For anyone else that comes across this thread after encountering the issue, thankfully there is a workaround that is not too difficult to implement. From the output inserter connect a green wire to the input and output of a decider combinator. Connect the input inserter by a red wire to the output o...

I've done a bit more testing and I think you've got it exactly right boskid. If the inserters update in the order input-output then the item has already been picked up before the end of the tick and the trashing update doesn't see the item. If the inserters update in the order output-input then the ...

Sometimes inserters can pass items to each other without passing through the inventory of the entity between them. What did you do? I have items being passed through a requester chest by two inserters. The requester chest has trash unrequested on. What happened? Sometimes items are passed through th...

After further observation the behaviour is even more inconsistent than storage chests behaving differently than providers and buffers. Sometimes the storage chest will cause the logistic network request signal to update by the exact contents and other times it will report the over-reserved value. I ...

I have also encountered this inconsistency while playing. Storage chests will cause an exact number to be set in the read logistic network request signal while other chests will cause an overestimate until the bot arrives. In my use case using a storage chest gets the behaviour I need where I can fi...