Channels allow devices to communicate with each other. It’s a wireless version of wires!
Channels are basically one giant group chat with all the devices on your map. They can all send messages in the chat and & run actions when others send messages in the chat.
The events/actions you might use wires for, you can also use channels! For example, let’s look at this option in the Item Granter device.
With this option, we can type in a name of a channel, and the Item Granter will grant the item when it receives a message on that channel.
You can use an unlimited number of channel names. Plus, there is no need to create a device for a channel or anything like that. Simply just type in the name of the channel! In this case, since this Item Granter grants cash, we’ll name our channel grant cash.
Let’s say we want to grant some cash when a player presses a button. We’ll bring in the Button device to do that.
We can modify the button, and when it is pressed, we can set a channel for it to transmit on!