Updated to temporary solution based on examples.

app.py

@@ -34,8 +34,10 @@ with st.sidebar:
     logger.info(f"Model changed to {model_choice}.")
     systemPrompt = st.radio("Designate a control persona:",options=["Model","Tutor"])
     st.session_state.systemPrompt = systemPrompt
+    liveExperience = st.checkbox("Check for live experience, currently impoeverished.")
+
 st.subheader(f"This experience is currently running on {st.session_state.model}.")
-st.warning("The experience is currently nonfunctional as I attempt to figure out how to expose the image URL to the HF inference API via streamlit...")
+
 # Initialize chat history
 if "messages" not in st.session_state:
     st.session_state.messages = []
@@ -45,18 +47,26 @@ for message in st.session_state.messages:
     with st.chat_message(message["role"]):
         st.markdown(message["content"])
 
+if liveExperience:
+    st.warning("The experience is currently nonfunctional as I attempt to figure out how to expose the image URL to the HF inference API via streamlit...")
+    enable = st.checkbox("Enable camera")
+    picture = st.camera_input("Take a picture of your math work", disabled=not enable)
 
-enable = st.checkbox("Enable camera")
-picture = st.camera_input("Take a picture of your math work", disabled=not enable)
-
-if picture is not None:
-    # Save the image to a temporary file
-    temp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
-    temp_image_path = os.path.join(temp_dir, "picture.png")
-    with open(temp_image_path, "wb") as f:
-        f.write(picture.getbuffer())
-    extIP = requests.get("https://ipv4.icanhazip.com").text + ":8501" 
-    img_url = f"http://{extIP}{temp_image_path}"
-    guidedMM(st.session_state.systemPrompt, img_url)
+    if picture is not None:
+        # Save the image to a temporary file
+        temp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+        temp_image_path = os.path.join(temp_dir, "picture.png")
+        with open(temp_image_path, "wb") as f:
+            f.write(picture.getbuffer())
+        extIP = requests.get("https://ipv4.icanhazip.com").text 
+        img_url = f"https://{extIP}:8501{temp_image_path}"
+        guidedMM(st.session_state.systemPrompt, img_url)
 else:
-    basicChat()
+    st.info("Please select an example image to understand the basic potential of the app while I try to figure out how to serve images correctly to the completions API.")
+    example = st.selectbox("Select an example image", options=["Example 1", "Example 2"])
+    if example == "Example 1":
+        img_url = "https://huggingface.co/spaces/butterswords/MM_Math_Helper/resolve/main/tempDir/example1.png"
+    elif example == "Example 2":
+        img_url = "https://huggingface.co/spaces/butterswords/MM_Math_Helper/resolve/main/tempDir/example2.png"
+    st.image(img_url)
+    guidedMM(st.session_state.systemPrompt, img_url)

tempDir/notice.md

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Notice. 
 
-This directory should remain empty. It's used to house temporary images for processing URLs because of the way the HF API works.
+This directory contains examples. It's a holdover from an attempt to house temporary images for processing URLs because of the way the HF API works (or doesn't) with streamlit images.