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A web GUI for a Temperature Probe

mikedavis

I am relatively new to this, but it seems like I should be able to do this.

 

I have some python code that runs a temperature probe from my Raspberry Pi.  It works great and reports out temperature and time readings to a google spreadsheet using gspread. 

 

What I would like to do now is make a web page that I could run on a local server to do the same thing.  Instead of doing everything from the command prompt, I would like to go to any computer on my network, and start the temperature probe.

 

I am not sure where to begin with this project.  Is there a good tutorial or place to start for combining a python program with a web page?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks!

Mike Davis

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    Hi Mike,

     

    There is something known as AJAX, and in conjunction with a bit of HTML, a bit of JavaScript and possibly another language and a server technology, will allow you to achieve what you want. Therefore there are several pieces to the puzzle (it can't be done all in Python) but quite a few people on this site have implemented web interfaces to control their applications, everyone doing it in a slightly different way since there are many ways to skin a cat. You could check out some of those blog posts, they may help. But they may not be specific to the final application being in Python - it shouldn't matter.

    I think had some (might be BeagleBone Black instead of Raspberry Pi, but the principle is the same and all the same steps should work with a few tweaks perhaps) and I have some too. I did a raspberry pi christmas lights setup, that sent commands to a C program (not a Python program and not using AJAX though). There are plenty more examples on this site, but sadly I'm not sure which one is most Python-specific.

  • 0 in reply to shabaz

    Yeah, the steps are pretty much the same for any board.  Here's an example of how to run a program from a web page:

    BeagleBone Web Server - LED Blinking

    That should show you how to run a command from a web page.  This way you can execute the command line program that you already have from a web page (using PHP).

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    There are lots of ways to do this. Take a look at Nimbits http://www.nimbits.com/index.jsp  It does exactly what you want. You can record your data, get alerts, setup triggers etc. It's open source you can run it yourself or easier still, use the public cloud. There are a few examples using Arduino but I'm sure if you search you'll find some examples using a  pi. It should be very simple to setup.

     

    Good luck