{"id":13350,"date":"2022-09-08T11:10:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T16:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyflexdoc.wpengine.com\/?p=13350"},"modified":"2022-09-08T12:26:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:26:14","slug":"gantner-q-bloxx-x-series-io-can-be-purchased-and-used-to-communicate-with-cyflex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/gantner-q-bloxx-x-series-io-can-be-purchased-and-used-to-communicate-with-cyflex\/","title":{"rendered":"Gantner Q.bloxx X-series IO can be purchased and used to communicate with CyFlex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting with cyflex.6.3.33 or cyflex.7.0.8B, Gantner Q.bloxx X-series IO can be purchased and used to communicate with CyFlex.\u00a0 eblox_srvr has been modified to allow UDP streaming with these devices, and our EtherCAT driver has been updated to support the Gantner Q.bloxx X-series modules which support EtherCAT communication.<\/p>\n<p>For using eblox_srvr, the Q.station XB is the most economical solution as a controller.\u00a0 For EtherCAT, a Q.bloxx XE BC Bus Coupler can be purchased and the IO can stream directly to CyFlex without the use of a more expensive Gantner controller.\u00a0 If a more sophisticated EtherCAT controller is desired, the Q.station XT EC can be purchased.<\/p>\n<p>For hardware-specific questions, contact SGS.<\/p>\n<p>The following IO modules were specifically verified to work using eblox_srvr using the Q.station XB and the Q.station XT:<\/p>\n<p>Q.bloxx XL A101<br \/>\nQ.bloxx XL A107<br \/>\nQ.bloxx XL A108<br \/>\nQ.bloxx XL A109<br \/>\nQ.bloxx XL A192<br \/>\nQ.bloxx XL D101<br \/>\nQ.bloxx XL D107<\/p>\n<p>The following modules were verified to work with ecat_srvr using the Q.station XT EC and the Q.bloxx XE BC bus coupler:<\/p>\n<p>Q.bloxx XE A101<br \/>\nQ.bloxx XE A107<br \/>\nQ.bloxx XE A109<\/p>\n<p>All Q.bloxx X-series IO modules will be supported using EtherCAT and eblox_srvr.\u00a0 For EtherCAT, you have the option of using ecat_mon to stream directly to variables or go through the attribute layer to mimic eblox_srvr and snapio_srvr functionality and configuration.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any issues getting these series modules to work with CyFlex, contact SGS for support by entering a Jira issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting with cyflex.6.3.33 or cyflex.7.0.8B, Gantner Q.bloxx X-series IO can be purchased and used to communicate with CyFlex.\u00a0 eblox_srvr has been modified to allow UDP streaming with these devices, and our EtherCAT driver has been updated to support the Gantner Q.bloxx X-series modules which support EtherCAT communication. For using eblox_srvr, the Q.station XB is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}