
distinct causes account for all twelve.

Dead selectors.  `div.ui.label.large`, `div.divider.text`, `.item` and
`have.attr 'error'` all named markup the old library rendered.  None of them
started failing when the library was replaced -- they went on matching nothing,
or looking for an attribute no control carries, which is the failure mode that
makes a test look broken rather than the code.  A tag chip is `.wrolpi-tag`, a
Select is a real input whose value can be read, an option carries the ARIA role,
and an invalid field says `aria-invalid`.  Both directions of that last one are
asserted by value: a valid field says `aria-invalid="false"` rather than
dropping the attribute, so `not.have.attr` would have passed on absence.

Missing context.  `useFileWorkerStatus` throws rather than defaulting when its
provider is absent, so the channel edit page died on a modal buried three levels
down while every other page mounted fine.  App.js wraps the whole app in that
provider; the mount helper now does too, with the poll slowed to a minute.

Unstubbed fetches.  The inventory page loads the food catalog from its own
endpoint, and the RSS edit form fetched downloaders before its intercept was
declared.  Both rejected with "Failed to fetch" out of an effect, which Cypress
counts as an uncaught application error and fails the running test on -- so
three inventory tests and one download test died for a reason unrelated to
anything they assert.

Assertions reading the wrong thing.  `cy.contains('Food Storage')` found the
hidden `.inventory-print` copy, since contains takes the deepest match and the
print sheet is mounted at all times.  And the PUT body arrives as a JSON string,
so `req.body.items` was undefined both in the reply the interceptor built and in
the assertion waiting on it.  The RSS submit test deep-equalled one exact JSON
string and broke the moment the video downloader gained eight settings the form
fills in by default; the envelope is still matched exactly and the settings are
checked for the values the fixture set.  It also never waited on its own alias,
so an interceptor that never ran would have passed in silence.

Separately, the navbar's shrink test read its link count in a bare `.then()`
right after the corner finished growing -- before the recalculation that growth
triggers had run, so `shrunken` was sometimes already the full count and the
assertion came out "expected 10 to be above 10" under load.  It now waits for
the bar to settle to one row, which is the same signal the test above it
asserts, and requires the "More" trigger to exist so it cannot pass having
measured a bar that never overflowed.

New: two tests for the file browser filter's width, desktop and phone, which is
what caught the dead selector behind it.

311 passing, 0 failing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.circleci ci: test on Python 3.13, the version every deployment actually runs 2026-08-08 18:05:43 -06:00
.github ci: raise the test timeout to 120s, and run controller tests on pull requests 2026-08-08 18:05:44 -06:00
.run Video downloads have many more options. Downloads are migrated. 2024-11-28 09:48:57 -07:00
alembic SQLite: make the browse pages index-only. 2026-07-14 07:46:29 -06:00
app test: the component suite's twelve failures, none of them about the component 2026-08-08 18:05:54 -06:00
controller build(deps): bump aiohttp from 3.14.1 to 3.14.3 (#633) 2026-08-08 16:33:19 -06:00
debian-live-config zim: ship a default fallback Zim and honor the configured Zim directory 2026-07-20 19:09:57 -06:00
docker fix: repair CI after the dependency bumps, and align it with the Trixie build (#651) 2026-08-08 18:01:52 -06:00
etc install: always install serve; resolve it via PATH in wrolpi-app 2026-07-23 18:21:58 -06:00
modules review: ffprobe out of the write transaction, and three tests that were watching nothing 2026-08-07 20:15:50 -06:00
pi-gen zim: ship a default fallback Zim and honor the configured Zim directory 2026-07-20 19:09:57 -06:00
release Retrying build image uploads multiple times before failing release attempt. 2026-06-11 19:46:31 -06:00
scripts install: always install serve; resolve it via PATH in wrolpi-app 2026-07-23 18:21:58 -06:00
test Modifying Video/Channel/RSS Downloaders so that they can download videos, but audio only. These audio files are grouped under their channel directories. 2026-04-14 15:33:01 -06:00
wrolpi ui: the last of Semantic UI, in name and in dead CSS 2026-08-08 18:05:54 -06:00
.coveragerc Adding coverage config which ignores non-API directories. 2024-10-16 18:56:03 -06:00
.dockerignore A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
.gitignore Remove stale Postgres references after SQLite cutover. 2026-07-18 13:28:54 -06:00
.gitmodules Adding FileGroup.published_date/author/etc. Creating script which converts a Singlefile to an Archive FileGroup files. 2023-10-23 18:09:08 -06:00
.gitpod.yml Postgres -> SQLite hard cutover: the database moves into the media directory. 2026-07-12 14:09:37 -06:00
.mcp.json.example Removing WROLPi admin functionality that is now in Controller. 2025-12-19 18:41:27 -07:00
alembic.ini Postgres -> SQLite hard cutover: the database moves into the media directory. 2026-07-12 14:09:37 -06:00
conftest.py Zim/Kiwix (Wikipedia) feature 2023-07-10 21:30:40 -06:00
demo_link.jpg Replacing demo image. 2023-01-30 13:27:26 -07:00
docker-compose.yml dev: stop the app container linting on every rebuild 2026-08-08 18:05:48 -06:00
help.sh help.sh: move DB integrity scan out of startup diagnostics 2026-07-22 19:47:35 -06:00
icon.ico A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
icon.png Zim/Kiwix (Wikipedia) feature 2023-07-10 21:30:40 -06:00
INSTALL.md Docs: recommend Raspberry Pi Imager instead of Etcher. 2026-07-03 18:58:54 -06:00
install.sh Disambiguate 'git checkout release' in install.sh 2026-06-27 13:57:27 -06:00
join_discord.png A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
LICENSE A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
main.py Postgres -> SQLite hard cutover: the database moves into the media directory. 2026-07-12 14:09:37 -06:00
pytest.ini ci: raise the test timeout to 120s, and run controller tests on pull requests 2026-08-08 18:05:44 -06:00
README.md Postgres -> SQLite hard cutover: the database moves into the media directory. 2026-07-12 14:09:37 -06:00
repair.sh repair: copy wrolpi/blobs into /opt/wrolpi-blobs on install and upgrade 2026-07-20 19:09:57 -06:00
requirements.txt build: require pytest-timeout, so a hung test fails instead of hanging CI 2026-08-08 18:05:08 -06:00
test_all.sh Creating test_all.sh script to run all frontend and backend tests. 2025-12-17 15:11:57 -07:00
UPGRADE.md Documenting WROLPi Portable USB, splitting install docs into INSTALL.md. 2026-05-28 21:33:22 -06:00
upgrade.sh Upgrade: mark the pinned GPG key trusted in the throwaway keyring. 2026-07-06 20:57:01 -06:00

WROLPi

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Create your own off-grid library.

WROLPi Logo

WROLPi is a self-contained collection of software to help you survive the world Without Rule of Law.

WROLPi is intended to be run on a Raspberry Pi with an optional external drive attached. It serves up it's own Wi-Fi network so that any user with a laptop/tablet/phone can connect and use the library created by the maintainer.

Table of Contents

Features

  • Videos
  • Web Archives
  • Maps
  • Wikipedia
  • File search
  • eBooks (EPUB / PDFs)
  • Wi-Fi Hotspot
  • Universal search
  • Food Inventory management
  • One-Time pad generator, encrypter/decrypter
  • Synchronizer/duplicator
  • Food storage calculator

Module features matrix

Module View Search Download Project
Videos yes yes yes yt-dlp
Web Archives yes yes yes Singlefile
Wikipedia yes yes yes Kiwix
eBooks yes yes planned EPUB/PDF
Map yes yes yes Protomaps
Podcasts/Audio yes planned planned

Demo

YouTube Demo Video

Download

Images are available at wrolpi.org

Try WROLPi!

You can try out WROLPi by running the docker containers.

  1. Install docker-ce and docker-compose
  2. Copy the latest WROLPi code.
    • git clone https://github.com/lrnselfreliance/wrolpi.git
  3. Change directory into the code base.
    • cd wrolpi
  4. Initialize git submodules
    • git submodule update --init
  5. Build the containers.
    • docker-compose build --parallel
  6. Create volumes.
    • docker volume create --name=openstreetmap-data
    • docker volume create --name=openstreetmap-rendered-tiles
  7. Initialize the database (SQLite in the media directory).
    • docker-compose run --rm api db upgrade
  8. Start the docker containers.
    • docker-compose up
  9. Browse to WROLPi.

More Docker documentation is available in docker/README.md

Install WROLPi

Full installation instructions are in INSTALL.md. Pick the option that matches your hardware:

  • WROLPi Portable (Live USB) — boot a complete WROLPi from a USB stick on any x86 PC or laptop. Nothing is installed to the computer; the first boot creates a persistence partition on the USB so your library, database, and configuration survive reboots.
  • Debian 12 — install WROLPi onto an x86 PC or laptop.
  • Raspberry Pi — install WROLPi onto a Raspberry Pi with an external drive.
  • Docker — run the WROLPi containers on an existing Linux host.

Charter

Guiding Principals

  1. Storage is cheaper than power.
  2. Two is one, one is none.
  3. Run silently.
  4. Primary, secondary, tertiary.
  5. Secure as a bookshelf in your home.

Physical properties

  1. A WROLPi instance should be capable of running with a minimal of hardware:
    • Raspberry Pi
    • SD card
    • External USB hard drive
    • Power supply and cables
    • Wi-Fi USER device such as a phone, tablet, or laptop.
  2. A WROLPi instance should consume a minimal amount of electricity during WROL event. It is expected power will be scarce when WROLPi is needed most.

User expectations

  1. A WROLPi instance should be run and maintained by a person (MAINTAINER) with a moderate amount of Linux and Raspberry Pi experience. It is expected that they should be able to do this using only the documentation on their WROLPi.

Software properties and capabilities

  1. A WROLPi instance should be able to "factory-reset" itself without any outside services.
  2. WROLPi should function completely without any internet services.
  3. A user should have easy access to their data if WROLPi fails:
    • For example, a user can watch their videos by navigating a short and intuitive directory structure and opening the video in their preferred video player.
  4. WROLPi should be self-documented. The UI should contain a tutorial for USERS as well as the MAINTAINER.
    • If the UI isn't functional, the code should be documented such that a user can restore functionality.
  5. WROLPi should favor pre-processing, rather than processing during a WROL event. Such as re-encoding a video, or processing captions. This is to ensure that when a user adds content during non-WROL time, the processing for optimum performance is already done for a WROL event.

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