Is it possible to display the amount of items inside a chest on display panel?

[god bless you]

I can't figure out how to do this without mods.
It shouldn't be so stupid.
Is it possible to display the amount of items inside a chest on display panel?

[königplatzen]

Not directly, it seems:
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=117727

[god bless you]

good idea. display by each single digit.

[Fel]

It is possible, assuming you want 1 digit per display panel.
A bit needlessly complicated of course but doable.
For the first number (from the right), you only need to do %10 (modulo 10), then on the display panel compare that number with 0, 1 and so on up to 9 and display the image of that number if true.
For the second number, you first need to divide it by 10 before doing the %10, for the third you need to divide by 100 and so on.

As I said, needlessly complicated but funny enough not that big in terms of space since all of the comparisons are done in the display pannels themselves (would be a way bigger mess otherwise).

Just for fun I made a small one that does 3 digits (with a constant combinator as the base but a chest would work just the same):

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

EDIT: What I did was pretty much the same as klonan with fewer combinators.

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Would be really nice to have chests with a display.

[Fel]

That's why mods like nixie tubes long before display panels were introduced in the base game with 2.0.

I am also not really pleased that they can only show images, or some short text above (that can't be configured through circuit network either), it makes these display panels barely better than lights at displaying information as far as I'm concerned.

[königplatzen]

I wish, they would add parameters to the text label, where you would say something like:
"Amount of Iron is [iron-plate]"
or
"Copper [copper-plate], Iron [iron-plate]"