Slave online mode
When Online mode is active, an additional ”Online” tab will appear also on each slave.
- ESC register access: opens a dialog to read/write values of one or more ESC registers, given its well-known name or freely by index
- EEPROM access: opens a dialog to read/write values of EEPROM registers, given its well-known name or freely by index; this is particularly useful to set the ”Station alias” if you are using ”HotConnect groups”
- COE SDO access: opens a dialog to read/write values of one or more CoE objects, by browsing the object dictionary of the slave
- Diagnostics: opens a dialog that shows diagnostic informations of the slave, internal error codes and physical ports status
- FoE transfer: if the slave supports FoE (”File over EtherCAT”), opens a dialog to execute file upload to the slave; this is can be used for firmware upgrade, parameters upload, etc.
- Req. state: changes the requested running state of the slave; this could be different from the actual state of the master
- Actual state: show the actual running state of the slave
- PDO entries list: shows a resume of all the PDO entries, with their current value; double- click on the ”Value” column to manually change the value (just once), or enable the ”Forced” column if you want to apply the new value permanently. Works for both input and output PDOs