For some reason, the program creates the variable of the energy amount in the generator when the program starts, and works properly. But the variable does not change until the program restarts...how do I get it to refresh the variable while the program is running to update the energy amount and continue the program.
Please let me know if this is possible at all or not. I'm pretty sure I've seen it before in other people's programs, but not sure how they did it. I would say I know a fair bit of LUA, as I have created fairly complicated programs in my past. If it's not possible, I guess that's fine, but I want some way to automatically control the generators. Thanks in advance!
The pastebin...
http://pastebin.com/qPLshg40
The code...
generator1 = peripheral.wrap("extrautils_generatorsolar_6") generator2 = peripheral.wrap("extrautils_generatorsolar_7") generator3 = peripheral.wrap("extrautils_generatorsolar_8") local energy1 = generator1.getEnergyStored() local energy2 = generator2.getEnergyStored() local energy3 = generator3.getEnergyStored() function display() print("") term.clearLine(1,3) term.setCursorPos(1,3) print("Solar 1: " .. energy1 .. " / 100000 RF") print("") term.clearLine(1,5) term.setCursorPos(1,5) print("Solar 2: " .. energy2 .. " / 100000 RF") print("") term.clearLine(1,7) term.setCursorPos(1,7) print("Solar 3: " .. energy3 .. " / 100000 RF") end function scan() term.clear() term.setCursorPos(1,1) print("Scanning solar.") sleep(.5) term.clear() term.setCursorPos(1,1) print("Scanning solar..") sleep(.5) term.clear() term.setCursorPos(1,1) print("Scenning solar...") sleep(.5) term.clear() term.setCursorPos(1,1) print("Solar scanned...") end function main() scan() monitorGenerator1() while true do display() os.sleep(1) end end function generatorMonitor() while true do monitorGenerator1() sleep(1) end end function monitorGenerator1() if energy1 == 100000 then term.clearLine(1,9) term.setCursorPos(1,9) print("Solar 1 is full...") redstone.setOutput("top", true) end if energy1 == 0 then term.clearLine(1,9) term.setCursorPos(1,9) print("Solar 1 is filling...") redstone.setOutput("top", false) end end main()