If only for my own notes....
I am thinking to get around the binding to the loopback address I might start and use EventGhost and the Community app / driver to initiate the lighting effects. I would have preferred to build something, but in the end some notes on configuring the setup may be what I need to do.
I'm thinking if I can trigger an Event on the PC and then EventGhost makes local HTTP calls from my earlier posts, then that should do it.
Here's the EventGhost Community thread:
Here's a post on the EventGhost forum about making HTTP calls with a small Python script or commands.
http://www.eventghost.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8138
I'll post back when I have a chance to try it out. All I've done so far is install EventGhost and do some reading.
