11-07-2014 03:57 AM
Hello Everyone,
I have a problem with the newest NI Industrial Communication for EtherCAT 14.0 module when working with Beckhoff EK1100 and EL6992.
I would like to use cRIO-9067 as EtherCAT Master and communicate with a different third-party EtherCAT Master through EtherCAT bridge - Beckhoff EL6992. LabVIEW part is connected to the primary side of the bridge using EK1100. The third-party master is connected to the secondary side of the bridge.
Both masters can detect the connected slave (EL6992) and see the available inputs and outputs.
On a LabVIEW side:
The third-party ECAT master has a special software which allows configuring the connected slave (EL6992, secondary side) to transmit 256 bytes and to receive 256 bytes.
On the LabVIEW side, I use the “Raw Mode” to read and to write data to the bridge (EL6992, primary side).
Here is the problem description. I was able to communicate with this third-party ECAT master using NI-9068. When I had switched to NI-9067 and upgraded the software/drivers to the latest version, the communication stopped working.
The problem, I think, lies somewhere here:
In the past, when running this code on NI-9068, the code was returning the right values: 258 and 258 (I have no clue why it is equal to 256 + 2. I just ignored these two bytes).
Now, the code runs on NI-9067 and returns 2 and 2 bytes.
Unfortunately, I don’t have an access to NI-9068 anymore and can’t reproduce this situation.
I would really appreciate any help or advice.
11-11-2014 09:37 AM
Hi Nikita,
Please contact National Instruments about this issue. Contact your local applications engineer so we can take a look at this further, as they can devote resources towards this issue. We may be able to provide a loaner 9068 device so that you may reproduce the issue. Providing wiresharks of both devices (9068 and 9067) will help us determine the issue at hand.
Thanks!