Skip to main content

Cardshop Writer Host

Cardshop use writer hosts to download, write and ship SD-cards to recipient. A WriterHost is an always-running, always-connected computer connected to one or more USB SD-card readers.

Writer Hosts authenticate with the cardshop fetch tasks. The WriterHost operator is contacted (email) when an SD-card must be inserted, retrieved and shipped.

Requirements

  • always-on-capable computer
  • 500GB storage or more.
  • high-speed, direct, permanent connection to internet via ethernet.
  • one or more good-quality USB SD-card readers (Kingston)
  • A writer account on the cardshop.
  • An assigned port on the demo server (see maintenance).

Setup

  1. Install Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS server with default options (see below)
  • log-in and elevate as root (sudo su -)
  • set a password for root (passwd)
  • Make sure internet is working
  • download/copy your tunnel private key to /root/.ssh/tunnel (chmod 600)
  • download setup script curl -L -o /tmp/whost-setup https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kiwix/cardshop/master/whost/whost-setup
  • run the setup script chmod +x /tmp/whost-setup && REVERSE_SSH_PORT=XXX /tmp/whost-setup

Ubuntu Install

Just a regular, fresh Ubuntu-server install. Bellow are the defaults used for tests.

  1. Boot off the install media & select Install Ubuntu Server at grub prompt.
  • Select language (English)
  • Select Keyboard layout (English (US), English (US))
  • Select Install Ubuntu (not cloud instance)
  • Configure the network (eth via dhcp)
  • Proxy Address: none
  • Mirror Address: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu (pre-filled default)
  • Use an entire Disk
  • Choose disk to install to: selected disk
  • Summary: confirm and continue
  • Profile
  • name: maint
  • server name: whatever (bkored)
  • username: maint
  • password: maint
  • Import Identity: from github > rgaudin
  • Reboot now
  • Remove install media then ENTER

Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

whost-0.1.11.tar.gz (19.7 kB view details)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

If you're not sure about the file name format, learn more about wheel file names.

whost-0.1.11-py3-none-any.whl (55.4 kB view details)

Uploaded Python 3

File details

Details for the file whost-0.1.11.tar.gz.

File metadata

  • Download URL: whost-0.1.11.tar.gz
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 19.7 kB
  • Tags: Source
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: poetry/0.12.10 CPython/3.7.1 Darwin/18.2.0

File hashes

Hashes for whost-0.1.11.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 1162a5b23beb5dd42bc8a4569f1a8e429f3a39607976791d290d3c69fdcd423d
MD5 b6754792f4e4c4cd78bfa3c8c784645c
BLAKE2b-256 de9c2655fd32af027c3e65f3b319a29c40e931e221a5b8e9776aa13908a97085

See more details on using hashes here.

File details

Details for the file whost-0.1.11-py3-none-any.whl.

File metadata

  • Download URL: whost-0.1.11-py3-none-any.whl
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 55.4 kB
  • Tags: Python 3
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: poetry/0.12.10 CPython/3.7.1 Darwin/18.2.0

File hashes

Hashes for whost-0.1.11-py3-none-any.whl
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 3541af169a4576084c19aaf55f2fe678c55661d1096730cd4c0400a20e41c860
MD5 247dc18c1436da7f3fe43c2cd7f49999
BLAKE2b-256 e949835ad18cd908cbfb8381e290ba0d871f568d0d8f1655bdc5be8fb578c077

See more details on using hashes here.

Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

0.2

2 files

0.1.22

2 files

0.1.21

2 files

0.1.20

2 files

0.1.19

2 files

0.1.18

2 files

0.1.17

2 files

0.1.16

2 files

0.1.15

2 files

0.1.14

2 files

0.1.13

2 files

0.1.12

2 files

This release

0.1.11 This release

2 files

0.1.10

2 files

0.1.9

2 files

0.1.8

2 files

0.1.7

2 files

0.1.6

2 files

0.1.5

2 files

0.1.4

2 files

0.1.3

2 files

0.1.2

2 files

0.1.1

2 files

0.1.0

2 files

Anthropic, PBC Visionary sponsor Bloomberg Visionary sponsor Hudson River Trading Visionary sponsor Meta Visionary sponsor NVIDIA Visionary sponsor Microsoft Sustainability sponsor Depot Continuous Integration AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page