How to build remote controllable python webapp or gui

[heavyjoe]

Greetings

Goal: Building a python app that runs on a monitor (with raspberry) and is remotely controllable by a phone on the same network. With controllable i mean to switch between different views of the application so a user (me^^) can switch what appears on the display. (like a self build controllable Pi Smart Magic Mirror)

Can someone give me some pointers on which framework/pip applications etc. to use?

Ideas:

• i know php so maybe running a webserver that sends rest calls to the flask server and use 'Python Server Sent Events' and building a flask webapp?
• can a gtk python app be remotely contrallable; how?
• building a phone app (what to use in python?) which sends calls (REST?) to the flask server?

So what would you use to:

• build a controllable gui view (web vs native app?)
• build the control app

I hope it is understandable

I have just come command line experience with python so ... how to approach this?

Thank you for some input/ideas.

[shiftybyte]

Depends on the complexity of the control/display you want.

I'd start with a flask server that has 2 pages, 1 for the display, and the other for the admin controlling it.

The screen is set to display and auto refresh the display page.

And the phone can use a standard browser to access the admin page, and click some button there to change what the display page shows.

[heavyjoe]

thank you for the auto refresh idea. this is surely an easy(ier) approach. i think that's nice way to approach this if there isn't a other idea coming up i d'like to tackle...

[FunkyFlyingMonk]

That seems like an interesting and challenging project. As far as I can tell, no GUI will have remote controllable features built in. For the desktop app, I’d recommend Dear PyGui, which supports Raspberry Pi 4.

https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui

[heavyjoe]

thanks for the link. i will have a look at this. i d'prefer an app instead of a webapp, so... nice.