put robots to roboport from spidertron

[anniver]

this was working before 2.0.28 but it got removed after the update to fix a bug in 123638
i tried to let the inserter grab the bots from spidertron and put them into roboport, but this does not work neither (maybe only work on cars and tanks?)
now there is no way to refill the construction bots in roboport remotely when they got destroyed by worms...

a reference to the original post: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=123632

[CyberCider]

Have you tried using ghost items?

[anniver]

yes I tried, it does not work in 2.0.28 due the bug fix
before the update it was all working fine. put ghost bots in the roboport and they will fly themselves to the roboport from the spidertron

[CyberCider]

I read the bug report, and if I understand correctly, this can be worked around. Just make the spidertron carry more robots than its personal roboports can activate. The fix says it prevents robots from carrying themselves, but not necessarily other construction robots. I would test it myself, but I don’t have access to my PC at the moment.

[Muche]

What can be currently done is to have a robotport and logistic robot(s) in it. Place a storage chest next to it.
Go to the spidertron, set a construction bot logistic request to (N-2)..(N-1), where N is the number of construction bots in the spidertron.
This puts one construction bot into trash slot. Logistic bot will take it into the chest. Place an inserter to put it to the roboport.

[anniver]

I read the bug report, and if I understand correctly, this can be worked around. Just make the spidertron carry more robots than its personal roboports can activate. The fix says it prevents robots from carrying themselves, but not necessarily other construction robots. I would test it myself, but I don’t have access to my PC at the moment.

This doesn't work.
I have a spidertron carrying 200 construction bots (150 of those are from logistic request) next to a roboport. The bots will not go to the roboport to fill the ghost image.

[tarr11]

I was able to do this by creating a train station, putting a roboport next to it, and then inserting the robots from another station and dropping it off. You can insert the robots directly from the cargo train into the roboport to bootstrap things.