Hi,

thanks for the suggestion, my master is indeed running
periodically/triggered by a clock periodically.
I got it working meanwhile:
the time between calling the soem_master startHook
and the scheduler calling the soem_master updateHook should be short
enough to keep the communication going.

Nick

On 10/28/2015 03:23 PM, Ruben Smits wrote:
> Is your master running periodically? AFAIR (but could be wrong here)
> the receive only works after an initial send.
>
> R.
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 3:08 PM Dominick Vanthienen
> <dominick [dot] vanthienen [..] ...
> <mailto:dominick [dot] vanthienen [..] ...>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to synchronize a soem master component with other
> components,
> using master-slave activities:
> the scheduler component (master activity) triggers (amongst
> others) the
> soem master component (slave activity).
> However this seems not to work: no data is received.
> When running the soem master periodically, the data is there.
> Did anyone try something similar?
> Suggestions?
> I can not make the soem master component the master activity in my
> application.
>
> Thanks for your advice!
>
> Nick
>
> PS:
> There is no documentation included on the git repo:
> https://github.com/orocos/rtt_soem
> The ros wiki points to:
> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/soem
> which is a dead link :(
>
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