pysoem-nt15 0.0.2

Description:

pysoemnt15 0.0.2

PySOEM is a Cython wrapper for the Simple Open EtherCAT Master Library (https://github.com/OpenEtherCATsociety/SOEM).

Introduction
PySOEM enables basic system testing of EtherCAT slave devices with Python.
Features

input process data read and output process data write
SDO read and write
EEPROM read and write
FoE read and write

Todo

EoE

Beware that real-time applications need some special considerations.


Requirements

Linux

Python 3
GCC (installed on your machine)
Python scripts that use PySOEM must be executed under administrator privileges



Windows

Python 3 / 64 Bit
Npcap [*] or WinPcap



[*]
Make sure you check “Install Npcap in WinPcap API-compatible Mode” during the install





Installation
python -m pip install pysoem
or
pip install pysoem
Consider using a virtualenv.


Usage
Although there are some pieces missing, the documentation is hosted on “Read the Docs” at: pysoem.readthedocs.io.
Please also have a look at the examples on GitHub.


Contribution
Any contributions are welcome and highly appreciated.
Let’s discuss any (major) API change, or large piles of new code first.
Using this pysoem chat room on gitter is one communication channel option.


Changes

v1.0.8

Version bump only to re-upload to PyPI with windows-wheel for Python 3.11



v1.0.7

Fix issues with timeouts at amend_mbx and set_watchdog.



v1.0.6

Introduces amend_mbx and set_watchdog, though this is rather experimental
New example firmware_update.py.



v1.0.5

Introduces the manual_state_change property



v1.0.4

Proper logging
Introduces mbx_receive



v1.0.3

Fix the FoE password issue



v1.0.2

Licence change to MIT licence
Introduces configurable timeouts for SDO read and SDO write
Improved API docs



v1.0.1

API change: remove the size parameter for foe_write
Introduces overlap map support



v1.0.0

No Cython required to install the package from the source distribution



v0.1.1

Introduces FoE



v0.1.0

Update of the underlying SOEM



v0.0.18

Fixes bug when Ibytes = 0 and Ibits > 0



v0.0.17

Exposes ec_DCtime (dc_time) for DC synchronization



v0.0.16

Improvement on SDO Aborts



v0.0.15

SDO info read



v0.0.14

Readme update only



v0.0.13

Initial publication