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How can I make a completely offline version of this?

Open nevergone opened this issue 1 month ago • 3 comments

I teach children in a place where the internet connection is very unstable. We can't install anything on the computers. That's why I want to put together a completely offline version of this that would run on my computer and be used by the kids.

I've gotten this far, but the final version doesn't work properly for some reason: https://github.com/nevergone/microbit-makecode-editor/blob/master/Dockerfile https://hub.docker.com/r/nevergone/microbit-makecode-editor

I get error messages like this:

"The hex file is not available, please connect to internet and try again." "Error fetching hex info from bundled hex cache" "Error: cannot find any drives to deploy to"

Thanks!

nevergone avatar Dec 08 '25 21:12 nevergone

Hello. Have you tried using the offline app? https://makecode.microbit.org/offline-app

Jaqster avatar Dec 08 '25 21:12 Jaqster

We can't install it and the computers use Linux. So I tried running it on my computer with Docker and having the kids connect to it.

nevergone avatar Dec 08 '25 21:12 nevergone

Is this some kind of secret?

nevergone avatar Dec 15 '25 00:12 nevergone

Related? https://forum.makecode.com/t/hex-generation-error-when-using-https-on-a-local-server/40514

martinwork avatar Dec 15 '25 14:12 martinwork

Not a secret, this just isn't an officially supported scenario for us.

Jaqster avatar Dec 15 '25 16:12 Jaqster