Me Subnetworks

[weini37]

Dear Community!
Lately I had some troubles configuring my subnetworks correctly.

Networks:

1. Main
   1. It is the Main network with the crafting CPU and every other automated machinery
2. Bee Network
   1. It stores everything relevant to bees also it should automate every bee stuff

Task:

• The bee network should acess the Main networks content
  • Solved by using an ME Interface and an storage bus
• The bee network should acess the Main networks crafting cpu and should put the items into the main network
  • Not Solved
• Everything on the bee networks automations should be put into the me drive from the bee network
  • Solved by putting the me cables to the bees controller not the main controller

Now I want to ask, if there is a possible solution to the 2nd Task?

 

[madnewmy]

I don't think ME can access another ME's mac, but you might be able to do using logistic pipe. Another choice would be a small mac for bee but thats not what you seem to want

Using me interface - Logistic pipe - other system's me interface? Never used LP, just a proposition you might want to try...

 

[CarbonBasedGhost]

Umm the only bet I could have for accessing the main networks crafting CPU would be to hook up a cable from the bee network to it. If that doesn't work build a smaller crafting CPU for your bee area.

 

[madnewmy]

Umm the only bet I could have for accessing the main networks crafting CPU would be to hook up a cable from the bee network to it. If that doesn't work build a smaller crafting CPU for your bee area.

That would make 2 controller for one network and break it :/ connecting to the MAC will connect to the network making everything part of the main one unstead of a sub

 

[CarbonBasedGhost]

That would make 2 controller for one network and break it :/ connecting to the MAC will connect to the network making everything part of the main one unstead of a sub

Well if you are really desperate you could do some complex red stone system involving exporting and importing from both systems but if you are lazy just build another crafting CPU.

 

[casilleroatr]

It depends on what you need the MAC to do for your subnetwork. If you want the MAC to keep x number of craftables in your subnetwork automatically then you are probably best off using level emitters in your subnetwork to control export busses set to craft/single item on your main network. (You can also do that without level emitters if you are not concerned with how many items are being made, or if you are comfortable with having ~27 frames - as an example of a craftable that has a unit stacksize - you can dump continuously into a chest that is hooked up via storage bus on your subnetwork).

If you want to use the MAC for manual requesting then you have two further options. You can use coloured cables on your subnetwork and use alongside that a different set of coloured cables (main network) to make it so that you can have ME terminals from both networks in the same area. Or you can do some redstone trickery (can be as simple as a lever, with two outputs, where one output is inverted) to control access for your ME controllers to the MAC via dark cables. So long as you ensure that only one dark cable is on at a time you will be able to provide both networks with MAC access (although not simultaneously).

 

[weini37]

If you want to use the MAC for manual requesting then you have two further options. You can use coloured cables on your subnetwork and use alongside that a different set of coloured cables (main network) to make it so that you can have ME terminals from both networks in the same area.

Sadly i can't try this till Wednesday, but if I have figured out your post it ment:
use not a specific color in the bee and main network except to the crafting cpu. there you need two different colors, on for the bee and one for the main network.
Have i understood this correctly?

 

[casilleroatr]

Sadly i can't try this till Wednesday, but if I have figured out your post it ment:
use not a specific color in the bee and main network except to the crafting cpu. there you need two different colors, on for the bee and one for the main network.
Have i understood this correctly?

Not quite. The different coloured cables are there purely to ensure that your bee network and main network never touch. In this case the idea is that you extend your main network into your bee area using coloured cable to so you can place an access terminal that can request MAC crafts in your bee room. You can use different coloured cables on your bee network to ensure that it doesn't cross with your main network.