Laser antennas are still broken.
Setup:
Creative world where I design stuff.
An old large grid ship, but powered, have regular antenna set to 50km and 2 laser antennas set to INF, all powered, regular antenna set to transmit, coordinates of both laser antennas saved in GPS tab.
A small grid ship with normal antenna, laser antenna, powered, piloted by me. Regular antenna set to 5000m, laser antenna set to INF, ship's attitude allows laser antenna to see GPS marker. Laser antenna can see 1 of 2 laser antennas, and connected to it. I tried to reset connection, laser antenna reconnects to it's target no problem.
But. I cannot access target's grid, nor any grids (all of them) that are within large ship's antenna range, the whole build area.
So, what can I do with laser antenna? I setup 2 action relays to they can talk and activate broadcast controllers. Nope. With regular antenna set to see target ship it's works, with regular antenna set to not transmit - nope. Distance is 29km - just outside the drawing range.
Turns out the only use of laser antenna is to check that target grid still have power.
Why? The difficult parts, the Line of Sight, range, power use, angle limitations - are all solved, The only part left is to enable terminal access, and disable it if connection is lost. The Laser antenna correctly reports stuff to terminal status window, but somehow not to grid's comm system.
Can you fix it?
On side note, the Remote Access window fails to update if it still have a remote access. So it SOMETIMES shows list of all grids that WERE in range when regular antenna was available, all statuses are good and all that. But "terminal" buttons cannot be clicked and "control" buttons just close the window.
I have the same bug
Hello, Engineer!
Thank you for reaching out to us with this issue.
The issue with Action Relay was already reported and forwarded to our devs via this thread (https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/pc/topic/44433-action-relay-not-working-over-laser-antenna-connection-after-contact-update). There are some additional known issues with the laser antenna but we were not able to reproduce the issue with establishing remote access to grids nearby a laser antenna and then via normal antenna. Could you please share the world save where this happens? You can access your save files by typing %appdata% into your Windows search bar and you will be redirected to the hidden Roaming folder. After that just follow: \Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Saves. There should be a folder with your SteamID and your saves.
Please zip the file and attach it here
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Keen Software House: QA Department.
Hello, Engineer!
Thank you for reaching out to us with this issue.
The issue with Action Relay was already reported and forwarded to our devs via this thread (https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/pc/topic/44433-action-relay-not-working-over-laser-antenna-connection-after-contact-update). There are some additional known issues with the laser antenna but we were not able to reproduce the issue with establishing remote access to grids nearby a laser antenna and then via normal antenna. Could you please share the world save where this happens? You can access your save files by typing %appdata% into your Windows search bar and you will be redirected to the hidden Roaming folder. After that just follow: \Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Saves. There should be a folder with your SteamID and your saves.
Please zip the file and attach it here
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Keen Software House: QA Department.
This time I was unable to replicate it.
Sending the save archive anyway.
The day ago it almost never worked, this time is 99% of a time works.
The only thing I managed to catch this time is that: sometimes "Remote Access" window and grid list dropbox widget are failing to update when connection is lost or established.
May be .... the regular antenna is updating those 2 widgets more often or in more robust way?
The Remote Access window (when access is actually lost) still shows all the grids with all statuses good and all buttons enabled, but clicking on Terminal buttons only produces standard beep, and clicking on "Control" button closes the window.
Also.
I talked with community on official Discord, and consensus was that Laser Antenna "sometimes works, sometimes don't, since day 1 it was added, and cannot be relied upon".
Also.
What is difference of "Paste coordinates" and "Connect to coordinates"? Looks like antenna is trying to connect is both cases. All buttons need to have tooltips. Some already have them, some don't. May be, when possible Laser Antenna patch would be in the works, Keen should take time and add all tooltips specifically to Laser Antenna interface.
This time I was unable to replicate it.
Sending the save archive anyway.
The day ago it almost never worked, this time is 99% of a time works.
The only thing I managed to catch this time is that: sometimes "Remote Access" window and grid list dropbox widget are failing to update when connection is lost or established.
May be .... the regular antenna is updating those 2 widgets more often or in more robust way?
The Remote Access window (when access is actually lost) still shows all the grids with all statuses good and all buttons enabled, but clicking on Terminal buttons only produces standard beep, and clicking on "Control" button closes the window.
Also.
I talked with community on official Discord, and consensus was that Laser Antenna "sometimes works, sometimes don't, since day 1 it was added, and cannot be relied upon".
Also.
What is difference of "Paste coordinates" and "Connect to coordinates"? Looks like antenna is trying to connect is both cases. All buttons need to have tooltips. Some already have them, some don't. May be, when possible Laser Antenna patch would be in the works, Keen should take time and add all tooltips specifically to Laser Antenna interface.
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