Animal Farmer with shears upgrade won't pull shears from inventory

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I'm trying to automate my animal farmer, so I have an Extra Utilities Rationing Pipe going into the farmer, loaded with shears. It ensures there is one shears in the farmer. But it doesn't fuzzy match, so at any point in time there is a used shears in the shears slot, and one new shears in the inventory.

I believe I recall that this works fine for the chopper (the chopper will pull an axe from its inventory), but here in the farmer it doesn't seem to work.

Is this fixable? It would sure be convenient. I'm still searching for something like the rationing pipe that can fuzzy match now. Or if the farmer was able to emit redstone when it ran out of shears then I could work with that. Or if it just naturally was somehow able to accept one shears and no more into its inventory...

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An AE2 storage bus with a level emitter can detect the presence of a shears at any "health" level; it is not detecting whether shears are loaded in the shear slot, only detecting it from the 3x3 inventory, no matter what mode I set the side to.

I placed a chest next to the farmer with shears in it, the farmer did not pick up the shears automatically.

Not sure what else to try (other than a different automated shear device from some other mod).

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I updated to the latest build and this issue is fixed! I think it was fixed by d3d594c (similar to #167).

Thanks a lot! These went from very frustrating to very automatable.

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By the way for anyone who encounters this: since I use AE2 for storage, I simply hooked up an export bus to the side of the farmer, used the wrench to mark that side as Input, and set the export bus to export shears. Now they automatically go right into the shears slot, and the farmer doesn't accept any more shears until the current pair is broken.