Satellite Dish Network Information?

[Andrew K]

I'm writing IC10 programs to read and use data from a Satellite Dish. Does anyone know:

1. If there is a way to isolate the SignalStrength of the nearest signal to one specific SignalID no matter the Horizontal and Vertical rotation of the dish, even when other closer signal are present?

2. What Activate does? I've seen it initiate interrogation as well as initiate the landing of a trader. I suppose it does both.

3. Is there a way to identify whether a Dish is currently making progress on a SignalStrength value? In other words, since I understand SignalStrength to be -1 whenever a signal is not measured (e.g., while the dish is in motion, while the signal scan is not complete, and while there are no scannable signals), I would like to know if there is a value that indicates that the Dish is not finding any available signals at all.

4. Do the target vector of Trader signals change over time? Do traders "move around" in the sky? If so I would need three dishes measuring all at once to get an accurate triangulated signal.

[lisnaz]

1: Yes. Set bestContactId attribute of dish to lockdown.

2: interrogate, call down, if called down once it won't call down a second time.

3: Yes for medium dish, no for others. Medium dish stack instruction WriteMetadata works regardless signal resolved or not.

4: Yes. Also they have lifetime, please referring to unofficial wiki.

[Andrew K]

Originally posted by lisnaz:

1: Yes. Set bestContactId attribute of dish to lockdown.

2: interrogate, call down, if called down once it won't call down a second time.

3: Yes for medium dish, no for others. Medium dish stack instruction WriteMetadata works regardless signal resolved or not.

4: Yes. Also they have lifetime, please referring to unofficial wiki.

Great, thanks for the information. What is the WriteMetadata you are referring to? Is it a logicType?

[lisnaz]

No, it's stack instruction.

[Andrew K]

Originally posted by lisnaz:

No, it's stack instruction.

Okay, thank you.

[Andrew K]

I've been writing scripts to automate trader interrogation, but in my testing I found that different satellites pointing in the same direction, with the same power setting and switched on at the same time, will resolve their signal at the same time but report different signals. Therefore, I deem a signal triangulation script impossible. Instead a trial and error method would be best, although I was hoping to use a much less time-consuming method.