Hi,

I'm quite new to EtherCAT and while I managed to run a simple system (2 EL2004 
modules), I'm facing two issues (maybe related) with a Beckhoff ELM3004 module 
(and SDOs in general). I already searched heavily for solutions and tried many 
things but I'm now kind of lost...

First issue is :

I can activate the master and enter the cylic task without issue, and the 
ELM3004 goes into OP state. If I now stop my master (getting out of the cyclic 
task loop and releasing the master), the ELM3004 is stuck in OP (with the Error 
tag) state, while the 2 EL2004 modules do properly return to the PREOP state. I 
do no understand this behavior nor have any idea of how to diagnosis the 
problem.

Second one :

I cannot make RT SDOs (using requests) work. The request creation, before 
master activation, does work. However calling a request, either read or write, 
always ends up with "busy' states only for the request until the timeout is 
reached, and then the request state naturally goes into 'error'. This is for 
various frequency checks (from 1kHz to 1 Hz). I tried to replicate the mini 
exemple, and behavior is similar. Note that everything related to the EtherCAT 
system is on the same thread, if it matters (I have a QT Gui on another 
thread). FYI, I want to use RT SDO to be able to test modules easily and also 
run diagnosis.


On a side note, is there any possibility to reset//reboot an EtherCAT module 
(or whole domain//master) from a software perspective only? When the ELM3004 is 
stuck the only way for me to clean thing is to reboot the system...

Thanks a lot,

Romain
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