Stankless-Server

Server Logic for use with the Stankless TrashCAN

Setting Up Flask

You will need Python 3 to set up Flask properly. You may also need to install the Python 3 virtual environment package with sudo apt install python3-venv.

Set up a python virtual environment and activate it. After that, install Flask itself:

python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install flask

Specify the location of the flask app (the file server.py) and export it. To do this, open ~/.bashrc and add the following to the bottom of the file:

export FLASK_APP=path/to/server.py
source ~/.bashrc

Replacing path/to/server.py to wherever the actual file is. The flask server can now be run with flask run. To run on a public-facing server, run it with flask run --host=0.0.0.0

Prerequisites

You will need to install MySQLdb for python if you don't already have it installed. For Ubuntu:

sudo apt install python3-mysqldb