Powergraph - displays stored energy with a graph

• Designed for all monitors from 3*2 and bigger (like the one above). But smaller works.
• Advanced and normal monitor support.
• Supports energy storage blocks from several mods.
• The color of the graph can be changed (requires advanced monitor).
• Supports adding a one line name at the bottom, with no name added the bottom row will be used by the graph.
• Configurable update time.
• PowergraphMulti is designed for using several energy storages and monitors
• Set text scale / resolution for monitors - Fit more details on a small monitor or make it easier to read from far away!

• Screen size to not update automaticly, program restart required. (will probably not be implemented)

• Energy Cell (Thermal Expansion)
• Capacitor Bank (Ender IO)
• Energy Core (Draconic Evolution) (connect to an energy pylon)
• Batbox/MFE/MFSU (Industrial Craft 2) (Only with peripheral proxy from OpenPeripherals)
• Energy Cube and Induction storage (Mekanism)
• lv/mv/hv Capacitor (Immersive Engineering)
• Reactor and Turbine (Big Reactors)

• no currently known

  ------------- Configuration part ------------------

  -- Seconds between checking stored energy
  -- and updating monitors (default: 5)
local updateInterval = 5

-- Simple mode tries to scan for compatible storages and
-- wrap the first found one and the first found monitor
-- For more advanced configuration, set this to false and
-- and fill the dataTable below (example follows)
-- Default: true
local simpleMode = true

local dataTable = {

}

  -- help for how to fill dataTable:
--[[ add a comma at the end of all lines except the
  last one in all tables.
  "[required]" in front of a line means you need to
  have it or the program won't work, rows with
  "[optional]" are optional and can be left out.
  The following information can be added:

  [required] monitor = the side or network name
			of a monitor connected to the computer.
  [required] energy = the energy storage witch
			content should be displayed on the
			monitor defined above.
  [optional] text = a word or sentence that will
			be displayed at the bottom line on the
			monitor.
  [optional] blitColor = Will be ignored if its
			not a advanced monitor, specifies the
			color of the graph, see following link
			for help:
			http://www.computercraft.info/wiki/Colors_(API)#Colors
			allowed values are 0-9 and a-f,
			defaults to 5 (green)
  [optional] textSize = Sets how large the text is and
			how thick the graph line is.
			Needs to be between 0.5 and 5 and is in
			steps of 0.5. eg 0.5, 1, 1.5 ... 4.5, 5
			Default is 1. (5 is very large text)

	local Example = {
	  {
	  monitor = "monitor_1",	<-- comma
	  energy = "tile_blockcapacitorbank_name_0", <--comma
	  text = "ME Backup",	 <-- comma
	  blitColor = "5"	   <-- no comma, last line for this monitor-battery pair
	  },{		 <-- comma between braces, their are more monitor-battery pairs
	  monitor = "top",	  <-- comma
	  energy = "back",	<-- comma
	  textSize = 0.5		<-- no comma, last line in this pair
	  }	   <-- no comma, this was last pair
	}		 <-- closing the example table, no comma

  ]] -- (ignore this two brackets, they indicate
	 -- the end of this long multi-line comment)

------------- End of configuration part --------------------

augiteSoul, on 29 May 2016 - 02:53 PM said:

How do you set it? (with modems? monitors?)

  -- Seconds between checking stored energy
  -- and updating monitors (default: 5)
local updateInterval = 5

local dataTable = {
  {
	monitor = "top",
	energy = "tile_blockcapacitorbank_name_0",
	blitColor = "b"
  }
}
...

Stekeblad, on 30 May 2016 - 11:48 AM said:

augiteSoul, on 29 May 2016 - 02:53 PM said:

How do you set it? (with modems? monitors?)

You need a monitor to display the graph on and a energy storage to watch (tested with Thermal Expansion, Ender IO and Industrial Craft), you connect the energy storage and monitor to the computer by placing them next to the computer or using modems.

How you configure the program settings is in the spoilers in the first post and in the code.

Little example for PowergraphMulti
You have an advanced computer and monitor and want to monitor the energy in your Ender IO capacitor bank. The monitor is on top of the computer and the capacitor bank is connected to the computer using wired modems. Then you turn on the modem the bank gets a name displayed in your chat, something like tile_blockcapacitorbank_name_0
You like the color blue and want your graph to have that color.

The configuration will then look like this:

  -- Seconds between checking stored energy
  -- and updating monitors (default: 5)
local updateInterval = 5

local dataTable = {
  {
	monitor = "top",
	energy = "tile_blockcapacitorbank_name_0",
	blitColor = "b"
  }
}
...

Then you run PowergraphMulti for the first time it will see their is no configuration and open itself to be edited.

If you still don't understand, reply and I will try to help you.

TheRockettek, on 25 January 2017 - 07:22 AM said:

Well
You can do peripheral.getType() and I thought it returns like bigreators-reactor or -turbine