Make accessible in local network

[BryanDiLaura]

As things currently are, everything is happening on a single machine through localhost. It would be nice to be able to setup a machine on the local network (i.e. a raspberry pi/old computer) and have it permanently run the server, so it could be accessible more easily.

This should be scoped to just on the local network. Eventually it could be expanded to be over the internet.

[BryanDiLaura]

This seems to be a good solution:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7023052/configure-flask-dev-server-to-be-visible-across-the-network

This could work to have the computer have a consistent ip address:
https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/37920/how-do-i-set-up-networking-wifi-static-ip-address

[BryanDiLaura]

In order to get this to work, I did the following:

• Cloned the branch to the raspberry pi
• Made a static ip. This involved primarily adding an interface in the /etc/dhcpcd.conf file. Details here
• Modified the python script to listen on the proper port/static ip address.
• Made the script run on startup by adding sudo python /<path>/<to>/<dir>/playlistChanger.py & to the /etc/rc.local. More details here

[BryanDiLaura]

This isn't working on startup anymore...idk what is wrong!

[BryanDiLaura]

Using nohup may be a way to fix this?
https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/9485/autostarting-program-with-rc-local-stuck-on-startup