Start python script via phone

[Dazzlock]

I don't know if this is the right place to post, but anyways. I'm trying to start a script on my raspberry pi, that will then start a stepper motor, via my phone.

 

If anyone has a solution, please share and have a nice day!

 

[August Garcia]

If the issue is how to get a set up a UI on your phone, one way that you could do this is to:

1. Set up a basic webpage with a button (and whatever other UI you want)
2. Then have that UI send requests to the Rasp Pi.

That would also let you run the script from any device with an internet connection.

[Dazzlock]

1 minute ago, August Garcia said:

If the issue is how to get a set up a UI on your phone, one way that you could do this is to:

1. Set up a basic webpage with a button (and whatever other UI you want)
2. Then have that UI send requests to the Rasp Pi.

That would also let you run the script from any device with an internet connection.

Hmm, yes that would work, but I should probably explain what I want a bit further. So when I set an alarm on my phone I have an app that returns a variable with the timestamp of that alarm. I want to automatically send that variable to my pi so that it knows when to start the motor that will roll up my blinds about 5 minutes before the alarm goes off. Would that work with the method you talked about?

[August Garcia]

If you don't need a UI, it would probably be easiest to look into how to send SSH commands from android/iOS/whatever you're using on your phone.

 

Pseudocode would be something like:

//  [Some Imports Here, Probably]
function alarm_app() {
  // Your current code
  return $some_time_stamp;
}
function main() {
  $timestamp = alarm_app();

  $user     = "john";
  $password = "mypassword";
  $host     = "192.168.100.23";
  $port     = 22;

  // Concatenate your timestamp into the command that you're running via SSH
  $command  = "sudo python start_motor.py " . $timestamp+(5*60);

  $ssh_session = start_session($user, $password, $host, $port);
  $ssh_session.send_command($command);
}

[Dazzlock]

4 minutes ago, August Garcia said:

If you don't need a UI, it would probably be easiest to look into how to send SSH commands from android/iOS/whatever you're using on your phone.

 

Pseudocode would be something like:

//  [Some Imports Here, Probably]
function alarm_app() {
  // Your current code
  return $some_time_stamp;
}
function main() {
  $timestamp = alarm_app();

  $user     = "john";
  $password = "mypassword";
  $host     = "192.168.100.23";
  $port     = 22;

  // Concatenate your timestamp into the command that you're running via SSH
  $command  = "sudo python start_motor.py " . $timestamp+(5*60);

  $ssh_session = start_session($user, $password, $host, $port);
  $ssh_session.send_command($command);
}

Thank you very much August Garcia! I will look into this.