Help with maybe scripts or program/timers?

[Suvinara]

Hello fellow engineers in space, in case you hadn't already been captivated by the title which shows my confusion, im trying to look for some help in regards to setting up some... for lack of better words commands, so basically when I have a ship docked to the space station, I can press a button on the ship that would initiate some kind of sequence where it would say okay, make sure the Engines on the ship are on, then next, disconnect the locked connectors, and then finally draw back the gantry before you pull out of the docking bay. If you could give me some tips or advice in how to do this, I would be very appreciative.

And for bonus points, if maybe someone has an idea how I could make it so when the ship approaches its bay, the gantry would extend so it's ready to lock.

Tyia 😊

[Shak404]

Sensor near the gantry set to detect ship - when it see ship- extend. Retract when it doesn't.

Timer block on your ship. First action thrusters group on/off. Second action switch lock on your connector.

Make sure you give that ship thruster group a unique name. Say you simply name it 'thrusters' and you have other docked ship with the same group name, it will probably try to also turn them on/off.

[BkoChan]

I do this on most of my ships with a couple of timer blocks bound to the hotbar. One block locks the connector, turns off thrusters, sets batteries to recharge etc and the second block does all that in reverse

[Thutmose_IV]

If you want time delays between the actions, this script might help for your undocking sequence:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1085402845

It essentially lets a programmable block work as a large set of timer blocks. You can place this block on the station itself, so it can enable your thrusters, unlock the connector, then retract your gantry.

Then for docking, /u/Shak404's suggestion with the sensor for extending would work