Configure KUNBUS EtherCAT slave to use BOOL

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sbackman
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Configure KUNBUS EtherCAT slave to use BOOL

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I want to configure the KUNBUS EfterCAT Slave for boolean input/output. I tried to update the device description file (xml) but no luck.
The device description file I use is "Gateway_Component_EtherCAT_R02.xml" that I downloaded from KUNBUS.
If anybody has an example device description file (xml) for BOOL then I hope that person can post it to the forum. I also try to find the EtherCATInfo.xsd file used to buile the device description file.

Thanks Stefan
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Mathias
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Re: Configure KUNBUS EtherCAT slave to use BOOL

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Hi Stefan,
unforunatelly it is not possible to change the ethercat slave information without changing the software on the module. The module supports only bytes, words and dwords currently.
So you have to use one byte for each bool value.
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Mathias
sbackman
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Re: Configure KUNBUS EtherCAT slave to use BOOL

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Is there any plan for a software update to support boolean?

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Re: Configure KUNBUS EtherCAT slave to use BOOL

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no, there is no such plan at the moment.
I will set it on the ToDo-list.
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