Openplotter app store?

[PaddyB]

We'll always need the sailoogs & seans to take care of the big boys stuff, but for smaller things we can all write good looking apps now. Been playing here with python & a few things, like auto recording weatherfax from a little usb HF receiver... 



Using vscode, the gemini app wrote every line, lots of pasting error messages back in along the way but it all works and is useful, importantly doing just one very specific task that nothing else out there can do. 

The world is different now, instead of hunting everywhere for some program do sort of do something we want a bit,  now we can get an Ai to write something very specific to do just what we want. Massive conceptual switch! And in many ways very decentralizing.   

For the "know a bit about coding and can cut n paste' like me writing nice apps isn't really limited to knowing code anymore, it's coming up with the ideas and being a bit obsessed and tenacious with some Ai.   

So what about an Openplotter "app store"? Where anyone who's written a handy little bit of code can send it to the app store for anyone else to install and use?  Works well in signalk, apps for everything in there... 

[PaddyB]

instant it's not! But little by little you can now create very specific code just telling Gemini what you want in plain language. And no doubt lots of other ways. Pretty sure nothing exists which will auto record wfax then let you fix the horizontal sync errors...

https://i.imgur.com/uPvC8yj.mp4

Also, as gqrx has a simple tcp control it will also record signal strength & save. Something very noisy was turned off at 9pm

https://imgur.com/K4glEHX https://imgur.com/K4glEHX


But how could little things like this be shared? Some sort of containerization? Hatlabs doing something - https://hatlabs.fi/posts/2025-10-27-halos/ 

https://imgur.com/K4glEHX https://imgur.com/K4glE

[PaddyB]

Looks like halpi uses this >
https://runtipi.io/

Anyone use this? Worth considering as an addition to openplotter?