Cyborg
You can just put a solar panel in same position as a farm

hello.
nice script thank you.

how can we make it work with Algea farm blocks from last Apex update please ?

what could become an example

will it work with something other than solar panel?

this works really well. the key is to wait some time. if you come back to the screen 5 minutes later your station figured it out and is looking to the sun.

That fixed the deathspin my station was on :)
Thank you very much.

Naggert Try now (fixed)

Any chance you know how to stop this script from running? I tried adding "off" to the argument in the programmable block, but it does nothing.
Thanks in advance.

...and the wierd part...had to start the world over (cause I got stupid) but have same ship, same script, but different panel layout (although all in the same plane as before) and it works fine. Thanks..:)

I put this in my ship and it just spins...figured maybe because gyros have different alignments with respect to each other, so turned off all but one, same thing. Removed it and aligned it with the panels to match the video...same thing.

agh ok

If your construction can be managed by Gyros - yes. An example . At now on a planet good to be use windmils.

does this work for a solar array on a planet will it follow it?

I think, it can be a inertia issue. Also I think solar panels is not effective for so huge grid. Anyway if you share a blueprint, I can help.

This doesn't seem to work very well on my mobile base with a weight of 14mkg. Seems like it only turns in 1 axis and completely ignores the roll.

It works! Thanks.

Denis J :P It's solved. Now it affectcs the same grid only. Thanks for the suggestion.

Bug report/Suggestion

For satellites perfect but for spaceships and stations bad.

I have a station with solar panels on rotors, on solar panels I have gyroscope with programmable block. After the script is loaded, everything works as it should. The problem arises when I connect my spaceship to the station via the docking port.
The fundamental problem is that the script takes over all gyroscopes on all connected grids. If the script worked only for one grid and would not transfer its effect to other grids, then this script would be my favorite. :-)

Please fix this problem, nice work.

for TheMoran.
You are completetly right. The Gyroscopes is still overrided when Program block is off.
I added some lines to the script as solution.

Great script, one question: after i first activated it on my mobile satellite i started having this simple problem: even turning off the programmable block or grinding it away it becamed totally impossible to move the satellite, thrusters are going but no movement at all, any hint?

In the video? Because The Sun moves too fast, but anyway, panels still can find the energy.

Why do the stalks flip around?

As I sayed, accuracy is 99%. I use this script on probes in idle mod. It works well.

Any word on the effectiveness of this?

It might be good for the farms. The script reduces the cpu utilization in idle mode. And is not activated at all at once. (Accuracy of positioning is 99%, it is 360/100*2=7.2 degrees).

This seems like it would be very suitable for solar farms. I'll have to give this a try.

Yes, it works only for attached and controllable gyroscopes. Optionally you can choose, which solar panel is a sensor for all or what happends when grid is in shadow of the asteroid. All features is described in first lines.

Is this limited to the same grid as the programmable block?