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Raphael gets threading for a flask web server 2024-09-07
The goal of today’s development session was to create a web source for Raphael bot’s closed captions. The existing solution created/updated labels in obs studio. The problem with using labels was that the formatting options were limited and if a sentence ran long, the label would run off the screen. After some trial and error with async / await and flask I ended up trying out the python3 threading module. Threading was exactly what I needed, although with flask running in a thread, you can’t debug it on the main Raphael process, but that is to be expected.

def listen_local(self):
        loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
        print("Firing off Flask")

        thread1 = threading.Thread(target=lambda: self.myWebServ.run(
            host=self.config_data["flask_host_ip"], port=self.config_data["flask_host_port"],
            use_reloader=False, debug=True), args=()).start()
        #self.myWebServ.run()
        self.myWebServ_up = True
        print("Listening to local Mic")
        thread2 = threading.Thread(loop.run_until_complete(self.basic_transcribe()))

        #loop.run_until_complete(self.basic_transcribe())
        #loop.run_until_complete(self.launch_flask_server())


        loop.close()