technic-cd2025/technic/doc/digilines.md

Technic digilines compatibility

This document describes the interaction of technic machines with the digilines mod (https://github.com/minetest-mods/digilines)

Switching station

NOTE: make sure the channel is set accordingly, "switch" in this case

There are two ways getting information from the switching station:

1. Give it a mesecon signal (eg. with a lever) and it will send always when the supply or demand changes.

2. Send to the switching station "get" or "GET" and it will send back.

The sent message is always a table containing the supply, demand and lag.

Example luacontroller code:

if event.type == "program" then
	-- start interrupt cycle
	interrupt(1)
end

if event.type == "interrupt" then
	-- request stats
	digiline_send("switch", "GET")
end

if event.type == "digiline" and event.channel == "switch" then
	--[[
	event.msg = {
		demand = 0, -- demand in EU's
		supply = 0, -- supply in EU's
		lag = 0 -- generated lag in microseconds
	}
	--]]
end

Power monitor

The commands:

• "get": The power monitor sends back information about the attached network
  • "supply", "demand" and "lag": Same as switching station
  • "battery_count", "battery_charge" and "battery_charge_max": Totaled information about the attached batteries.

Supply Converter

You can send the following to it:

• "get": It will send back a table containing the fields "enabled", "power" and "mesecon_mode" which are all integers.
• "off": Deactivate the supply converter.
• "on": Activate the supply converter.
• "toggle": Activate or deactivate the supply converter depending on its current state.
• "power "..power: Set the amount of the power, it shall convert.
• "mesecon_mode "..<int>: Set the mesecon mode.

Battery Boxes

Send to it "get" or "GET" and it will send a table back containing:

• demand: A number.
• supply: A number.
• input: A number.
• charge: A number.
• max_charge: A number.
• src: Itemstack made to table.
• dst: Itemstack made to table.
• upgrade1: Itemstack made to table.
• upgrade2: Itemstack made to table.

Forcefield Emitter

You should send a table to it containing the command and for some commands the value field. Some strings will automatically be made to tables:

• "get" ➡️ {command = "get"}
• "off" ➡️ {command = "off"}
• "on" ➡️ {command = "on"}
• "toggle" ➡️ {command = "toggle"}
• "range "..range ➡️ {command = "range", value = range}
• "shape "..shape ➡️ {command = "shape", value = shape}

The commands:

• "get": The forcefield emitter sends back a table containing:
  • "enabled": 0 is off, 1 is on.
  • "range"
  • "shape": 0 is spheric, 1 is cubic.
• "off": Deactivate the forcefield emitter.
• "on": Activate the forcefield emitter.
• "toggle": Activate or deactivate the forcefield emitter depending on its current state.
• "range": Set the range to value.
• "shape": value can be a number (0 or 1) or a string ("sphere" or "cube").

Nuclear Reactor

Since the nuclear reactor core can't be accessed by digiline wire because the water layer which mustn't have a hole, you need the HV Digicables to interact with it.

You should send a table to it containing at least the command field and for some commands other fields.

The commands:

• "get": The nuclear reactor sends back a table containing:
  • "burn_time": The time in seconds how long the reactor already runs. One week after start, when it reaches 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 (=604800), the fuel is completely used.
  • "enabled": A bool.
  • "siren": A bool.
  • "structure_accumulated_badness"
  • "rods": A table with 6 numbers in it, one for each fuel slot.
    • A positive value is the count of fuel rods in the slot.
    • 0 means the slot is empty.
    • A negative value means some other items are in the slot. The absolute value is the count of these items.
• "self_destruct": A setting has to be enabled to use this. The reactor will melt down after timer seconds or instantly.
• "start": Tries to start the reactor, "Start successful" is sent back on success, "Error" if something is wrong.

If the automatic start is enabled, it will always send "fuel used" when it uses fuel.

Quarry

You should send a table to it containing the command and for some commands the value field. Some strings will automatically be converted to tables:

• "get" ➡️ {command = "get"}
• "on" ➡️ {command = "on"}
• "off" ➡️ {command = "off"}
• "restart ➡️ {command = "restart"}
• "radius "..value ➡️ {command = "radius", value = value}

The commands:

• "get": The forcefield emitter sends back a table containing:
  • "enabled": 0 is off, 1 is on.
  • "radius"
  • "finished"
  • "dug_nodes"
  • "dig_level": A negative value means above the quarry, a positive value means below.
• "on": Activate the quarry.
• "off": Deactivate the quarry.
• "restart": Restart the quarry.
• "radius": Set the radius to value and restart the quarry if the radius changed.