Auto Reactor - Uranium Refilling + Ice Cooling

You should add that you use tekkit and ccsensors

Doyle3694, on 29 September 2012 - 01:52 PM said:

You should add that you use tekkit and ccsensors

Thanks, that's in the tutorial, but makes sense here.

Hey,

Love your script, but I get an error on my server complaining about "too long without a yield", have you come across it before?

Thanks

Also what are the rules exactly for making the script remember the reactor parameters?

Ie .. the ice to uranium ratio and all that

Is rebooting enough or does the reactor data file have to be deleted each time too?

About the "too long without a yield":
When I forgot to put a sleep inside while loops, that happened. Just to play safe, I just used the program again in my world and everything worked. In case I made some dumb mistake copying the files, I copied it again to pastebin. I know for sure it works on a server, I tested it myself on a server which isn't mine.
I also added a 1 second sleep that wont diminish efficiency and shouldn't really be necessary, but should at least stop it from freezing; if it does stop freezing, it may have something to do with not using Tekkit 3.1.2, or putting other stuff other than ice, re-enriched cells or near-depleted cells in the reactor.
Another reason this may be happening is because you missed some part of the construction? I didn't make the program resistant to missing the sensor controller, for instance.
-So try copying it again and tell me what happens!

About resetting the program:

noobbait, on 01 October 2012 - 08:49 PM said:

Also what are the rules exactly for making the script remember the reactor parameters?

Ie .. the ice to uranium ratio and all that

Is rebooting enough or does the reactor data file have to be deleted each time too?

So do you want it to remember? It should do that automatically, why to delete the reactor file (AR_reactors) if you want it to remember? Do you get pass the point where the monitor lits up with info?

Well,the script saves 2 files the first time you run the program, one is AR_reactors, and saves which reactors are to be monitored and the slots which must have ice for each of them. The other one is AR_params, and that saves the parameters. Both are saved to the disk. To reset, you have to delete both.
There's is no ice to uranium ratio, have you read it the written tutorial? Maybe it's too long and people just skip it, or maybe I forgot to put that in there?

Anyway thanks for the interest! I'm making a full video tutorial soon.

I initially messed up the construction, the wire leading out of the bottom to disable the bundled cable was coming out of my disk drive not the computer (doh!, they all look the same from the back :(/>/> anyways ever since I fixed that it started refilling properly and stuff. My only issue now is the occasional yielding issue. I'll try the new pastebin version and let you know.

I have a small suggestion as far as the main handler is concerned ..

throw in a term.restore() into the error handler at the bottom, this way when it crashes .. you can type on the small terminal :(/>/>

So anyways when I re-copied the script I diffed it before updating and there is a small change in the main loop where it sleep(1) ..

Altho I had it complain about yielding twice before I settled on a reboot ..

Maybe its sensitive to overloaded servers?

Would it be possible to use os.pullEvent in there somewhere? (does the sensor controller send out events when it updates?) they could be a good alternative to sleeping and I'm pretty sure those work a lot better for yielding (I've had a fancy rednet door system run forever without yield erroring)

Looking deeper .. even if the controller doesn't send events you could use os.startTimer to just wake up every X seconds instead of sleeping .. i think pullEvent is a lot more efficient than sleep and may avoid those issues.

Hmm .. and 5 minutes later its back to the same error ..

This is how sleep is implemented:

function sleep( _nTime )
  local timer = os.startTimer( _nTime )
  repeat
	local sEvent, param = os.pullEvent( "timer" )
  until param == timer
end

So there's no reason to manually use a timer.

Hmm .. so much for that idea .. so why would it complain about not yielding if it gets to sit on a pull event for 5 seconds at a time … ?

Interesting .. on a faster server its been behaving .. but I also peppered in a few sleep 0's in the main reactor update loops

noobbait, on 04 October 2012 - 05:07 PM said:

Interesting .. on a faster server its been behaving .. but I also peppered in a few sleep 0's in the main reactor update loops

What do you mean with sleep 0's ? I'm really interested in making this work for everyone.
Has anyone tried the world save? I would like to get feedback on that.
I also had the idea to:
-get rid of external timers, any ideas on how to implement them, so that I can turn off/on the virtual timers with a simple function call?
-add a external redstone control to turn automation on/off, so that you can allow people to activate the program without actually giving them access to the computer. That should be simple with some checks for off orders in the loops and events for turning on.

Hi great setup, 1 thing I think would help with the tutorial is if you add a list of all components used at the start, this would allow people to get all components ready

grazazel, on 28 November 2012 - 12:42 PM said:

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This only works on single player.

darn is there any work around for the sensors

grazazel, on 28 November 2012 - 10:28 PM said:

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Bunch of people working on it.

263: nil error. little help please lol s='Entry{name=\''..reactor.name..'\', target=\''..reactor.target..'\', sensor=\''..reactor.sensor..'\', size=\''..reactor.size..'\', pos=\''..reactor.pos..'\', ice_slots_start=\''..compress(reactor.ice_slots_start)..'\'}'

DragonT4, on 16 January 2013 - 12:27 AM said:

263: nil error. little help please lol s='Entry{name=\''..reactor.name..'\', target=\''..reactor.target..'\', sensor=\''..reactor.sensor..'\', size=\''..reactor.size..'\', pos=\''..reactor.pos..'\', ice_slots_start=\''..compress(reactor.ice_slots_start)..'\'}'

Sorry for the delay, I'm quite busy at the moment. Can you please post the full error? "nil error" isn't the full error, I'm sure. I'll try to fix it then.