Replacing ME Level Emitters with Logistic Pipes?

[Methusalem]

Logistic Pipes look like a great way to automate crafting and to control the materials going into machines. But it there also an easy way to switch the machines off (or stop the material supply), as soon as there is a certain amount of the end product in the system?

Example would be, I convert wood into charcoal to run some boilers. The Export Buses are controlled by Level Emitters and stop feeding the furnaces as soon as there are more than 500 charcoal available. Is that doable with Logistic Pipes?

 

[Loufmier]

i cannot remember any redstone control for LP.
as a workaround you can cut off ME interface that`s connected to LP network, using dark cable.

 

[Riuga]

Nope. Due to the nature of LP, there is no "1 single inventory to rule them all" like with AE. Perhaps in the future there are emerald gates that can detect specific amounts of stuff.

 

[tedyhere]

The LP system can integrate into a ME Interface therefore allowing it to see the entire AE inventory. But I don't believe there is a condition for if we have over 500 charcoal stop making this.

 

[Loufmier]

The LP system can integrate into a ME Interface therefore allowing it to see the entire AE inventory. But I don't believe there is a condition for if we have over 500 charcoal stop making this.

probably not, however people who has more experience with LP autocrafting, might prove this wrong.
otherwise i`ve already posted a workaround for this.

 

[Methusalem]

Thanks for the responses, I guess the level emitters will still see some heavy use then.

 

[Anubis]

You could use a filled chest as a buffer instead of worrying about actual numbers. For example have the LP fill an Iron chest with charcoal, use a hopper to pull from the chest and deposit to your boiler. Of course you could go all out with the buffer and use a diamond chest instead.

 

[netchip]

Thanks for the responses, I guess the level emitters will still see some heavy use then.

Put a supplier pipe on an iron chest and set it to the amount you want... If you drain stuff out, it gets auto supplied.

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[Methusalem]

Put a supplier pipe on an iron chest and set it to the amount you want... If you drain stuff out, it gets auto supplied.

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That should work, thank you.

It would need to handle quite a few items though and some of them are in larger quantity. Is it also possible to slap the supplier pipe on an ME Chest or even an ME Interface directly?

 

[Anubis]

Possibly but last I tried you could not extract from ME chests. You'd pretty much be back to square 1 getting items out of your ME network.

 

[rymmie1981]

Of course, there's a way to do that in LP.

Just put a supplier pipe on an inventory with a specific amount of the item you want in the gui slot. Make sure that partial requests are not enabled. Whenever the inventory drops below the number, it will start requesting more which will engage the crafting recipes. When the inventory reaches the specified number, the supplier pipe will stop requesting which will make the crafting pipes stop making the items.

One thing to be aware of with this is that you can get oversupply if the Item Sources, Crafting Pipes and destination inventories are too far apart. The real trick to maximizing LP systems is to decentralize. Purposefully create bottlenecks in the right areas, and you'll never have oversupply issues.

 

[rymmie1981]

That should work, thank you.

It would need to handle quite a few items though and some of them are in larger quantity. Is it also possible to slap the supplier pipe on an ME Chest or even an ME Interface directly?

Put a Provider Pipe on an ME Interface so that your LP network can see your ME network. Put a Request Pipe on an Interface for ME to see your LP network. Put a Basic Logistics Pipe on an Interface for power sharing. Put an Itemsink Module in a Chassis to keep LP from overfilling your ME network. You can do all of these on a single ME Interface without problems.

 

[Harvest88]

Put a Provider Pipe on an ME Interface so that your LP network can see your ME network. Put a Request Pipe on an Interface for ME to see your LP network. Put a Basic Logistics Pipe on an Interface for power sharing. Put an Itemsink Module in a Chassis to keep LP from overfilling your ME network. You can do all of these on a single ME Interface without problems.

Couldn't you get away with a chassis mk2 and then just put the other two pipes on the ME interface? Didn't know the controller can give units to the LP network.

 

[rymmie1981]

Couldn't you get away with a chassis mk2 and then just put the other two pipes on the ME interface? Didn't know the controller can give units to the LP network.

I haven't tried with a Chassis, honestly. My solution is to use the Basic Pipe to make the ME Interface my default route. This will make anything I haven't seen before go into my ME network which will usually be unstackable stuff. If the items have a place to go, they will never touch my ME network which means that I never have to worry about my network filling up. For long-term storage of large amounts of items, I use DSUs unless, of course, the items are unstackable.

When it comes to crafting, you are better off using an MFR Liquicrafter with LP for liquids over AE autocrafting every time because of how amazingly LP handles liquids. For everything else, it's mostly personal preference, but with some practice and experimentation LP can do things that AE only dreams about.

 

[ratchet freak]

I seem to recall that there are gate triggers on supplier pipes to disable them

 

[Clem2095]

Connect a computer to a request pipe and wrap it as a peripheral, have a look to available methods, you can control precisely how many items you have and then turn on/off your crafts.