Digilines connectivity

[cheapie]

It would be great if there was a way to monitor power supply and demand using Jeija's "digilines" mod. I do have something like this working here as a demonstration: https://github.com/cheapie/technic_digilines_interface

However, my solution is not optimal. I think that a better way to do this (above my skill level, unfortunately) would be to have a separate "interface" or "monitor" node, possibly as a separate mod in the Technic modpack.

I was talking with VanessaE about this, and she had the idea that the switching station could be made to do this (like I did) but using "Upgrade Slots" like the MV machines do. Technic could be made to soft-depend on digilines, and if digilines is present, certain nodes such as the switching station could have (for example) Luacontrollers placed in the upgrade slots to give them digilines communication capabilities.

[Desour]

I've planned to add some interaction with digilines for:

• [x] switching station
• [x] battery box
• [x] nuclear reactor (with digiline_remote)
• [x] forcefield generator
• [x] supply converter
• [ ] quarry
• [ ] normal machines: send a disable message so that it won't automatically start eg. to cook an item if it doesn't get a start signal or something like that

[Desour]

I've decided not to do anything with quarry since that makes no sense.

[numberZero]

I've decided not to do anything with quarry since that makes no sense.

Well, just imagined a robot that places quarries, configures them using digilines, waits for them to finish, digs and places in other place... ugh...

Seriously, I may name one thing that does make sense: a quarry might report when it finishes digging. Also it might report when it touches something non-diggable. It doesn’t need to be controlled via digilines, though.

[Desour]

You are totally right with both points. I'll re-add quarry to the list.