- Open ctrlX CORE user interface in browser.
- Add EtherCAT master by clicking [+] in EtherCAT > Configuration.
- Name it and press ok.
- Launch the local installed ctrlX I/O Engineering by clicking [ctrlX I/O Engineering]
- Open a new project with an ctrlX CORE device and add the ESI files of the Turck devices to the device repository.
- Select the ctrlX CORE device and click right mouse button. Choose [Add Device]
- Add the EtherCAT Master.
- Go online and download and activate the field bus configuration.
- Select the EtherCAT Mater and click right mouse button. Choose [Scan for Devices]
- See the list with the connected devices found at the controller.
- Select the wanted devices and add them to the project.
- The devices are added with the default settings from the ESI file.
- To change the configuration, select a module and click right mouse button.
Choose [Update Device] or at an empty slot choose [Plug device]
Select the wanted module. - At some modules you can adjust startup parameters.
- At the device you get access to the object dictionary.
- You can monitor and control the operational state.
- At the ctrlX CORE user interface you can also monitor and control the EtherCAT
operational state.
- The devices supports EOE. You can configure the IP settings.
- If you want to use EOE, then you have to configure it at the EtherCAT master too.
- At the ctrlX CORE user Interface > Settings > Connectivity you find the ETH settings and you can adjust the routing settings for EOE matching to your environment.
- Since Device Admin 1.12.0, you have to enable IP forwarding on the engineering interface to forward standard Ethernet traffic to the eoe interface.
- If EOE is operational then you can access the TBEC device Webpage.
(Current only supported by TBEC-IOL device) - At ctrlX Core user interface > Automation, you can see that EtherCAT is ready configured but we still miss a PLC application.
- At ctrlX Core user interface > PLC launch the local installed ctrlX PLC Engineering by clicking [ctrlX PLC Engineering]
- Open a new project with an ctrlX CORE device and select Realtime_Data.
- Enter configure real-time data and select ethercat_master_instances_ethercatmaster
- Then you can select the devices. You can select all and add all available data or browse thru the devices and select only a few data points. In the sample we select all data.
- At the ctrlX CORE PLC settings it is important to set > alway update variables to Enabled 2.
- Go online, download the application, start it and you have access to the data.
- At the ctrlX CORE user interface you can also monitor and control the application state.
- At ctrlX Core user interface > Automation, you can see now that we have completed the configuration.
