I am trying to make a web application that accepts button clicks. The button clicked then sends a specific device, and operation code to the python application which then calls a irsend command using Lirc. This is based off of the source code/instructions from here:
https://github.com/slimjim777/web-irsend
http://randomtutor.blogspot.com/2013/01/web-based-ir-remote-on-raspberry-pi.html
The html for the button is simple and is in "Xbox.html"
<button onclick="clickedOp('Xbox', 'OnOff');"> Power </button>
This launches the js function:
<script>
function clickedOp(device_name, op) {
$.ajax({url:'/' + device_name + '/clicked/' + op});
}
I know that the function is firing on a click event because if i put an alert command in the clickedOp function the alert command runs
the python/flask app looks like this:
from flask import Flask
from flask import render_template
from flask import request, redirect, url_for
BASE_URL = ''
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route("/")
def menu():
return render_template('menu.html')
@app.route("/<device_name>")
def remote(device_name):
if device_name == "Xbox":
return render_template('Xbox.html')
@app.route("/<device_name>/clicked/<op>")
def clicked(device_id=None, op=None):
return render_template('test.html')
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run('0.0.0.0', port=80, debug=True)
All of the code up to the ajax request works. going to "/" loads the menu.html template and presents links to different devices, for instance
<a href="Xbox"> Xbox </a>
will route to
"/<device_name>"
in the python program and "Xbox.html" is loaded. Then the button loads and clicking it fires the "clickedOp(device_name, op)" function. This is where it breaks down. Even though the ajax request routes to
"/<device_name>/clicked/<op>"
the "test.html" page is not loaded
This is the case even though the Flask debugger says that there was a successful GET request(it returns 200) to "/Xbox/clicked/OnOff" (filling in the variables for the example above)
so any ideas why test.html is not being loaded from the ajax request, when it seems that in the source code/tutorial I provided he uses the same ajax method?
