Ethercat HAL driver

Ok i changed the bitLen to 1 for each of the signals and the error went away - unfortunately while mapping that new bit to xenable, the HalPin changes, but not the drive state.

I did some researching, and it looks like the Kollmorgen AKD has a State Machine to enable the drive that consists of the first four bits of that control word.

To enable the axis I need to set that control word to 6, and then 15 to enable the amp and tell the drive to follow the set points over the bus.

Anyone have an idea how I would implement that logic?
if I could write teh control word to 6 when the estop was cleared and 15 when the machine was enabled that might work (then back to 6 when the machine disable) but I'm not sure how to implement that logic.

Best Regards,
Paul

Hi @Paul

Hmm, I tried implementing your change, but get an error on startup now:
lcec_conf: ERROR: Invalid complexEntry bitLen 0
it doesn't seem to like a bitlength of 0 - is there a different attribute like bitNum?
I can see why bit length might be an error.

sorry I was wrong, memory fails me, I attach a new file with the breakdown of the word status,

To enable the axis I need to set that control word to 6, and then 15 to enable the amp and tell the drive to follow the set points over the bus.

I think you have to look at what status pins you need, for example word 6 is (0110) and 15 (0001 0101)

Greeting
Chimeno

Thanks to everyone. I finally got this working. had to implement a few HAL components i havent used before, and theres still some clutter in my hal/ini from being converted from a step/dir implementation. But i was able to get the CAN state machine working over ethercat. I have attached my files in case anyone else has been struggling getting it working and wants an example using a Kollmorgen AKD servo drive.



Best Regards,
Paul

Hi.
Exist a complete procedure for installation ethercat on actual master 2.9-pre0 on debian Wheezy ?
Thanks

Hi @papagno-source
Here in the forum there are several examples of installations, simply install
1 install "ec-debianize" github.com/sittner/ec-debianize
2 install "linuxcnc-ethercat" github.com/sittner/linuxcnc-ethercat
any questions you have here we are.
regards
Chimeno

Hi Chimeno.
Excuse, i don't understand.
I dowload with git actual linuxcnc-dev.
Complile it on debian whhezy rtai.
After copy manually point 1 and pint 2 up link file and remake ?

Excuse i want know first step.