Is the Beckhoff PLC necessary?

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Realtime ethercat master for Raspberry pi

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Is the Beckhoff PLC necessary? #8

Closed littleggghost closed 5 years ago

littleggghost commented 5 years ago

I noticed that there has an Beckoff PLC in your video, and as I know it is used for generating the config file (XML) about network topology. Has the xml file been included in repository? Or I have to generate it myself.

thanhtam-h commented 5 years ago

That isn't PLC, it is just simply an IO slave device. It does nothing with xml generation, you absolutely don't need it for working. Read other post on my blog simplerobot.net

littleggghost commented 5 years ago

Then forgive my ignorance!