I stumbled upon the titled mod and it partially works with Fluidic Power (when poles are placed via robots and blueprints). The mod displays the utilization of machines... as in what percent they are busy over an interval of time. I think the info for the poles is relevant, not as in how much power... but how busy the poles are.

I am not sure why it has issues when I place the pole by hand, it would be great if it worked by manual placement too. Would this a Fluidic Power issue or an issue with the Utilization Monitor mod?

link: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/UtilizationMonitorBlargh

This is due to the hacky tricks I have to do when placing a power pole, which is probably not ideal yet. I'm creating the hidden generators in the pole "silently" so that other mods don't interfere with it. That's why it doesn't work when placing it by hand. But when placing by blueprint, for some reason, the blueprint knows about the hidden entities. I can't recall if this is by design or not. But because it's part of the blueprint, when it's placed other mods will know about it, and then it works.

I understand that this would be nice to have, but I don't think I'll change the behaviour now. That part of the mod is very finicky, and I'll likely rewrite it completely when 2.0 comes out anyway. If all goes well though then the mod you linked will probably not work at all though XD. But when Fluidic Power is stable again after 2.0 I might consider something like this.

Thanks for the suggestion though, always appreciate the feedback :)

Hey there! I'm the author/maintainer of the UtilizationMonitorBlargh mod 0n0w1c mentioned above. I'm guessing by silently, you mean you don't have trigger_created_entity set? In which case, yeah, going to be rough to catch those without rescan.

I'm curious - why do it? You say so that other mods don't interfere with it - which ones have you found doing it?

Yeah, or more precisely, with raise_built set to false here.

I'm creating the hidden generators in the pole "silently" so that other mods don't interfere with it.

My thought when I wrote it was that this is a hidden entity that the player shouldn't know about, and thus other mods don't need to know about it either, because there's a possibility of unwanted interactions. For example, let's say a mod wants to prevent placing generators on a specific tile by listening on the creation event. That would backfire here, because the poles would then be unplacable on that tile too. However, this might be too restrictive for mods actually improving the experience, like yours. Maybe I can raise it in the rewrite, not sure yet.

Theoretically I could just change it to true now, but it might have either side-effects, and I don't want to spend too much time until I rewrite all the logic in Factorio 2.0. This was the first real mod I wrote, so the code is really spaghetti and unmaintainable, especially the placement logic.