Data mirroring Unit (Logic)

[Vex]

A Unit that used to bring a complete unit from one circuit to an other.
Gassensor <> Mirror unit <> Logic
at the moment u need for a Gassensor about 8 Logic Reader.

[CaptainCamembert]

Please explain...

[Vex]

A gas sensor has following datapoints : all gases in % (o2, n2, h2o, h2, x, co2) pressure and temperature.

so to get all information of the sensor in an other Circuit u need 8 Logic reader.
this mirroring Unit should simply transfer all 8 values.

[CaptainCamembert]

How are you going to access one specific value from that then without readers?

[Vex]

i can't explain it in en, probably this helps ;)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XOM7C-W5pehGI1kDRo1ntG7i7CVSU9E4

the only way around is to connect the gas sensor directly to the yellow circuit,
and use dual consols in the greenhouse (probalby as slave device, and the master in the controlcenter)

lg

[CaptainCamembert]

Ok so say you have two separate networks. One for your atmospherics room and one for your greenhouse. You want to be able to have full access to the greenhouse sensor from logic chips in your atmospherics room.

You could either have 8 readers with their inputs on the greenhouse side and the output on the atmospherics, OR with your mirror/slave you could have that mirror connect the two networks similarly and then keep the readers purely in the atmospherics network reading from the slave.

Is that what you mean? That wouldn't necessarily save you chips but separating networks would be a charm. 🤔

[Vex]

yes that is what i mean ;)

[CaptainCamembert]

Ok...

+10

[CaptainCamembert]

One more suggestion:
With the current system, if you wanted your power- and logic-networks separate, you would need to "bridge" every single value over using readers or writers respectively.

With the proposed system, you could bridge entire devices over to the logic side using a slave chip. Output would still need one writer per value.

So I suggest the ultimate change! SLAVE CHIPS CAN ALSO BE USED AS OUTPUTS! Whaaat?

Basically, you could write to the slave chip instead of the actual device itself and the connected device would react accordingly. This way, the slave chip functions much like a bridge connecting ONE DEVICE with the logic network in ONE CHIP, no matter how much you read and write.

TL;DR: EVERY chip except the memory chip would have full readers included where needed. The current reader would be replaced by the slave chip. Slave chips connect to exactly one device and pass data back and forth between processing chips, writers and the connected device.

[Rocket]

Good suggestion.

I have added a Logic Mirror in revision 6653 (look out for this number on the beta, with the following description:

Added Logic Mirror. Has a screw that allows the selection of any device on it's input network. All variables of that device are then mirrored on this device, allowing you to mirror the logic state of devices between different networks. You are able to both read and write to the mirrored device. If the logic mirror is not powered, it will return no data and will not allow setting data. The logic mirror itself will be completely hidden to the logic system, as it's purpose is only to mirror. It is buildable off the Logic I/O Kit.

Also: my apologies. I normally always credit suggestions and in this instance, I forgot to credit you in the changelog :(

[CaptainCamembert]

Duuude! Awesome! Thanks a lot!

[Rocket]

Doesnt do everything you want, but it does help a little bit.

[CaptainCamembert]

It sounds pretty much exactly like what vex was suggesting, so that's awesome.

Are you talking about the "included readers"? I'm sure you will find a way to make that possible as well 😉
That especially will shrink circuits down dramatically 😊

[Vex]

i see it today on a YT vid ;) i was busy the last weeks, but it looks exactly what i mean! very promising ;)

[smilingman]

If I understand the function of this device correctly, you could probably call this an opto-isolator.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opto-isolator