Also, 0.2.1 is “released” this preview is concluded, thanks for helping out with the testing

Hi! I am running 0.2.1 A, so we are clear on that. If, for some odd reason I am out of date, feel free to smack me up the side of the head with a cold dead mackerel like you was Monty Python.

I am having an issue with satellite pipes. I got an auto crafting bench, a normal vanilla chest next to it, a crafting pipe on the bench, a satellite pipe on the chest. I got a water bucket in the chest, the recipe is 4 sand 4 dirt and a water bucket to make bog earth (for Forestry). Tap the satellite pipe with the wrench, click the + to make it 1, and close that out. I then tap the crafting pipe with the wrench, import, delete the water bucket, drop it into the Satellite grey side, click the > to set it to satellite pipe 1, and close that out. I click the Remote Orderer on a basic logistic pipe, see dirt, see sand, click on the bog earth, request 1, and it says it’s missing 1 water bucket. I check the chest, it has a water bucket in it. So I am confused, it has a water bucket in the satellite chest sitting against the auto crafting bench so it *should* be using it to craft up the bog earth. O.o Unless… *gets a crazy notion* Alright, makes sense, but it’s weird… I put a Provider pipe and tied it back onto the Satellite Pipe and vola, it works. *head desks* Alright, sweet… I can do this with buckets and not burn though tin using water cells.

@Roseroar
The satellite pipe does not check the inventory, it is mearly a means to re-route items to somewhere else. In the scenario you describe you would have to have an external source of water buckets, either through a crafting or supplier pipe.
For it to use the bucket already in the chest you would need to remove the water bucket from the recipe, but then you would have to find some other way of always making sure that the chest has a sufficient supply of water buckets

@Roseroar: I performed the same thing, but I placed a few things extra to get what I needed:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24657744/pics/bogearth.png

Next to the chest filled with water buckets is a bench to make bog earth, and I tell it that the other chest (to the right) supplies the dirt and sand but is to keep 64 bog earth supplied to that chest at all times…notice the supplier line goes through a redstone which activates when a stack passes through.

Each time bog earth is made, each stack will trigger the counter to move up 1 position (the time it takes the provider to give the craftbench the material is enough time for the redstone signal to pulse before the next piece is crafted). When the counter moves up, it stops producing a signal on the left side, so the timer is allowed to turn. Each turn of the timer, reduces the counter and sends a pulse across the filters/deployer. Any extra bog earth is defaulted to the same chest that is supplied it, so not wasting any material (and sometimes giving a differential wait period).

On the other side of the chest, separated from that network completely, is simply a crafting pipe that says “4 dirt + 4 sand turns into 8 bog earth”….crafting pipes don’t care if it’s a work bench or not, which is awesome enough to work in this situation. Whenever the system needs bog earth, the craft pipe will request the material, HOWEVER, since the chest already has some in it, the pipe will immediately begin using it (so no wait period once the item is requested). The material will then land in the chest afterward, and will be dealt with internally by the mechanism described above (I keep 2 stacks of sand and dirt as a buffer).

There is no such module yet, and you’re right I shouldn’t keep multiple posts. The purpose of this was to get a preview out for testing that was a bit experimental, this thread should have been closed and will be closed now.