[2.0.28] inserter not detecting stationary belt items

[3RIng]

there were quality items blended in. I was wrong

Concrete issue:

inserters are stuck in "Waiting for source items" when circuit conditions change the inserter from "disabled" to "enabled" and belt items are stationary.
moving the items "fixes the issue"


Inserter not seeing the items after conditions changing it from "disabled" to "enabled". The circuit logic is for the inserter to be "disabled" when the contents of the container it's inserting into is higher than the station average for that item. It was switched in this case due to bots removing items from the buffer chest it's inserting into

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This is fixed by "refreshing" the contents of the belt:

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Pure Conjecture as to cause:
A: I am dumb and this is due to me being dumb
B: bug in something to do with optimization where the inserter entity is being flagged with "nothing to pick up" instead of "disabled due to circuit logic" so when the inserter is enabled again it doesn't recheck if there is something to pick up.
C: ...aliens

[3RIng]

possibly related to:

125167

[computeraddict]

They're not quality circuits in front of them, right?

[3RIng]

good question, but no they are not. I checked before posting this and I also assumed that was the problem when checking it

No, I just rechecked and it seems like I am in fact dumb. Yes there were quality items there. The green dot blended in.

Ugh. Sorry for my 2nd erroneous report now!