Writing to slots: ss and sbs

So far you have only read slots. A few devices also let you write into a slot: then you switch not the device but whatever sits inside. The helmet in the suit storage, the valve of a gas canister, the appliances on a bench.

Which slots are writable#

Whether a slot is writable depends on the kind of slot, not on its content. In the game code there are exactly three LogicSlotTypes for it:

A locker has slots of no particular kind. If you write into one, the chip reports IncorrectLogicSlotType. If a device cannot write slots at all, the error is called DeviceNotSlotWriteable.

If nothing sits in the slot, writing simply does nothing, and there is no error either.

ss: one device#

ss writes into a slot of one device. Like s it needs a pin, a register with a ReferenceId or db. It knows no names:

alias canisters d0
ss canisters 0 Open 1       # open the valve of the canister in slot 0

That is why this lesson uses a pin for once.

sbs: all of a type#

sbs writes the same slot on all devices of a type on the network:

sbs BENCH 0 On 0            # appliance 1 on all benches off
sbs BENCH 1 On 0            # appliance 2 on all benches off

There is no sbns with a name. If you only want to hit certain devices, use ss with a pin or a ReferenceId.