Microcontroller cannot be placed in map editor mode

[Grundik]

Attempt to place microcontroller in map editor mode causes following error:

  78.121 Error MainLoop.cpp:1204: Exception at tick 49556197: The mod MicroController caused a non-recoverable error.
Please report this error to the mod author.

Error while running event m-microcontroller::on_built_entity (ID 6)
__m-microcontroller__/control.lua:88: bad argument #1 of 2 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil)
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'ipairs'
        __m-microcontroller__/control.lua:88: in function <__m-microcontroller__/control.lua:80>

Factorio versioin: 0.18.2, MicroController version: 0.5.4

[Grundik]

Error no longer occurs in 0.18.3