Dear Anson, For most EtherCAT slaves you will not be able to set any output via console. Reason is a PDO timeout, for Beckhoff slaves I think 500ms. If there is no update in this time, the slave will go back to its failsafe state.
You will have to write an c or cpp programm. Best regards Andreas Am Donnerstag, dem 20.04.2023 um 20:51 +0530 schrieb Anson Paul: > Hi All, > I am new to this IGH Ethercat master thing. > I am using > Ubuntu 20.04 5.4 kernel > rt preempt_kernel version is 5.4.69-rt39 > NIC-e1000 > IGH ethercat master-1.5.2 334c34cfd2e5 version > I am using slaves of beckhoff modules > 1.EK1100 Coupler > 2.EL1008 Digital Input > 3.EL2008 Digital Output > > Igh master was up when running the command > sudo /etc/init.d/ethercat restart > Igh master was able to detect the slaves > when running > ethercat master > ethercat slaves > I wanted to run Blink the digital output Led in EL2008 digital output > I was able to run the ethercat cstruct -p2 and got the pdos available > in the Digital output module. > Are there any terminal commands available to blink the led? > > I have got a reference giving the cpp code on how to do that > https://www.mailarchive.com/etherlabus...@etherlab.org/msg03184.html > Can anyone guide me how i can run this cpp program or the programs > given in the examples/user/main.c? > > Thanks in advance, > > Anson
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