Long range Wireless Sensor

[TheExceed]

I would love to see new sensors that can be connected over a distance. 
Like I want to run a pump of only if a part of water across the map is low.
Going that distance with refined metal is not likely.

Have it get it's own research tier and require electrical engineer and cost a bit of refined metal and a microchip.
On the topic of microchips. Their power increase should be decreased but make it an accumulated permanent buff.
Change the recipe a bit to require a bit of gold and a bit of iron and a bit of copper. Makes keeping copper until late a good idea.

[Gabrysiek]

Too OP. You don't need to mess with wire spaghetti, you can just use wireless sensor and don't give a crap about wiring.

[goboking]

3 hours ago, Gabrysiek said:

Too OP. You don't need to mess with wire spaghetti, you can just use wireless sensor and don't give a crap about wiring.

Make the transmitter and/or receiver require power to balance it out.  Or give it a limited set of frequencies so they can't be spammed everywhere.

[crypticorb]

A similar idea:

Rather than a wireless sensor of different types, such as a wireless atmo switch, why not have a wireless connector.

I can think of tons of useful applications for this. There are numerous times I have a trigger for a pump or shutoff valve that is in the base, but the pump itself is half the map away, requiring lengthy automation cable runs.

One example use is a having wireless connector A next to a thermo switch in the base, triggering a pump next to connector B in the cold biome next to my A.E.T.N. to supply some coolant into the base.

[TheExceed]

 

33 minutes ago, crypticorb said:

A similar idea:

Rather than a wireless sensor of different types, such as a wireless atmo switch, why not have a wireless connector.

I can think of tons of useful applications for this. There are numerous times I have a trigger for a pump or shutoff valve that is in the base, but the pump itself is half the map away, requiring lengthy automation cable runs.

One example use is a having wireless connector A next to a thermo switch in the base, triggering a pump next to connector B in the cold biome next to my A.E.T.N. to supply some coolant into the base.

@Gabrysiek It's really not that op but then they can set a min distance away that they have to be for the transmission to work. And again, make the crafting difficult/complicated and make it real end game like most automation.

[Flydo]

9 hours ago, TheExceed said:

I would love to see new sensors that can be connected over a distance. 
Like I want to run a pump of only if a part of water across the map is low.
Going that distance with refined metal is not likely.

Have it get it's own research tier and require electrical engineer and cost a bit of refined metal and a microchip.
On the topic of microchips. Their power increase should be decreased but make it an accumulated permanent buff.
Change the recipe a bit to require a bit of gold and a bit of iron and a bit of copper. Makes keeping copper until late a good idea.

I work to made a wifi transmettor for sensors in nuclear plant, so i can just say a big YES for that