command an Ethercat device directly over OPC UA

Is it possible to use the ctrlX core as a kind of router for connecting and controlling a Ethercat device over UPC UA.ย 

What this means is that I have a third party Device with OPC UA server. I want to connect and control a Ethercat device. This can be any device, but lets say its a third party ethercat frequency converter. What I can Imagne is that with OPC UA I can write(&read) the datalayer. So I can write the drive enable and write a command Velocity. This should work or am I wrong ?ย 

This means I only need a ctrlX with Datalayer acces, UPC UA client app and the Ethercat App. There is no need for PLC app, Motion app or NodeRed or whatever while I write directly on the values. We want to test this, but it should be nice if some specialist can tell me if this is going to work.

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Best reply by CodeShepherd

You would need an OPCUA server app and I think at the moment the requested way is not working. Please have a look to this topic.

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