Ethercat auto configurator.

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1 year 10 months ago #316036 by Salame

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Hi, I couldn't find a way to DM you, for personal info and driver and motor specs etc..

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1 year 10 months ago #316043 by Grotius

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Hi Salame,

My contact michelwijnja@gmail.com
The mail is also visible here : codeberg.org/skynet

Thanks a lot for your proposal so far !!
It's in good hands, as it is used for development for our open source community.

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1 year 10 months ago #316154 by fake_name

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Grotius wrote:
@Fakename
The links are broken indeed, the source has moved to :
codeberg.org/skynet/realtime_app/src/bra...dor/ethercat_twincat

It is part of a bigger project that used opencascade.

That lets me localize things a bit, but could you possibly be a bit more explicit about dependencies? The version of qt6 packaged on debian 12 (current linuxcnc) seems to be too new, and it will not build:

Code:

cnc@servobox:~/realtime_app/src/vendor/ethercat_twincat/build$ cmake ..
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 12.2.0
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Success
-- Found Threads: TRUE
-- Performing Test HAVE_STDATOMIC
-- Performing Test HAVE_STDATOMIC - Success
-- Found WrapAtomic: TRUE
-- Found OpenGL: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libOpenGL.so
-- Found WrapOpenGL: TRUE
-- Found XKB: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxkbcommon.so (found suitable version "1.5.0", minimum required is "0.5.0")
-- Found WrapVulkanHeaders: /usr/include
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/ethercat_twincat/build
cnc@servobox:~/realtime_app/src/vendor/ethercat_twincat/build$ make -j4
[  5%] Automatic MOC and UIC for target ethercat_twincat
[  5%] Built target ethercat_twincat_autogen
[ 20%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/main.cpp.o
[ 20%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/ethercat_twincat_autogen/mocs_compilation.cpp.o
[ 20%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/mainwindow.cpp.o
[ 25%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/ethercat_master/tool/Command.cpp.o
[ 30%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/ethercat_master/tool/CommandXml.cpp.o
[ 35%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/ethercat_master/tool/MasterDevice.cpp.o
[ 40%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/ethercat_master/tool/NumberListParser.cpp.o
[ 45%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/graphics_view.cpp.o
[ 50%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/form_node_port.cpp.o
[ 55%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/form_node_base.cpp.o
[ 60%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/form_node_port_out.cpp.o
[ 65%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/form_node_port_in.cpp.o
[ 70%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/graphics_node.cpp.o
[ 75%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/graphics_curve.cpp.o
[ 80%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomwidget.cpp.o
[ 85%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomtimerwidget.cpp.o
[ 90%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomscopewidget.cpp.o
[ 95%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ethercat_twincat.dir/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomplot.cpp.o
/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomplot.cpp: In member function ‘Qt::Alignment QCPLayoutInset::insetAlignment(int) const’:
/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomplot.cpp:3121:12: error: invalid conversion from ‘int’ to ‘Qt::AlignmentFlag’ [-fpermissive]
 3121 |     return 0;
      |            ^
      |            |
      |            int
In file included from /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/QtCore/qglobal.h:1401,
                 from /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/QtCore/qnamespace.h:8,
                 from /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/QtCore/qobjectdefs.h:12,
                 from /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/QtCore/qobject.h:10,
                 from /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/QtCore/QObject:1,
                 from /home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomplot.h:29,
                 from /home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomplot.cpp:26:
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/QtCore/qflags.h:74:45: note:   initializing argument 1 of ‘constexpr QFlags<T>::QFlags(Enum) [with Enum = Qt::AlignmentFlag]’
   74 |     constexpr inline Q_IMPLICIT QFlags(Enum flags) noexcept : i(Int(flags)) {}
      |                                        ~~~~~^~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/QtCore/qglobal.h:1407:
/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomplot.cpp: In destructor ‘virtual QCPItemAnchor::~QCPItemAnchor()’:
/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomplot.cpp:7461:47: error: ‘class QSet<QCPItemPosition*>’ has no member named ‘toList’
 7461 |   foreach (QCPItemPosition *child, mChildrenX.toList())
      |                                               ^~~~~~
/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomplot.cpp:7466:47: error: ‘class QSet<QCPItemPosition*>’ has no member named ‘toList’
 7466 |   foreach (QCPItemPosition *child, mChildrenY.toList())
      |                                               ^~~~~~
/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomplot.cpp: In destructor ‘virtual QCPItemPosition::~QCPItemPosition()’:
/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomplot.cpp:7639:47: error: ‘class QSet<QCPItemPosition*>’ has no member named ‘toList’
 7639 |   foreach (QCPItemPosition *child, mChildrenX.toList())
      |                                               ^~~~~~
/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomplot.cpp:7644:47: error: ‘class QSet<QCPItemPosition*>’ has no member named ‘toList’
 7644 |   foreach (QCPItemPosition *child, mChildrenY.toList())
      |                                               ^~~~~~
/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomplot.cpp: In member function ‘void QCustomPlot::replot(RefreshPriority)’:
/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomplot.cpp:10372:37: error: ‘HighQualityAntialiasing’ is not a member of ‘QPainter’
10372 |     painter.setRenderHint(QPainter::HighQualityAntialiasing); // to make Antialiasing look good if using the OpenGL graphicssystem
      |                                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomplot.cpp: In member function ‘virtual void QCustomPlot::wheelEvent(QWheelEvent*)’:
/home/cnc/realtime_app/src/vendor/nodelib/qcustomplot.cpp:10855:53: error: ‘class QWheelEvent’ has no member named ‘pos’
10855 |   if (QCPLayoutElement *el = layoutElementAt(event->pos()))
      |                                                     ^~~

 

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1 year 10 months ago #316155 by fake_name

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FWIW, I rolled back to qt5 and it builds.

I can get the binary in the referred directory (

Code:

ethercat_twincat

) to build and run, but it doesn't seem to correctly identify my hardware, and I don't really understand what to do next. It seems to identify my servo driver (a Lichuan LC10-E) as a EK1100.

Code:

ethercat pdos

seems to show the correct process data objects, so I'm not sure what's going on.

If there's anything I can do to help (you want shell access? I should be able to figure something out) I'd be happy do contribute.

I also have a number of Lichuan ethercat stepper servo drivers, and a ethercat IO thingie (one of these: www.forum.linuxcnc.org/ethercat/52997-et...at-catio-module-help ).

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1 year 10 months ago #316175 by Grotius

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Hi Fakename,

The executable "ethercat_twincat" start up with a default none name "EK1100".
See the mainwindow : node_ethercat = new graphics_node("EK1100",ports);

A better name should be something like : "Ethercat".

seems to show the correct process data objects, so I'm not sure what's going on.
This is nice. That means the digital xml config is parsed succesfully.

Maybe this is not the best way to start figuring out things for you.
Best for you is maybe a minimal example where ethercat is showing your pdo config in gui, without
the usage of node's etc.

Then set some test values, to try to run the motors?

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1 year 10 months ago #316434 by Rkatts

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endian wrote:
hi,

if you are building ethercat-master from source... there is possibility to disable eoe on master during ./configure script for example

Code:

./configure --sysconfdir=/etc/ --disable-8139too --enable-userlib --disable-generic --disable-eoe --enable-e1000e but I am fighting with them right now to install non generic driver because in responsitories is only generic possible ..

Sorry for the basic questions. Where do you enter that command? Do you put it in a file during the build process?
And while I'm at it, what method do you use to build from source? I'm new to this. I'm just trying to disable EoE.

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1 year 10 months ago #316506 by onceloved

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You can use the tool to export the drive sii file, then modify it to disable eoe and then flash it back

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1 year 10 months ago #316706 by endian

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Yes it is possible did it in the many ways... but only working way for me was that to switch off the EoE master directly on the master...

I did it during ethercat installation ... install everything like a rodw has in his thread and then turn off ethercat master service ... and finally reinstall just ethercat master with right driver what is directly supported my hardware to supress the latency and then disable feature --eoe ...

I can did a terminal command manual if somebody needs them

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1 year 9 months ago #318357 by Tntmold

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as a new linux user, can someone give tips on how to install/try this twincat utility?

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1 year 9 months ago #318386 by blazini36

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Now that's cool

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