Re: [Machinekit] Seeed to design and build Machinekit focused Cape for BeagleBone Black/AI

2020-06-10 Thread Juha Heikkilä
Hello, Sorry if I came out rude, that was not my intention. As for BBB and EtherCat, if you use the ”standard” one with a LAN port you dont need a cape at all, assuming that you would be able to sacrifice the ring topology. Running it headless and using a usb wlan, you would be able to keep the

RE: [Machinekit] Seeed to design and build Machinekit focused Cape for BeagleBone Black/AI

2020-06-09 Thread Juha Heikkilä
Hmm out of curiosity why would you require 2 separate EtherCat ports or is it just for a ring topology? If you can settle for just one, you could run the igh EtherCat master stack on the BBB and use available LAN port. So if one is enough, no need to mixup the cape with the EtherCat stuff.