so for a high school project i have to show something with code for an app, the idea is that you send a "yes" or "no" to a phone number and a screen in the computer would go green or red respectively first there's the twilio phone number, then there's the code, that i got from ai cuz even though i wanna be a programmer rn i have no idea what im doing(most of this is ai), then i connected it to ngrok which is connected to a python code, everything looks fine, or im not exactly finding any errors but i send a message to the phone number and i just get an error, neither twilio, the code, or ngrok sees it, i dont know whats wrong and i need to finish this for friday so im pretty stressed abt it here's the code: from flask import Flask, request app = Flask(__name__) # Default background color screen_color = "white" @app.route("/", methods=["GET"]) def home(): """Displays the webpage showing the current route status.""" return f""" <html> <head> <title>Route Status</title> </head> <body style='background-color: {screen_color}; text-align: center; font-size: 24px;'> <h1>Hiking Route Status</h1> <p>Current Status: {"OPEN" if screen_color == "green" else "CLOSED"}</p> </body> </html> """ @app.route("/sms", methods=["POST"]) def receive_sms(): """Handles incoming SMS from Twilio and updates the background color.""" global screen_color # Read SMS body from Twilio message_body = request.form.get("Body", "").strip().lower() print("Received SMS body:", message_body) # Update the screen color based on message if message_body in ["yes", "true", "open", "y"]: screen_color = "green" elif message_body in ["no", "false", "closed", "n"]: screen_color = "red" return "Status Updated", 200 if __name__ == "__main__": app.run(port=5000, debug=True) and here's the details of the twilio number: enter image description here if there is anything else you need to know just ask of course Continue reading...
