access second argument of url string

[Fiasco]

http://192.168.2.103/index.html?volumeZ1&1b

volumez1 is the event and the above appears like this in eventghost

HTTP.volumeZ1 [u'1b']

How do I access the 1b argument to pass it to a plugin command.

[Bartman]

This is the payload of the event. use eg.event.payload in a macro. Since the payload is a list in this case you have to use eg.event.payload[0]

[Fiasco]

do I have to put it in curly brackets or anything? The variable I always end up getting is the string literal eg.event.payload[0]

[Bartman]

That's right. Curly braces trigger the evaluating mechanism of EG.

[Fiasco]

also, within a plugin script how can I test to see if eg.event exists without throwing a NoneType error when it doesnt?

[Bartman]

also, within a plugin script how can I test to see if eg.event exists without throwing a NoneType error when it doesnt?

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if eg.event:
    #do your stuff

[Fiasco]

That's right. Curly braces trigger the evaluating mechanism of EG.

I've got my onkyo macros on the right screen of eventghost.

I tried putting {eg.event.payload[0]} as the argument to the macro but within the script I end up with a string literal of {eg.event.payload[0]}

[Bartman]

call eg.ParseString to evalute the input