I haven't really looked at the Vanilla one's code, but it's quite likely that the limitation on who can use the device is completely arbitrary. Battery usage is also easily tweakable, so the devs probably made them like so on purpose.

As for getting more data, I absolutely agree. Reading reactor data from a PDA would be awesome, as well as checking critical components' statuses.

Once again, if anyone wants to still use my mod for whatever reason, be my guest. :)

For me personally I think your mod is much better than Vanillia feature, since it also uses less battery, can be used by everyone, and provides all info similar to Vanillia but better in every way.

If anything the vanillia one is just poorly conceived since technician and mechanic should get more data. Like Electrician getting power data from reactor and mechanic getting broken machine data on their PDA. ( Talking about things Devs should have added to Vanillia game for their PDA's )

@The | Suit
I suppose you're right. You can even buy the modded PDA from shops without needing to level your skills up, so it's good for beginner crews.

You say its obselete but only Technician can end up getting it right?
So your mod still would be useful for Soldier \ Medic \ Captain

dya think you could make a portable research table?

@Iridescent Lightning
I'm not even sure if that'd be possible. Navigation Terminals requires wire connections to function, unlike Status Monitors. If anything, it's probably beyond my skills, sorry man :(

can you make a portable navigation terminal

It's a shame that the mod is obsolete now, but keep working on new stuff! I loved this mod

Yay! :D

Mod was replaced by Handheld Status Monitor , available in Mechanic's Technician tree at level 2.

Mod was added into vanilla. Congrats!

hmm, but then you would need a way to figure out if that function is needed on the sub.
maybe its not worth the effort

connectors = detectors

to link water detectors and oxygen connectors to a status monitor, you just need wire them up to the status monitor, probably using wifi. if you could get the status pda to be able to read signals from wifi and select a channel to read from, it should work.
you could also use that function to make remote handheld buttons, probably.

Unless a more experienced modder was to help me, I'm afraid not. As far as I know, in order to link a normal status monitor to water detectors it needs to be done through Submarine Editor.

damn, is there any way you could link it to a status monitor on the ship?

@guesswho2778
No, the handheld monitor does not require water detectors - if you craft the upgraded version it will read water levels regardless of your ship's status monitor. It won't read air levels though.

i really like this mod, but do you know if it works when the status monitor requires air detectors and water detectors wired to it from each room?
basically what i want to know is, will the water level readout for a room dissapear on the handheld monitor if the rooms water detector gets unwired?

Fair point. Should be updated by now.

I'm not sure why you decided deconstruction should give less stuff than fabrication. This only held true for items that have consumable component (such as welding fuel). If item can work pretty much permanently (not counting supply of battery power or oxygen), then there's no reason to not give back all materials when deconstructed