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navigation:
  parent: items-blocks-machines/items-blocks-machines-index.md
  title: Monitors
  icon: storage_monitor
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- devices
item_ids:
- ae2:storage_monitor
- ae2:conversion_monitor
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# Monitors

<GameScene zoom="8" background="transparent">
<ImportStructure src="../assets/assemblies/monitors.snbt" />
<IsometricCamera yaw="195" pitch="30" />
</GameScene>

Monitors allow visualization and interaction with a single item or fluid type, without opening a GUI.

Monitors will inherit the color of the [cable](cables.md) they are mounted on.

If the monitor is on the floor or ceiling, you can rotate it with a <ItemLink id="certus_quartz_wrench" />.

They are [cable subparts](../ae2-mechanics/cable-subparts.md).

# Storage Monitor

Will show an item or fluid and its quantity. Put them next to your farms or something...

Does *not* require a [channel](../ae2-mechanics/channels.md).

Keybinds:

*   Right-click with an item or double-right-click with a fluid container to set the monitor to that item/fluid.
*   Right-click with an empty hand to clear the monitor.
*   Shift-right-click with an empty hand to lock the monitor.

## Recipe

<RecipeFor id="storage_monitor" />

# Conversion Monitor

The Conversion Monitor is similar to a storage monitor, but allows you to insert or extract its configured item.

If the configured item is [autocraftable](../ae2-mechanics/autocrafting.md) and none are in storage, attemping to take an
item will instead open a UI to specify the amount to be crafted.

*Does* require a [channel](../ae2-mechanics/channels.md).

Additional keybinds:

*   Left-click to extract a stack of the configured item, or request craft of that item if none are in storage.
*   Right-click with any item to insert that item.
*   Right-click with an empty hand to insert all of the configured item from your inventory.

## Recipe

<RecipeFor id="conversion_monitor" />