Connecting via EnderIO Redstone Conduits

Hi all

I'm trying to use the (lovely) EnderIO conduits to carry my energy, items, liquids and so on (run multiple conduits in one block!). There is an insulated redstone conduit that should work with computercraft apparently.

I want to connect two computers together, using the conduits instead of networking cable.

I'm wondering what I need to do?

The cables don't connect to wireless modems, so do I need to use the rs library instead (gulp?).

many thanks

strange

You could try using one of the really out of date Rednet APIs to try to get the bundled cable communications back, but that means either losing all of the nice features, or having to heavily edit the API, or both. The better solution is to use ComputerCraft's networking cable with a wired modem on each machine. What's wrong with the networking cable?

I hadn't heard that Ender IO had added support for ComputerCraft's bundled cable API, so if that's actually the case, it's good to hear.

Yup:

"We have had a very nice PR from Vexatos that adds Computer Craft support to the insulated redstone conduits. They now support the CC bundled cable API and you can control their colored signals from computers."

The great thing about the conduits is you can run lots of them in one block, which makes wiring everything together a lot easier!

strange

Yes, the wiring may be physically easier, but it's an infinite world and trying to use those instead of the actual networking cables will increase latency in the area as well as making the computers take much longer to send traffic via the network and will be harder to deal with in general. If you're dead-set on doing it that way, it's certainly possible, it's just not going to be as easy as you might like it to be.

That is definitely good to hear confirmation on! I'm glad CC has another option for bundled cables now.