Fine, fine. You asked for it, here it is. I hope you’re happy :)
I had to use GPT for the documentation and final spit-and-polish, because I had absolutely no intention of releasing this thing, let alone documenting it for wider consumption.
Ipso facto, for all the AI “Akshually” pedants, I’ve tagged this as AIP. Politely go fuck yourselves :)
Furthermore, here is the actual tale of the tape:
- Design - HUMAN
- Implementation - HUMAN
- Testing - BONE-FUCKING-CRUSHINGLY HUMAN
- Documentation - GENERATED
- Review - PAIR
A couple of notes:
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Remote access: outside the home, the nature of the beast means you need something like Tailscale to get back into your home lab. That’s a quirk I deliberately kept for the sake of simplicity, as the browser needs HTTPS for things like GPS/geolocation. The private Tailscale HTTPS path solves both problems neatly without me having to do shit.
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Portability: I didn’t build this for you; I built it for me. That said, I detangled the original home-lab-specific mess enough that you should be able to deploy it elsewhere.
The repo separates the application from the regional data bundle, and the documentation covers installation, other regions, routing, Wikipedia/Kiwix, Tailscale, updating and the various caveats.
In other words: it is now usable by other people (and immediately usable if you happen to live where I do), but you’ll need to do the work. Additionally, that should not be mistaken for me volunteering to become your unpaid support department :)
“Fork it, fix it or fuck it” - dealers choice :)
My biggest complaint is calling it “Pi” anything, there are already way too many things called “Pi”, some of which are for Raspberry Pi, some of which aren’t, and then there’s Pi itself (the number) it’s just an all-around confusing name and it sometimes makes related things incredibly difficult to search for and find.
Someone asked if I would do live turn by turn, voice navigation. Yes and yes…but not for a while / I’m sick of this thing for now.
I outlined in the other post of how I think it should be added ; if you’d like to give it a shot, have at it.

