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Dead Simple Antenna Comms

There's a million examples on how to do antenna communications and it's crowded with obsolete, overcomplicated examples. This one works as of May 2023, and it's super easy.

Install the script into a programming block on any grid you want to send or receive commands. There must be an active antenna on the grid, too.

Names do not matter. You do not have to rename or edit anything.

Now you can trigger timer blocks on the other grids by simply typing their name in as an argument when you run the program block. You can do this by manually typing in the argument in the programming block's panel, or you can use a button to call the programming block with an argument.

It sends the argument to everyone that's listening, and they will try to instantly run a timer block with that name.

For example, I have a timer block named "Shutter" on my remote base.

If I'm in a ship and I call my ship's programming block with the argument "Shutter", my remote base will run the timer block named "Shutter" and, you guessed it, shutter the base.

This requires no mods or DLC, but it obviously requires in-game scripts to be turned on. Huge thanks to malware-dev's examples, as usual.