[RTnet-users] Calibration question

[Vareka, Bill]

In our situation, the Master will be powered up and start running and then over time the slaves will be powered up.  In addition, slaves can be disconnected for periods of time and then reconnected to the network.  This happens without user intervention and potentially without warning.  The new TDMA v2 structure supports hot plugging of slaves which is what we'd need but I have a question.  How does calibration work in this case?  Looking at the code it appears that the Master performs a calibration routine when he's first enabled (after waiting to look for other masters) via the tdmacfg command.  Suppose there are no slaves online yet.  I assume the master just transitions into run mode and waits for messages.  Then after a little while the slave is powered up.  Is any calibration automatically performed or are slaves run with defaults for calibration?  Whether automatic or not, what happens to other high priority RT master messages if we start a calibration sequence after we're up and running?     Thanks for any info you can provide.   Bill