DW 1.10 - Item Laser hell ? Or is it just me?

[WuffleFluffy]

I have watched Dire's video several times now and re-created his set up.

At first it worked, but after a while when i add more than half a dozen chests the filtering system stops working.

When I remove chests from the system i still can't get this to work.

After several hours (even going to build a completley new setup) I can't get these damned things to work.

Is anyone else having problems with item laser relays and advanced item laser relays?

-Wuffle!

** FOUND THE PROBLEM **

This might be helpful for other people.
If things are not filtering into your network, CHECK THE ESD!!

Things can get stuck there sometimes and if something is stuck in that items sole inventory slot (In the middle of the UI for that block) nothing will be extracted from your input chest.

I note that even with a default route in place, that sometimes items can be stuck in the ESD.

 

[Starfang42]

I noticed with that episode he had to go back and "reset" the output on the ESD when a new chest was added to the system so it recognized the new slots. May or may not have been your issue. Either way, something a person could easily miss, so figure I'd mention.

 

[WuffleFluffy]

ahhh...

I've got it all going with a hopper pulling things out of my input chest, it just works, not concerned with speed as i usually 'dump' stuff and then run off to do something else.
I think that must be it, because when i removed the ESD everything began working again.

-Wuffle!

 

[Dentvar]

As Starfang42 just said, ESD needs a manualy update each time you change a inventorty(Chest) next to it. Otherwise it will not detect the inventory as Valid and get "stuck".

 

[WuffleFluffy]

It's not working now... I'm getting a bit frustrated with these laser things to be honest.

I destroy all the lasers, reset everything, put them all back, reconfigure the item filters.. and it works.
Then I go away do some mining, come back and put some ingots in my input chest (which WORKED when i was last at my storage barn)
and it doesn't work, have to rebuild it all up again and it works, until I go away again

If I rebuild it all and remain there, it works fine, if I move far away (area is not chunk loaded) and come back again, it stops working.

I might try chunkloading the chunk that has the storage barn in it and see if that helps.

-Wuffle.

 

[Dentvar]

Try to put the Interface and the inventory that is attached into the same chunck. I would guess that by coming back and loading the Chuncks, first you load the one with the iterface and since its a bit sensible to block updates it maybe getting stuck.
Just an idea and someone who knows how this is coded maybe will tell me what a horrible logic this is but so far give it a try.

 

[WuffleFluffy]

Try to put the Interface and the inventory that is attached into the same chunck...

Brilliant! You solved it.

I looked at Chunk boundaries and you are absolutely spot on, I moved it all into the one chunk (I normally check chunk boundaries before I build my stuff, but for some reason I forgot.

Now it's all working just fine

Well, that would mess up any sorting system, regardless of mod. I had the input chest and the item interface in seperate chunks... silly me.

-Wuffle!