Re: [Etherlab-users] IL EC BK ethercat modules configuration seems to prevent going to SAFEOP

2023-03-23 Thread Jonas Vantilt
Hi Wilhelm, It seems I indeed incorrectly understood the commandline tool as I tried to put the slave into Operational. I tried to use the commandline tool to find out what steps were missing in order to get the slave to operational. I am using the ethercat library inside orocos, here is the

Re: [Etherlab-users] IL EC BK ethercat modules configuration seems to prevent going to SAFEOP

2023-03-20 Thread Dr.-Ing. Wilhelm Hagemeister
Hallo Jonas, I get the idea that there might be a misunderstanding in how to use the ethercat library/master: The ethercat master module does some bus scanning in idle mode and the commandline tool can be used for maintenance tasks but you need an cyclic application to exchange data with an

[Etherlab-users] IL EC BK ethercat modules configuration seems to prevent going to SAFEOP

2023-03-20 Thread Jonas Vantilt
Dear etherlab users, I am working with an ethercat bus coupler of Phoenix Contact: IL EC BK. This works differently from Beckhoff ethercat bus couplers (EK1100), which I have been using in the past. Phoenix Contact works with Ethercat modules which are added to the bus coupler. Hence, there is