Simultaneous and tick based redstone outputs

[Silver 0]

I am using something like this:

function pulse(rsComponent, side)
    rsComponent.setOutput(side, 15);
    rsComponent.setOutput(side, 0);
end

pulse(thirdGenerator, sides.bottom);
pulse(secondGenerator, sides.bottom);

Both "thirdGenerator" and "secondGenerator" are Redstone I/O block cpmponents connected to the computer via cables. 
Running this will make them give a short pulse at the bottom of the blocks but there is like a 10 tick delay between them.

How can I manage to make both of them activate at the same time?

Also, is there a way to set a fixed amount of ticks (a really short delay like 3 ticks or something like that) to wait between first and second pulse?

[Molinko 43]

Not sure if this will solve the delay between calls, but you can try using rs bundled cable and set the output simultaneously..

rsComponent.setBundledOutput(sides.back, colors.green, colors.red)

I don't think you can specify ticks for delay.. Only seconds and a tenth I believe...

[Gorzoid 10]

OpenComputers is not the best for timed redstone due to the forced delay, I have to use computercraft when I want to do it.

[Molinko 43]

I believe the later version of oc has good support for enderio bundled cable. Also, I believe the delay between setting two colors at once is solved with bundled cable here. Just a thought

[Silver 0]

15 hours ago, Molinko said:

Not sure if this will solve the delay between calls, but you can try using rs bundled cable and set the output simultaneously..

rsComponent.setBundledOutput(sides.back, colors.green, colors.red)

I don't think you can specify ticks for delay.. Only seconds and a tenth I believe...

Too bad. I have ProjectRed but the bundled cable seems not to connect properly to the Computer / Redstone I/O blocks for some reason.

If there is no way of doing it with a computer I might stick to vanilla redstone then..

[Silver 0]

7 hours ago, Gorzoid said:

OpenComputers is not the best for timed redstone due to the forced delay, I have to use computercraft when I want to do it.

That's unfortunate. It would be nice if there were any way to circumvent this delay in OpenComputers too..

[[xieve] 0]

Maybe you could do three outputs like this:

The one in the middle would fire both outputs at the same time, and you could still only fire one with the left and right ones.

 

[MrFaul 0]

well if you want to have simultaneous outputs you need to set the redstoneDelay in the settings.conf to 0 (or less than a tick < 0.05) there is currently no other way to achieve that.

But be aware if you do so, you need to build a custom timing system into your script to avoid double calls on redstone in one tick otherwise you could end up with really bad MC performance.

I use something like this:

local redstone = require("component").redstone --lazy shorthand for demo purpose dont use that until you know why
local tick = computer.uptime() --get the current ingame uptime in seconds
tick = tick % 1 --gets only the fraction of a second
tick = tick * 20 --multiply by 20 to get the tick
tick = math.floor(tick + 0.1) --remove any binary error and get a clean tick number

-- you can shorten this to:
--local tick = math.floor((computer.uptime()%1)*20+0.1))

--create a shorthand that only executes if the set value differs
local function setRS(side, value)
  local current = redstone.getOutput(side) --get current output value, dont use getInput() could be different
  if current ~= value then
    redstone.setOutput(side,value)
  end
end

--you could also implement a execute only once per tick function to filter multiple calls in one tick
--but I dont do this since it would be stupid to change a redstone signal more than once in a tick anyway

Dafuq code block seems to have badly broken highlighter try with some real lua highlighter

Anyway I opened a issue on that on Github  to fix that by allowing to feed setOutput a table with six sides, maybe we are lucky and it get implemented.