PuppyProposer

How to propose marriage with a puppy, a phone, and a Web Socket.

1. Teach your pup to go to your partner on command.
2. Give your laptop a static IP. On OS X go to the TCP/IP tab in advanced network settings, choose DHCP with manual address, and pick an IP. This address should match STATIC_IP in prop.js.
3. Get your phone on the same wifi network as your laptop.
4. Run the Flask app: python server.py.
5. Navigate to prop.html on your phone. Chrome worked well for me.
6. Choose your voice in the dropdown menu. My puppy is a girl, so I chose a female voice.
7. Attach the phone to your puppy, making sure she's comfortable and the phone is secure.
8. Tell your puppy to go to your partner then sit in front of your laptop. Stay in a nearby room so you can hear their conversation.
9. Type a sentence into text_goes_here.txt. It will be sent down the Web Socket to the browser on your phone, which will speak it out loud.
10. Listen for your partner's reaction. Encourage your partner to talk to your puppy. Have a conversation that flows toward the topic of engagement.
11. Leave your laptop, find your partner, and propose.
12. Give your puppy a treat. She deserves it :-)

Technical Notes

OpenSSL deprecation makes it a little difficult to get this project running in a virtualenv. Instead, install dependencies outside a virtualenv with pip install -r requirements.txt, compile and link openssl, and install uwsgi with openssl awareness. The following were tested on OS X.

Compile and Link Openssl

cd /usr/local/src
sudo curl --remote-name https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.2l.tar.gz
sudo tar -xzvf openssl-1.0.2l.tar.gz
cd openssl-1.0.2l
sudo ./Configure darwin64-x86_64-cc --prefix=/usr/local/openssl-1.0.2l sharedmake depend
sudo make depend
sudo make
sudo make install
ln -s /usr/local/openssl-1.0.2l/bin/openssl /usr/local/bin/openssl
(close and open terminal)

Install uwsgi

CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" UWSGI_PROFILE_OVERRIDE=ssl=true pip install uwsgi -I --no-cache-dir

Non-technical Notes

Congrats Hamik and Vicky! - Garrett