EasyCAT Arduino shield

accidentally flashed my ethercat servo with something wrong, and restored everything with this tool and the original esi xml

so yes, it really works

I use it to configure my LAN9252 board

EDIT:
uhhh, found this site: markosankovic.github.io/2016/06/28/esi-to-sii-binary.html
i think i need to test this ' '
I must have overlooked it somehow




 

because of the strange licenses from siitool i will write my own in python

I see, the "-m" flag makes it write the pdos.
But what about the sdos? I don't see them coming over.

I haven't seen it yet either but I haven't used it yet either

The xml to eeprom translation is a missing piece. With the pdos and sdos. Siitool comes halfway.
Currently I see no other option than to use TwinCAT. If there was a way for TwinCAT to only do
the translation of xml into an eeprom binary file that would help. But no, I have to take out the card
from the machine and bring it to the Windows/Twincat machine and flash the eeprom from the xml file
with TwinCAT.

If you like JavaScript, you can start from the eeprom_generator which already can do the eeprom content,
without pdos and sdos again. There is a src/generators/EEPROM.js you can have a look at.
EasyCAT uses LAN9252 I have read so should be directly usable.
github.com/MetalMusings/MyOwnEtherCATDev...ils/EEPROM_generator
 

already a good starting point

github.com/multigcs/esitool

new discovery, there is no sdos data in the eeprom.

could not find any in the documentation or in a sanmotion servo eeprom, the data is probably read from the firmware.

You are right.
I read out eeprom from a slave I know has SDOs.
But nothing with the SDO names in the eeprom bin file.
So, it is possible the siitools -m could produce a good eeprom.
I'll test later this evening, I have a device I can experiment with.

Yes it works! Awesome!
That -m flag made all the difference.
I took the XML file and generated an eeprom content with wrote that to the eeprom with Made sure to reset the device and do a And yes yes yes, it works. Thanks man. Will save me a lot of walking
between the workshop and the "office".

ready for testing:
github.com/multigcs/esitool/

there are some testfiles in tests/
and they are all bit exactly as generated by the siitool

but i need more testfiles and maybe some tester