Enabling and disabling devices

[JHU1XI1]

Hello,

How to implement the enable and disable functions of devices on ECAT network in online status.

[CodeShepherd]

Could a bit describe, what you like to achieve?

If you like to have some kind of maximum project including several EtherCat slaves that should be deactivate while runtime, this is currently not possible.

The only possible function is to deactivate the device in ctrlX IO Engineering before loading the configuration to the EtherCat master. Then your whole topology acts like this device does not exist at all. Beware that also the EtherCat addresses  of the following devices will change.

[JHU1XI1]

Hello CodeShepherd,

If I have a device with a different configuration, 10 ECAT axes or remote IO, I need to enable or disable a certain axis (IO station) in the HMI settings, so that my program can be easily and quickly compatible with this model.

[Sgilk · Accepted solution]

@JHU1XI1 ,

There is currently no REST API or SDK functionality to modify ethercat configuration in a deployed project.

See this thread on utilizing a custom application to modify the ethercat.xml configuration. This isn't exactly valid anymore since the ctrlX configuration management system needs to be utilized. See this thread for a solution.