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I asked if this was possible, here - viewtopic.php?f=18&t=124911&p=654623 but didn't get much notice.


Summary - please give roboports functionality to read active bot stats by item, not just total count.

What and why? - I'd like to be able to up cycle my robots if I have excess.

I can do this with stored bots, but not active ones. Let's say I have 1000 normal bots and am producing more. Anything over 1000 should be pulled out of service and recycled. Those parts then build higher quality bots and are put back into service. This leaves my bot network intact and slowly upgrades it passively.

I think you can solve this more or less by existing methods.

Request 10 normal construction bots in the roboport. If number of total bots > 100, grab those 10 bots and recycle them. That ensures a reserve.
If you just want to know total count of bots, request 0 of each bot quality in the roboport and the tooltip will tell you total count. You can't read those counts with circuits, but those counts are nice to read off to get an overview of the status of the roboport network.