Re: [etherlab-users] DC questions

2016-06-20 Thread Graeme Foot
Hi, Try having a look at: https://www.mail-archive.com/etherlab-users@etherlab.org/msg02641.html The post above shows the general flow of my program. I use RTAI. Below are the structures and functions I currently use to sync the master to the slave reference master. I think there's also

[etherlab-users] ethercat absolut encoders

2016-06-20 Thread Javier Gomez
Hey there, Anybody are interested in a absolute ethercat encoder?, I have two, It was purchased for a hexpod project but it was no going. Best regards Javier Gomez ___ etherlab-users mailing list etherlab-users@etherlab.org

[etherlab-users] Detect the loss of EtherCAT communication

2016-06-20 Thread Christoph Schroeder
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

[etherlab-users] R: DC questions

2016-06-20 Thread Tommaso
Thank you both for your answers. I would like to get again your help in order to find a little example, focused only on the synchronization part, for the b method introduced by Graeme, because I have already tried something but the application continuosly sends the "Failed to get reference