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Posted 27 March 2015 - 12:14 PM
I have a Mining Turtle setup, but its sometimes deep under the ground. And when I want to know at what percentage it is, i need to go find it.
Now I want to send this to a Computer. Is this possible?
I currently just have it displayed on the screen.
But I can't find out how I could sent this to the Computer.
Thanks in advance!
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Posted 27 March 2015 - 05:34 PM
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Posted 27 March 2015 - 09:30 PM
well you need to use a wireless turtle and attatch a wireless modem to your computer and then open the modem by using "rednet.open("modem_side")" then "rednet.send(ComId, "Message")" and use rednet.receive() to wait for a rednet messgae and then you can check what id it is from ex:
rednet.open("top")
rednet.open("top")
local depth = 50
while true do
rednet.send(45, depth)
end
Btw U can send strings variables and a raw string. Also rednet.receive returns id then message so use [ id, msg = rednet.receive() ]
Edited on 27 March 2015 - 08:31 PM
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Posted 28 March 2015 - 11:05 AM
Thanks,
but now I have set this up
Spoiler
p = peripheral.wrap("right")
range = 1000
rednet.open("back") --assuming modem is on top
local function receiveRednet()
local p1, p2 = rednet.receive()
return p2
end
local function checkForMessage()
event, player, message = os.pullEvent("chat") -- Now you got the event, which player, and which message.
if message == ("status") then
p.say(current, range, true, "Wood Turtle")
end
end
while true do
if receiveRednet() == true then
current = p2
end
print(current)
checkForMessage()
end
But I can't get it to work, its sending it to the computer (which runs the program above), but the computer doesn't do anything.
Any help?
EDIT: I know what's wrong; it keeps checking for messages. But I only want it to check for messages for a few seconds how can I do this?
Edited on 29 March 2015 - 01:09 PM
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Posted 30 March 2015 - 04:21 PM
Change your code to use a single event handling loop instead:
while true do
local event = {os.pullEvent()}
if event[1] == "chat" then
--# handle chat events
elseif event[1] == "rednet_message" then
--# handle rednet messages.
end
end
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Posted 29 April 2015 - 10:34 AM
Thanks, sorry for the late response.
Vacation etc. :D/>