lights on a timer

[Jimbo Swaggins]

gas prices these days our lights should only kick on at night and shut off auto in the mourning would be awesome

[Son Of Mowgef]

I was just thinking today that would be a great idea, maybe the devs can introduce a daylight sensor that we can attach to the lights themselves that turn it off automatically at dawn and on again at dusk. The remote code panel thingy will have to do for now I guess.

[Nightmare]

I've been thinking the same, some Minecraft-like daylight sensors would be pretty awesome.

[SinisterAce]

Attach everything to a keypad and do it that way.

[Klingenmeister]

Originally posted by SinisterAce:

Attach everything to a keypad and do it that way.

How do keypads work? How do I attach something to it?

[magickmynd]

Originally posted by Klingenmeister:

Originally posted by SinisterAce:

Attach everything to a keypad and do it that way.

How do keypads work? How do I attach something to it?

You simply hook everything up as you normally would and then set a pin code on the things you want to control. Lights, doors, turrets, windows, etc can be pin coded. Then you make sure you set up the keypad to receive power from the same generator that you have hooked all your lights up to. When you hold E over the keypad you get the option to either activate/open or deactivate/close pin coded devices. Choose either one and enter the pin code you set and you can turn things on/off or open/close them.

[magickmynd]

Originally posted by Heisenberg:

gas prices these days our lights should only kick on at night and shut off auto in the mourning would be awesome

That's fine if you just have lights, but generators run for one real life hour on a single gallon of gas, and you get five gallons of gas every time you get enough oil and hide to make it. Eventually when you get things like refrigerators, turrets and air conditioners you will want your generator running 24/7, so it won't really matter if you leave your lights on all the time then.

[Jimbo Swaggins]

yes for sure sensor makes the most sense glad im not alone in this though :)

[Jimbo Swaggins]

i have a separate generator for my lights specifically on my roof where i park my birds so lights make for an easy landing at night

[Jimbo Swaggins]

Originally posted by magickmynd:

Originally posted by Heisenberg:

gas prices these days our lights should only kick on at night and shut off auto in the mourning would be awesome

That's fine if you just have lights, but generators run for one real life hour on a single gallon of gas, and you get five gallons of gas every time you get enough oil and hide to make it. Eventually when you get things like refrigerators, turrets and air conditioners you will want your generator running 24/7, so it won't really matter if you leave your lights on all the time then.

i have a separate generator for my lights specifically on my roof where i park my birds so lights make for an easy landing at night

[Evir the Warrior]

Originally posted by Heisenberg:

i have a separate generator for my lights specifically on my roof where i park my birds so lights make for an easy landing at night

Seems rather silly to have a seperate generator for those, just run cables up and electrical boxes

[Jimbo Swaggins]

Originally posted by Evir the Warrior:

Originally posted by Heisenberg:

i have a separate generator for my lights specifically on my roof where i park my birds so lights make for an easy landing at night

Seems rather silly to have a seperate generator for those, just run cables up and electrical boxes

seems even more silly when your house is 4 stories