Having a piston pause itself

[smartie]

Quick question:

I have a piston which pauses itself at the end of the piston (another piston resumes it under certain conditions.) The virtual pause command works just fine (I can view the piston and see it’s paused) but it doesn’t show down at the bottom for the grayed out paused pistons. I did a search on this and found at least one other person posted the same question back in 2018, but there was no response. Again, this doesn’t impact my piston, but I’m wondering why a virtual pause command won’t move the piston to the paused section, while a manual post of the pause button does?

Here’s the question asked previously:

Bug?: Piston pauses itself, but doesn’t get grayed out

I have a couple of pistons that i’m using to control my good morning routine. The primary piston only fires if I’m home alone. If my girlfriend is over, it doesn’t go off as she usually gets up later than I do. However, some days she gets up at the same time. If this is the case, then I have another piston that I keep paused and will resume (triggered with a virtual switch). When this happens the usual good morning piston is paused and my “force good morning” piston is active. The final command…

[WCmore]

I am going to guess that the moment it pauses itself, it can no longer complete the final “cleanup” steps.

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For a morbid analogy… If I wanted to commit suicide and dispose of the body afterwards, then I would need someone else to do the dirty work (or else my body would remain where it fell).

[smartie]

Poor piston

[WCmore]

Apologies for the gruesome analogy…

Note: If another hitman *cough* piston kills this one, then the cleanup steps completes as expected.