Hi All, is there any other way for a slave to detect a failure of EtherCAT communication besides the syncmanager watchdogs e.g. connection loss between 2 slaves or a failure of the user application? The syncmanager watchdog only works for buffered mode but not for mailbox mode which has acyclic communication. Background: our slaves will use mainly mailbox communication (VoE) which is most suitable for our purpose. We solved this problem by introducing a status byte as PDO which also has a watchdog configured. I am still eager to know if there is some other possibility for a slave to detect missing EtherCAT communication.
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