So I had a problem. I wanted to be able to broadcast a set of circuit signals representing a list of required items for a given outpost. The problem was that the radio only supports green and red channels leading to N>3 outputs intermixing signals.
Solution: Use a repeating clock that sends a signal only if Z={{my_chosen_channel_num}}. There's some odd stuff going on combinator wise to keep signal values in memory while the Z timer is on a different channel. Also requires a single clock radio blueprint in order to keep receivers and transmitters in-sync with one another.
This is my first time fiddling with circuits more advanced than if X > Y inserter_enabled so if you find a way to make this better LMK
In computing this sort of a problem would generally be solved by tagging via packet metadata - wouldn't it be simpler to reserve a portion of the signal for a recipient address for signal decoding?
That would be way easier. I'm a dumb.
I mean TDMA is also a perfectly valid solution.
Just needs an easier way to synchronize clocks. Maybe one (master) station could send out a sync word that lets all other stations start their clocks.
The easy solution to clock sync was to only have one clock. There's some funkiness required to TX a signal during the TX's clock cycle due to combinator timing but, I used that to my advantage on the RX side as it now only requires a single frame delay combinator to keep the signal alive 100% of the time.