Hallo Justin,
pdcom and pdserv are the two ends of an Ethernet! communication library
which connect the process data from an realtime process to the consumer
clients. pdserv handles the realtime process side and pdcom the client
side. Both libraries have no dependency on EtherCat.
To answer your question:
No, you can't use pdcom to stream data directly from EtherCat devices.
The EtherCat master library is the interface to your devices. One needs
an C or C++ application to gather data from an EtherCat device. Look at
the examples which come with the EtherCat Master. Alternatively this
application can be build with Matlab/Simulink and the help of EtherLab.
To make the data of your application available to other processes (via
network) one can use pdserv (which is used by EtherLab).
Consumers like DLS and applications build with QtPdWidgets use pdcom.
Regards Wilhelm.
Am 10.02.2017 um 20:53 schrieb Justin Hunt:
Hello Everyone,
I was looking into the PdCom library and it appears that it can be used
independently of the other Etherlab software components. Does this mean
that I can use it directly to stream data from an ethercat device to my
Linux computer?
Thanks,
Justin
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