Any way to enable/disable based on logisitic vol

[ccomley]

I have played a lot now with enabling inserters, pumps, stations, etc based on volume of product in a chests, on belts, etc. but can't see a way to have the enable rule based on the volume of an item in the logi-network. Am I missing an obvious click or is it fiddly? Or impossible?

[The Chaotic Coder]

Connect a circuit wire to a roboport. One of the roboport's options is to read logi network's contents, this is the one you want.

You can also read the number of logi+construction bots in the network in the same way. I like to use this to automatically add bots to the network as necessary as the base grows.

[ccomley]

D'oh! Simple when you realise. thanks.

[Killcreek2]

You don't need to use a wire (the circuit network), you can connect entities such as inserters directly to the logistics net:

Open the inserter UI, then click the little button at the top (connect to logistics network), & set whatever condition you want. As long as the inserter (etc) is within the orange roboport boundary, it can see the raw contents of that logistics net & enable / disable based on that data.

If you need to alter / process that information before sending it onto the inserter, then you would need to use circuit wires & combinators.

edit ~ ps, you can connect it to both circuit and logi nets, using 2 different activation conditions, and it will only activate when both conditions are true.

[ccomley]

Thanks!