[ANSWERED] getting vera device status

if this question is in the wrong place, I apologize.

I'm trying to get the status of a virtual device from vera and set an indigo variable with it.

this command:

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http://192.168.2.140:3480/data_request?id=lu_variableget&DeviceNum=15&serviceId=urn:upnp-org:serviceId:VSwitch1&Variable=Status

...entered in a browser from my mac works. It returns a 1 for on, a 0 for off.

Can anyone point me in a direction of how to script this command to periodically check the status of this device AND put the result in an indigo variable?

Thanks.

Probably sloppy as hell, but the following works.

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import urllib2
import simplejson
var1 = urllib2.urlopen('http://192.168.2.140:3480/data_request?id=lu_variableget&DeviceNum=15&serviceId=urn:upnp-org:serviceId:VSwitch1&Variable=Status')

var2 = var1.read()


indigo.variable.updateValue(1331605932, value=str(var2))

[jay (support)]

[MODERATOR NOTE] Moved to a more appropriate forum.