send-ip 0.0.8

python package to send its own IP to another machine through ssh

Send IP

Python software to configure machines for sending their IP through ssh.

Installation

Run the following to install:

pip3 install send_ip

Usage

1. Edit the config.yaml file to match your destination. These fields will be used to scp into the target machine (user@ip:port using password pass to login).

user: target-user
ip: ip-address
pass: target-password
port: target-port #default port is usually 22 
remote-path: target-folder # this folder will be created under /home/user might create errors for not linux users
refresh-freq: 15 # minutes for cron-job

2. Use the pacakge functions, for example:

from send_ip.send_ip import *

info_file = create_info()
send_info(info_file)

You can save this into a send_ip_script.py and schedule this task to run automatically (see below)

Schedule task

Chron

Windows machines

Please refer to this example and file issues if having trouble.

For developers of send_ip

To install send_ip and tools needed for tests, you can install into a virtualenvironment like so:

pip install -e .[dev]

Known issues

For a Raspberry pi installation, you might face this issue:

          =============================DEBUG ASSISTANCE=============================
          If you are seeing a compilation error please try the following steps to
          successfully install bcrypt:
          1) Upgrade to the latest pip and try again. This will fix errors for most
             users. See: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/#upgrading-pip
          2) Ensure you have a recent Rust toolchain installed. bcrypt requires
             rustc >= 1.56.0.
      
          Python: 3.9.2
          platform: Linux-5.15.56-v7l+-armv7l-with-glibc2.31
          pip: n/a
          setuptools: 65.5.0
          setuptools_rust: 1.5.2
          rustc: n/a
          =============================DEBUG ASSISTANCE=============================
      

You might need:

sudo apt-get install build-essential cargo

You can also refer to this info in bcrypt.

You might also need to install or upgrade rustc

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh