View Power usage
BrightCandle opened this issue · 0 comments
Feature description:
It would be nice to have a display that shows current rate of power extraction from an Ender Channel (averaged over 1-10 seconds or something similar) in RF/t.
It would also be useful to see the power received into Ender channels.
I can see two possible ways to do this
A new block
This block would allow the player to show the RF/t being added and removed from a channel.
- Could be a monitor that you set to a channel and it shows into the game so no need to click on the block once its configured to a channel.
- Could just be a block you interact with and it shows all the channels in one big display.
- Could be a block you click into and select each channel to see the stats for that channel.
Flux networks shows a graph over time and that would be nice to have but momentary average power is usually enough for forecasting needs for upgrades to the power system.
On the existing blocks as a feature of the existing display interface
Most of the blocks have the ability to receive and extract so would need their main interface to additionally show the rate of power extract and receive in RF/t.
At the least the following blocks could do with the ability to see how much power is being added and removed.
- Ender Cells
- Ender Gates
These would be the most used since the concept of the Ender network of power is unique to the mod, nothing else can view the rate of change of power into and out of them.
I could make a case for this being on the player transmitters, energy cells, energy hoppers, energy dischargers, energizing orb and batteries.
Why you think this feature should be added:
There is no obvious way currently within Powah to see how much energy is being used on a channel in consumption nor production and once you get to a certain size its hard to work out if your needs are going to temporarily or permanently exceed your power production.
Other mods have in the past relied on things like EnderIO's Power Monitor (not available on the current 1.20 EnderIO for ATM9 Sky) but the Ender channel network being unique to Powah can't be monitored by any other mods.
It is possible to do this with an energy trash can and some maths but that is a separate mod. Create an Ender Gate and connect it to something capable of monitoring like a Flux network and have that Flux network output into an Energy Trash Can. The number the flux network is consuming once its emptied out all the storage will be the remaining RF/t before running out of power. That is quite awkward and relies on two other mods and its an indirect measure. I don’t now how but Powah actually behaves well and powers machines before the Flux network Trash can but without priorities I have no idea if this is just because its the last Ender Gate placed.
Many other tech mods do this like Mekanism have consumption on all its machines, EnderIO has its Power Monitor and Engineer goggles in Create for stress.
This is one of the biggest issues I had running a big Powah network with multiple channels in use.