Ethercat Slave to Slave

I would like to enable slave to slave communication between 2 Ethercat devices, but the data types of the source and the destination are mismatched. The source PDO is a 128 bit array and the destination PDO is an 8 bit array. I am new to Ethercat and I tried using the Expert Process Data tab on the source slave to create a new PDO that only reads 8 bits, but it caused that slave to fail. Is there any way to create some kind of Virtual PDO or otherwise enable slave to slave in this scenario?

Best reply by TheCodeCaptain

Hi a1mm

here it is just allowed to copy exact matching types.
As an alternative you can copy it in the PLC.

Regards

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