Hello, i'm doing a feasability study with Etherlab's Ethercatmaster. As i'm quite new to to this topic some questions arose. I'd be glad to find some help here.
My hardware i'm using: - EtherCAT Coupler EK1100 - Digital Output EL2002 - Digital Input EL1002 - DeviceNet Master EL6752 - ProfiNet Master EL6631 - ProfiBus Master EL6731 As slave i'm using an IPC with corresponding Profi*/DeviceNet - Slave cards from Hilscher GmbH. A PC has been setup with Ethercatmaster (Stable 1.5.2) on a Fedora machine (3.15.7.x86_64). (Later i'd like to convert to a BeagleBoneBlack or Raspberry Pi.) Adapting the program in /~/ethercat-hg/examples/user/ i was happy to achive some blinking on my EL2002. What i'm trying to achive now is: - First i'd like to establish a basic communication between master<->slave (all LEDs green) - On slave side i've got a program sending a heartbeatsignal to the master (set bit 0 or 1). I'd like to see that heartbeat for example using /$ ./ethercat data /and in the next step let the DigitalII EL1002 blink to that heartbeat. Is thi*s generally achieveable? Has someone experimented with Ethercatmaster & EL6631? * I startet off analogically to this email: http://lists.etherlab.org/pipermail/etherlab-users/2012/001862.html Also I understand i have to enter my desired Inputs/Outputs via /ec_pdo_entry_info_t/? But do i need to somehow add the GSDML file of the slave to my porgram? Like in TwinCat? Are there any tutorials or example programs out there to wrap my head around and if, could someone please point me there? Google didn't dig up a lot to nothing. Attached you'll find the xml file of the EL6631. Any help, tips, links will be greatly appreciated! :) With best regards, Carlos Herkt
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