I have a Panasonic vt25 series plasma that I am trying to get the power status from. I have a tsu9600 and a rfx9600 that are set up connected with a serial connection to my tv. the command sent to the tv is \x02QPW\x03. When i send the command i can get a response of QPW:1 when i just have the response displayed on a pannel. I know the 1 is the power status of the tv which is on. so i am getting a response back but i need to use the status as a condition for a button response but it wont work. i cant even change the response on the pannel using a switch statement or if statement because i think the colon in the response is messing it up so how can i parse the response to only keep the digit of 1 or 0. any help would be greatly appriciated. iv been working on this for about a week or so with no luck.

This is the code i am using that is not working

var tvstaWidget = page("GAME1").widget("TVSTA");
var e = CF.extender[1];
var s = e.serial[1];
s.bitrate = 9600
s.databits = 8
s.parity = 0; // None
s.stopbits = 1;
tvsta = s.match("\x02QPW\x03", "\x03", 250);
while ( tvsta.substring( 0 ) > "9" )
tvsta = tvsta.substring( 1 );
if (tvsta == 1) {
tvstaWidget.label = "ON";
} else {
tvstaWidget.label = "OFF";
}

i found some code that works on this site lol go figure iv been searching for over a week then i come across it as soon as i create a thread.