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Hello, <br>
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i'm doing a feasability study with Etherlab's Ethercatmaster. As
i'm quite new to to this topic some questions arose. I'd be glad to
find some help here. <br>
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My hardware i'm using: <br>
- EtherCAT Coupler EK1100<br>
- Digital Output EL2002<br>
- Digital Input EL1002<br>
- DeviceNet Master EL6752<br>
- ProfiNet Master EL6631<br>
- ProfiBus Master EL6731<br>
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As slave i'm using an IPC with corresponding Profi*/DeviceNet -
Slave cards from Hilscher GmbH. <br>
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A PC has been setup with Ethercatmaster (Stable 1.5.2) on a Fedora
machine (3.15.7.x86_64).<br>
(Later i'd like to convert to a BeagleBoneBlack or Raspberry Pi.)<br>
Adapting the program in <i>~/ethercat-hg/examples/user</i> i was
happy to achive some blinking on my EL2002. <br>
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What i'm trying to achive now is: <br>
- First i'd like to establish a basic communication between
master<->slave (all LEDs green)<br>
- On slave side i've got a program sending a heartbeatsignal to the
master (set bit 0 or 1). I'd like to see that heartbeat for example
using <i>$ ./ethercat data </i>and in the next step let the
DigitalII EL1002 blink to that heartbeat. <br>
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Is thi<b>s generally achieveable? Has someone experimented with
Ethercatmaster & EL6631?<br>
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I startet off analogically to this email:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.etherlab.org/pipermail/etherlab-users/2012/001862.html">http://lists.etherlab.org/pipermail/etherlab-users/2012/001862.html</a><br>
Also I understand i have to enter my desired Inputs/Outputs via <i>ec_pdo_entry_info_t</i>?<br>
But do i need to somehow add the GSDML file of the slave to my
porgram? Like in TwinCat? <br>
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Are there any tutorials or example programs out there to<br>
wrap my head around and if, could someone please point me there?
Google didn't dig up a lot to nothing.<br>
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Attached you'll find the xml file of the EL6631. <br>
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Any help, tips, links will be greatly appreciated! :)<br>
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With best regards,<br>
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Carlos Herkt<br>
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