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Simple Solar Rotor Controller

@Ghoughpteighbteau I just posted a new version that judges rotor position based on only the panels attached to the currently operating rotor

@Ghoughpteighbteau that's actually at the top:

const String ROTOR_TAG = "Solar";

But if multiple controllers run concurrently they'll confuse each other; not sure how to work around that without giving up "simple"

@Lifernal nah just the one. To be fair, even with 3 arrays (6 rotors), this script still manages to mostly work, it just bugs out a little when the sun reaches the zeinth.

How bad would it be to add a constant to the top of this script that specifies a group that contains the rotors and solar panels for it to track? As an alternative to having "Solar" in the name.

Then we go in to the control panel, select the panels and rotors and put them all in the same group, then set the constant in the programmable block.

That should keep the script pretty simple, right? That would let me have multiple arrays without things going screwy when the sun gets near the zeinth.

@Ghoughpteighbteau Are you using multiple programmable blocks to control each set of rotors? If so, don't :D

It's necessary to only have one solar rotor moving at a time (the script cycles through them in turn.) If two different rotors turn concurrently, it'll get confused, since it's measuring the output of all solar panels to achieve alignment. (If I added the ability to associate panels to specific rotors, it wouldn't be "simple" anymore.)

This works pretty well, but multiple arrays kinda messes this thing up, because power is changing constantly in aggregate across the panels, it gets the wrong idea once you have enough solar trackers.

Thank you so much for making this. Works like a dream. The loss in power from manually aligning them every five minutes is pretty big.