Last time I updated it was closer to 120GB but if you’re not sweating 100 GB then an extra 20 isn’t going to bother anyone these days.
Also, thanks for reminding me that I need to check my dates and update.
EDIT: you can also easily configure a SBC like a Raspberry Pi (or any of the clones) that will boot, set the Wi-Fi to access point mode, and serve kiwix as a website that anyone (on the local AP wifi network) can connect to and query… And it’ll run off a USB battery pack. I have one kicking around the house somewhere
That’s a good question (and good idea) that I hadn’t really thought about past a collection of ZIMs. The one I built advertises it’s own AP SSID that anyone can connect to and then access the ZIMs that are served via kiwix-serve on HTTP/80. That is, I wanted a single, low power, headless device that multiple people could use simultaneously via wifi and browser rather than a personal device.
I hadn’t really thought about other helpful services past that. I mean, we’ve got a (wee) server so why not use it? I like the idea of OSM and their website is open source but has a lot of dependencies :
openstreetmap-website is a Ruby on Rails application that uses PostgreSQL as its database, and has a large number of dependencies for installation
A fully-functional openstreetmap-website installation depends on other services, including map tile servers and geocoding services, that are provided by other software. The default installation uses publicly-available services to help with development and testing.
I wonder how hard it would be to host everything it needs locally/offline… and what that would do to power consumption : )
Thanks for the idea - something to look into, for sure.
I might beat you to it. I’ve got Kiwix running in docker, just did a PR to the kiwix-zim-updater so it can run in Docker on a cron schedule next to the server, and have spun those up with Karakeep (self-hosted web archive I use for bookmarking).
Right now I’m adding a ZIM list feature to the updater to list available ZIMs by language, and then I’ll move on to OSM.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah also if you make a Zim wiki or convert a website into Zim then you can run that stuff too. If you use Emacs it’s easy to convert some pages to wikitext for Zim too
I wonder if there’s anyways to edit these files afterwards? They tend to be read only, right? I must confess, I don’t have too much experience with this myself.
For wikipedia you’ll want to use Kiwix. A full backup of wikipedia is only like 100GB, and I think that includes pictures too.
You can also offline the whole of Project Gutenberg with Kiwix, it’s about 70GB IIRC.
120GB not including Wikimedia 😉
Also, I wish they included OSM maps, not just the wiki.
You can easily download planet.osm, I think it’s a couple of TB for the compressed file.
Last time I updated it was closer to 120GB but if you’re not sweating 100 GB then an extra 20 isn’t going to bother anyone these days.
Also, thanks for reminding me that I need to check my dates and update.
EDIT: you can also easily configure a SBC like a Raspberry Pi (or any of the clones) that will boot, set the Wi-Fi to access point mode, and serve kiwix as a website that anyone (on the local AP wifi network) can connect to and query… And it’ll run off a USB battery pack. I have one kicking around the house somewhere
Do you recommend adding anything else to it?
For instance, OSM maps?
I’ve been thinking about running the Kiwix app + OSMAnd on an old Android phone and auto updating it once a year.
That’s a good question (and good idea) that I hadn’t really thought about past a collection of ZIMs. The one I built advertises it’s own AP SSID that anyone can connect to and then access the ZIMs that are served via
kiwix-serveon HTTP/80. That is, I wanted a single, low power, headless device that multiple people could use simultaneously via wifi and browser rather than a personal device.I hadn’t really thought about other helpful services past that. I mean, we’ve got a (wee) server so why not use it? I like the idea of OSM and their website is open source but has a lot of dependencies :
I wonder how hard it would be to host everything it needs locally/offline… and what that would do to power consumption : )
Thanks for the idea - something to look into, for sure.
I might beat you to it. I’ve got Kiwix running in docker, just did a PR to the
kiwix-zim-updaterso it can run in Docker on a cron schedule next to the server, and have spun those up with Karakeep (self-hosted web archive I use for bookmarking).Right now I’m adding a ZIM list feature to the updater to list available ZIMs by language, and then I’ll move on to OSM.
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.
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.
What other services are you running?
@[email protected] asked what else I was running in a sibling comment to yours and I didn’t have an answer because I’m not… yet : )
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:
For “admin side” stuff:
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.
Yeah also if you make a Zim wiki or convert a website into Zim then you can run that stuff too. If you use Emacs it’s easy to convert some pages to wikitext for Zim too
I wonder if there’s anyways to edit these files afterwards? They tend to be read only, right? I must confess, I don’t have too much experience with this myself.
It’s probably hundreds of thousands of HTML files, no? What is the fear about being able to edit or not?