Electric Network Info - Touch App

Electric Network Info

This mod adds an App to LCD screens for monitoring Electric production and consumption, also battery storage and detailed info per block. It saves a history of last 30 minutes of data and presents the info as a chart, with configurable interval.

How to Install

[olist] [*] Open any LCD Block Control Panel; [*] Change Content property to Script; [*] Select "Electric Network Info" from the list; [/olist]

Description

• Consumption - Current and consumption if all blocks require maximum input;
• Production - Current and production if all producers are on maximum output;
• Battery Output - Current power production of batteries and maximum output;
• Chart Time Span - Set the time span for the graph. "30s" means over the last 30 seconds;
• Battery Checkbox - If checked, battery output will count as production in the graph;
• Battery Storage - Time until the battery is depleted. If red border, the system is overloaded. Needs more power production;
• Detailed Consumption and Production - A list of consumers and producers from highest power to lowest;
• Window Bar Buttons - Help button open this help panel. Gears button open settings. Changes how info is displayed;

Screens and Touch

It works and adapts to pretty much any LCD in the vanilla game and DLCs including cockpits, but since it has small bottons and labels it may be hard to read in some small screens. Use Screen Calibration app to make it work on any modded LCD. Touch screen feature is provided by TouchScreenAPI mod. Which makes both cursor and UI elements available for any modder. Send me a direct message on Github, Steam or Discord (@adrianolima).

Multiplayer and Servers

It works in singleplayer, multiplayer and also servers. Since it is a TSS (LCD script) it runs almost entirely at client side. The clients are responsible for drawing and monitoring the grids, and also sends to the server only for persisting data across sessions. I made it only visible to players that have access to the block, so share with faction will allow other player to interact with it.

Changing the Scale

Use "Ctrl + Plus" or "Ctrl + Minus" to change the scale of the app. "Ctrl + 0" to reset. This can be very useful for small screens.

Running at 6fps

This is a limitation on the game side for LCD screens texture frames update. There is a possible workaround to make it run at 30fps, but for performance reasons I decided to keep this first version without it. It is possible that I change it on upcoming versions.

Have and idea of a Touch App?

I just created an open Discussion on TouchScreenAPI for people to share and discuss ideas.