help with fully automatic honey bottle farm

Please DM me if you have ANY ideas, and are good with hive/hopper mechanics

so the beehive fills with honey (output of 4 redstone on a comparator, or just an observer with a copper bulb to half it's outputs),

i need the dispenser to always have empty bottles in it, but not too much as to either have no free slots or use up all the bottles

[1 side – measuring it]

i need a carousel of bottles above it i have one hopper between this and my dispenser,

[1 side – above]

i need to have the filled bottles come out the bottom

[1 side – below]

i need the hive in front of the dispenser's hole obviously

[1 side]

they're stacked sideways so i can't use the sides, not that it'd matter because most i can move it would be a block separating it, and the comparators need two to be useful and not interfere, so only useful for the carousel inserter, which would then have the actual carousel still above the dispenser

and i need to put something to read when the hive has honey and make it power the dispenser once when it is full, WHERE TF DO I SLAM THE ACTIVATOR INTO IT

i have been slamming my head against the wall for a while on this, i then took a break, and went into a creative world on my xbox to fully test it,

image notes

1. first draft (ignore the left part)

2. how to stop too many bottles entering the dispenser [note the dispenser's output sorter]

3. a modified version of 2 where i can't use all below spaces [look at the lamp]

4. a fixed version of 3

5. module 4 attached to the main device

6. contemplating how to trigger the dispenser once the hive is full

7. attempt to get power from the hive [note that all 4 dispenser inputs are in use]

8. an idea of moving the piston

9. an attempt to have a pre-powered hive moved into the dispenser when full [just a test and wouldn't work as of the grass and flower position needed on the hive] ??? might be a way here

10. the ability to put a torch on a barrel rather than a chest [note that the torch would then be powering the output hopper, disabling it]