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[Papkee]

Hello,

I'm trying to connect my batboxes up to my computer by using modems so that I can monitor them from the central room of my house. However, the modem will not connect to the batbox - it simply will not place on the side of it! I can place other blocks on the batbox just fine, and modems place fine on other blocks like computers and misc. peripherals. It also will not place on other storage blocks like MFEs and MFSUs.

I would love to know if this is a known bug and how to fix it.

Thanks!

Edited

I supposed version information would be important. Running 1.7.10 on my own custom modpack.

Edited by Papkee, 07 March 2015 - 03:36 AM.

[Bomb Bloke]

If you place a computer directly besides the batbox, is it able to detect the block as a peripheral?

[Papkee]

Yes, if I place it next to a computer and use openp/docs <direction> I get all the various functions and calls.

[Bomb Bloke]

In that case, it may simply be the case that a batbox is now a magic block that modems can't directly attach to (like chests, essence jars, etc). I'd imagine this is version dependant, as I've placed modems on MFSUs using older releases. Unfortunately I believe that this would need to be sorted out by the IC2 devs, as it'd have to do with the way their blocks are defined.

As a workaround for cases such as these, OpenPeripherals offers "peripheral proxy" blocks. Place one next to the batbox, place the modem onto the back of the proxy, then "connect" the modem. You should now be able to access the batbox as per normal.

Last I knew, proxies can be a little bit buggy if you break the peripheral next to them - they'll stop working correctly until you also break and replace the proxy.

[Papkee]

Yep, that works. I guess IC2 broke OP again.