Automating Inscribers (AE2) using SFM

[nefentari]

So, I finally got inscribers (AE2: RV2 beta 8) kinda automated with Steve's Factory Manager (A93) using this explanation but there's still a problem:
SFM just doesn't want to insert the printed circuits (Calculation, Enginerring, Logic) into the top slot of the inschriber... Yes, the target output is set to "up" and I've already tried it using other directions and no blacklist but it simply doesn't even take the circuits out of the chest.
I then put a vanilla hopper on top of the top inscriber: If I put in the circuits by hand, they go into the inscriber just fine but when I connect the inventory cable to the hopper and change the output to it, it still doesn't pull the circuits from the chest.
From the looks of it, it could be just a bug with inscribers, since I also experienced a similar problem in Material Energy 4 (AE2: beta 3) with inscribers and item conduits (Ender IO), they also didn't want to put anything into the top slot of the inscribers.
Does anyone know an alternative or a way to fix it (can't really update the versions myself, since I'm playing on a server)?

And another question:
Can anyone guess, what the settings for "Input Node" and "Output Node" are supposed to be? I got it to work just fine, using only a Trigger at the start. The only problem with that is, that it first puts printed silicon circuits into the chest but then pulls them out again and puts them into the top inscriber.

 

[midgetassin]

Im asuming your tring to do it all with one inscriber, but theres a easlier way and for that matter faster. What you want to do is have 5 inscribers one for all of the ciricits and then one to put them all together. The ones to print them in the first place are to be automated with a very simple item conduit setup useing a interface and a chest. What you will need to do is put the item conduits on top of the interface (wich is set to face the chest) and on top of the chest then next to the inscribers (must be in the back). The ones touching the inscriber will need to be set on input and extract with difrent colors (I use blue for extract and green for insert). Then the ones touching the chest needs to be set to extract and the color you set for inserting into the inscriber. Then the ones for the interface needs top be set to insert with the color you had for extracting from the inscriber. Make sure these are set to touch non of the others in the other processes.

Then for the combining of the materials is were SFM comes in. You will need a interface and a chest along with the normal SFM stuff. You will take the SFM cables and place it next to the interface inscriber and chest. In the controler you will have three triggers along the top. Underneath them you will have the inserts. The first one will be set to pull any of the printed circuts (logic calcualtion or engineering) and place them into the top slot. then the next one will be set to inset redston to the middle slot and silicon into the bottom. the last one is to extract the final product(make sure you witelist the final products so nothing get prematurely pulled). Then have that dump into the interface. Make sure all interfaces are pointed torwards the chest that means the arrow is torward the chest (use a wrench).

 

[ctate]

Yeah, you really want to have four dedicated Inscribers, each preloaded with the four functional plates in the top position, and probably an additional Inscriber that stamps the resulting printed circuits with printed silicon + redstone to produce the final processors.

 

[mc.crab]

Using this http://imgur.com/a/CYg8i I set ten inscribers in Infinity so that each inscriber is able to do any of the crafting tasks.

 

[Ieldra]

This may be slightly OT, but you don't need SFM to automate inscribers. I've done it with a line of five inscribers using EnderIO item conduits to move stuff between them. At the start of the line there is a chest connected to an ME Interface which puts the required materials in the chest when a crafting request comes in, and the end result is drawn from the last inscriber by the same conduits using a different color channel and sent to the interfact. Then I put a crafting card into the interface and set it to keep 64 processors of every kind in store and pointed at it with a storage bus. One of the best-working pieces of automation in my base. It's been forever since I had to check a part of it. Processors are...just available. To set it up, you only to experiment with the sides of the inscribers and what goes in where.

 

[nefentari]

I now also tried another thing:
Input chest -> inventory cable - > second chest -> item conduit set to extract without redstone signal -> insert into the top of a hopper -> dumps the circuits into the top inscriber
But still: No success, it doesn't even remove the circuits from the chest. Is it maybe possible that there's some kind of ID conflict for the circuits? I already checked the damage value in the inventory manager and it's what it's supposed to be (e.g. 18 for prited logic circuits = gold) and also tried it with all the other settings but it still didn't work.

Im asuming your tring to do it all with one inscriber ....

No, I'm not. I'm using 5 set up like this:
http://imgur.com/a/G04IO
Everything else, like putting in the silicon, then pulling it out again and even putting it into the bottom slot of the top inscriber (look at the pictures) works just fine - only putting something into the top doesn't work. There's only the question about the Input and Output Node (3rd and 4th picture) but I can live with the Trigger if necessary.

.... but theres a easlier way and for that matter faster. What you want to do is have 5 inscribers one for all of the ciricits and then one to put them all together. The ones to print them in the first place are to be automated with a very simple item conduit setup useing a interface and a chest. What you will need to do is put the item conduits on top of the interface (wich is set to face the chest) and on top of the chest then next to the inscribers (must be in the back). The ones touching the inscriber will need to be set on input and extract with difrent colors (I use blue for extract and green for insert). Then the ones touching the chest needs to be set to extract and the color you set for inserting into the inscriber. Then the ones for the interface needs top be set to insert with the color you had for extracting from the inscriber. Make sure these are set to touch non of the others in the other processes.

Then for the combining of the materials is were SFM comes in. You will need a interface and a chest along with the normal SFM stuff. You will take the SFM cables and place it next to the interface inscriber and chest. In the controler you will have three triggers along the top. Underneath them you will have the inserts. The first one will be set to pull any of the printed circuts (logic calcualtion or engineering) and place them into the top slot. then the next one will be set to inset redston to the middle slot and silicon into the bottom. the last one is to extract the final product(make sure you witelist the final products so nothing get prematurely pulled). Then have that dump into the interface. Make sure all interfaces are pointed torwards the chest that means the arrow is torward the chest (use a wrench).

Thanks for the explanation but the point is that I want to do it as compact as possible and without using anything from AE2 except the inscribers, since I want to craft all the parts I need for my ME system automatically but haven't even set up a drive or terminal yet.
Furthermore, I already tried to automate it using item conduits in Material Energy 4 but it messed up even more then, like it would put silicon into the middle slot, even though it was only whitelisted for the bottom one,... .

Yeah, you really want to have four dedicated Inscribers, each preloaded with the four functional plates in the top position, and probably an additional Inscriber that stamps the resulting printed circuits with printed silicon + redstone to produce the final processors.

I have 5, please check the link in the first sentence of the starter post, and everything works except putting stuff into the top.

Using this http://imgur.com/a/CYg8i I set ten inscribers in Infinity so that each inscriber is able to do any of the crafting tasks.

This may be slightly OT, but you don't need SFM to automate inscribers. I've done it with a line of five inscribers using EnderIO item conduits to move stuff between them. At the start of the line there is a chest connected to an ME Interface which puts the required materials in the chest when a crafting request comes in, and the end result is drawn from the last inscriber by the same conduits using a different color channel and sent to the interfact. Then I put a crafting card into the interface and set it to keep 64 processors of every kind in store and pointed at it with a storage bus. One of the best-working pieces of automation in my base. It's been forever since I had to check a part of it. Processors are...just available. To set it up, you only to experiment with the sides of the inscribers and what goes in where.

I don't have an ME system yet, I want to craft all the circuits for it automatically by simply dumping everything into a chest. I can still expand it to work with an ME system later but until then, it has to work without interfaces and crafting CPUs...

 

[Ieldra]

I don't have an ME system yet, I want to craft all the circuits for it automatically by simply dumping everything into a chest. I can still expand it to work with an ME system later but until then, it has to work without interfaces and crafting CPUs...

That is, in fact, what my automated system does: dump the resources into the chest, have the conduits route them to their appropriate destinations, let the inscribers do their work and dump the processors back into the same chest. All you need is

(1) a few EndioIO item conduits (maybe some basic filters as well, I don't recall)
(2) five inscribers and the four inscriber presses
(3) a chest.

The only thing that the ME network adds is the capability for conditional autocrafting when the stock gets low, and the ability to initiate autocrafting from a terminal.

 

[mc.crab]

You dont need an ME system. All the ME system does is, it dumps all the needed resources into a chest and then SFM takes care of the rest.

Also the tutorial I posted allows you to easily add more inscribers as all you need to do is add them to the variable. It is more time consuming to set up than the conduit system but it's much more compact and faster.

 

[nefentari]

That is, in fact, what my automated system does: dump the resources into the chest, have the conduits route them to their appropriate destinations, let the inscribers do their work and dump the processors back into the same chest. All you need is

(1) a few EndioIO item conduits (maybe some basic filters as well, I don't recall)
(2) five inscribers and the four inscriber presses
(3) a chest.

The only thing that the ME network adds is the capability for conditional autocrafting when the stock gets low, and the ability to initiate autocrafting from a terminal.

Okay. I'll try it with item conduits in a test world later but like I said, it was even more messed up in ME4, so honestly, I really don't have any hope that it's going to work better this time around. :/

You dont need an ME system. All the ME system does is, it dumps all the needed resources into a chest and then SFM takes care of the rest.

Also the tutorial I posted allows you to easily add more inscribers as all you need to do is add them to the variable. It is more time consuming to set up than the conduit system but it's much more compact and faster.

Look at the link I posted. It's more or less the same thing but only in a more compact 3x3 pattern (I only need 5 inscribers). So yes, theoretically it should work but it doesn't and I kinda guess that it has something to do with whitelisting the circuits.