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[superhamster]

Im trying to control the turtle without the need of staying on the computer to send the commands i have the rednet part up and running but i sont know how to do the rest.

Here is my code to the computer www.pastebin.com/zz5BBhnk


Here is my code to the turtle www.pastebin.com/nqb3UznA

Thank You!

[LBPHacker]

So you basically want to control something without using a controller. That's not gonna be easy. Do you have MiscPeripherals installed? The Chatbox peripheral can read your chat messages. Altough that'd mean spamming the chat with commands, there's no other way I can think of right now.

[CometWolf]

Terminal glasses from openPeripherals is probably a more suited approach. This way you can send commands outside of chat, aswell as display relevant info to your screen.

[Bomb Bloke]

Or do you perhaps want to be able to queue commands, go off and do something else, and come back to the controller computer to find them all completed while you were away?

[CometWolf]

After taking a quick look at the code, i'd assume he wants to be able to map turtle actions directly to his keyboard. This is unfortunately not a possibility as far as im aware of. Admittedly queuing commands from a computer would be a good idea, but either way you'll probably have to change your program so you don't have to queue up each move, but instead be able to queue up multiples of the same action in one go. Another quikc thing to note, is your usage of ifs

if message == "f" then
  turtle.forward()
end -- should use elseif here instead
if message == "l" then
  turtle.turnLeft()
end

Can instead be

if message == "f" then
  turtle.forward()
elseif message == "l" then
  turtle.turnLeft()
end

This both makes the code more optimized(faster), aswell as shorter.