How to go about writing an If Then Script

[aldi13]

Scenario:

I have a Macro setup that my 3 year old can activate by saying "I want to watch Micky Mouse."

The macro goes through the process of powering on TV > Receiver > Setting correct inputs > Opening Windows Media Center > Starting most recently recorded Micky Mouse TV show.

I want to build in some logic to the equation so that If the receiver is already powered on then a different macro runs that only starts the appropriate show instead of running all the beginning power on tasks.

My Onkyo receiver uses ISCP so I can run PWRQSTN via ISCP and determine the Powered On state. How can I build this into a variable of sorts and then execute the appropriate Macro based in the results of PWRQSTN?

If anyone could help me with the starting points of a script it would be most helpful as my programming experience is pretty limited.

[kkl]

I'm sure there are much better examples, but here is a post of how I figured it out.

[aldi13]

Ok this is helpful. I am still a bit confused how I would call the ISCP command "PWRQSTN" and then set the variable via script. I can call the PWRQSTN now using the ISCP plugin but not sure how I write out the result to a variable.

[kkl]

I'm not familiar with Onkyo. I assume that you would use the OnkyoISCP plugin.

[blaher]

This sort of thing should do the trick:

[aldi13]

Thanks so much for taking the time to put that together. I understand what I need to do now. Thanks for your help.

[blaher]

You're welcome. I was intrigued by kkl's method, so here's another way. I thought I may as well share my fiddling.
I'm not sure which is the cleanest, but both seem to work.

[kkl]

blaher:
REALLY good stuff. Thanks for sharing.

[aldi13]

Thanks a million to you both. You have really helped boost my knowledge on how I can work with a variable. I will be using this across many different scenarios. Much thanks.