Flask internet of things app

About

Just an example of a web application for the Internet of things made with Python and Flask framework.

You could check the complete post about this example here.

Original author

Iván González, a.k.a dreamingechoes

Things you will need

• A Raspberry Pi with Raspbian loaded.
• Some sensors/leds/whatever to play with.

Here you have the schema of the things used on this example:

Usage

Be sure that your Raspberry Pi has the RPi.GPIO library installed:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ apt-get update
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ apt-get install python-rpi.gpio python3-rpi.gpio

or using pip:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ pip install RPi.GPIO

And then install Flask by executing:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ pip install Flask

In the user folder on your Raspberry Pi (or wherever you want), clone this repo:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ git clone [email protected]:dreamingechoes/flask-internet-of-things-app.git

Wired all the things properly, and then execute the web application by typing:

pi@raspberrypi:~/flask-internet-of-things-app $ python main.py

And then go to your web browser and enters the URL http://your-raspberrypi-ip:5000 you'll see what is going on.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

License

Flask internet of things app is released under the MIT License.