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review: name the icon-only controls, and make two guards mean what they say
Acting on the review of #626.  No bugs; one suggestion and three nits.

The map's icon-only controls had no accessible name.  IconButton requires a
label by construction and AddToPlaylistButton supplies one, but the plain Button
and APIButton used for edit, delete and the catalog preview reached assistive tech
as unnamed buttons -- and my own Cypress fixtures carefully passed `aria-label`
on the same pattern while production did not, which is its own kind of tell.  All
four are named now, and named with the row's subject rather than the verb alone:
"Delete Water tank", not "Delete", because a table of pins otherwise offers a
screen reader a column of identical buttons.

A source guard holds that: it scans for controls that carry an icon and no label
text, and reports any without an `aria-label`.  Paired with a premise that it
found some, since a scanner matching nothing reads exactly like a clean file.

The Group guard asserted only that `<Group` appeared somewhere in the cell, which
would pass on an empty Group left beside the bare siblings it was meant to wrap.
It now checks that every control in the cell is inside the Group -- and the first
version of THAT was wrong too: it sliced from `<Group` to the end of the cell
rather than to `</Group>`, so controls after the closing tag still counted as
inside, and the empty-Group plant stayed green.  Slicing between the tags makes
it fail.

Coverage the review asked for: the Semantic size names the call sites actually
use (`small`, `big`, `huge`) rather than only the Mantine ones, since the
translation step was untested on the exact spellings that were broken; icon-only
buttons stay square while loading, when the glyph is replaced by a spinner sized
from the button's height; and `iconAfter`-only squares as well as `icon`-only.

On the size passthrough, which was flagged as the highest-risk change outside the
map: the buttons that grow are Settings' Shutdown and Reboot (`huge`, to 60px),
Settings' Upgrade and Save and Channels' Save (`big`, to 50px), and VideoPlayer's
Refresh (`large`, to 50px).  All six read as deliberate emphasis -- the two
biggest are the two destructive ones -- so they are left honoured rather than
re-broken at the call site.  `size='small'` resolves to `sm`, which is what the
accidental default already was, so the detail pages do not move.

1134 jest / 64 suites, 246 in ui-layout.cy.js, clean npm run build.
2026-08-08 18:05:50 -06:00
.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 review: name the icon-only controls, and make two guards mean what they say 2026-08-08 18:05:50 -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 test: check declared types, not just field names, and fix the three that were wrong 2026-08-08 18:05:08 -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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