Applied Energistics 1 - System Monitoring Program

Hi,

I've planned to create a program that will monitor my base's power and ME storage and display it to a monitor. From looking through the functions (with a modem connected to an ME controller), I found some interesting functions and saw some missing functions. So, I thought I'd Google around for a while and I couldn't find anything like what I'm after; so I thought I'd ask!

Firstly: I'm using FTB Monster V1.1.2 on MC 1.6.4.

Energy side:
So, from reading the functions available, I want to be able to add up all of the storage in my Thermal Expansion Energy Cells and report that to a screen - that alone is simple enough - but I'm wanting to have a separate figure for different groups of energy cells (I have two dedicated to my ME system as well as a room full of them). Is it possible to do that when all energy cells are connected through a modem?

That will then be outputted to a monitor with varying colours etc, but I know how to do that.



Applied Energistics side:
The main issue I'm having is that I can't seem to find a "getCurrentEnergyBeingUsed" type of function. There's a max and min, but they're not useful to me - and they don't seem to work. For getMaxMJReceived(<side>), I get "320" no matter what I put as the <side> argument and for min, I get "1". Is there a current usage one? And will it include energy used by subsystems?

The other thing I'd like to do is to monitor how much storage space there is in the system by the number of item types it's capable of storing and has remaining as well as the amount of bytes. However, the functions available are a little confusing with there being total, unused and remaining for both item types and bytes. Since I'm using partitioning, I guess this could be something to do with that, or is it simply for drives that are full of a single item, or both?



How would I go about building a system like this for monitoring TE power and ME item storage levels?
Is there a program hiding somewhere on this forum that someone knows about that could answer all of my questions?

Thanks!

xBlizzDevious, on 14 October 2014 - 01:05 AM said:

For getMaxMJReceived(<side>), I get "320" no matter what I put as the <side> argument and for min, I get "1".

In regards to this, the cells can be configured to only accept a certain amount of power - they'll take anything up to that value per tick, leaving excess power in the network for other devices which need it (this allows you to create bottlenecks in your power system, blocking power from "greedy" machines which would otherwise leave nothing for others). I'm guessing getMaxMJReceived is showing you this "maximum acceptable" figure instead of the maximum amount of power the cell has actually, um, received.