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Get Hostname from webiopi


I have a webserver that does not have the PHP protocol. It only has HTML. (its a raspberry pi running webiopi) I do connect to this page via smartphone, but since there are many i do not 100% know to what raspberry i am connected because IP addresses change regularely. I need a way to display the HOST name of the pi (i mean the computer name) inside the page. Since html is static i can only think of Javascript, but Javascript is executed at client side so i have no idea how to get the host name of the raspberry.

Any ideas?

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will make clones of this rasp, thats the reason why it cant be hardcoded into html.


Solution

  • Doesn't webiopi use Python? Why can't you use that to put the dynamic hostname into the HTML?

    Go here for an idea of how to put your markup together: http://code.google.com/p/webiopi/wiki/CUSTOMIZE

    Go here for an example on how to grab the host info using python: How can I use Python to get the system hostname?