ecfacade::GenericDevice

Application handle for a device whose profile implements none of the typed capability contracts (not an Axis, [IoModule](/lxmaster/api/classes/IoModule), or Encoder) – e.g. More...

#include <generic_device.hpp>

Inherits from DeviceFacade

Detailed Description

class ecfacade::GenericDevice;

Application handle for a device whose profile implements none of the typed capability contracts (not an Axis, [IoModule](/lxmaster/api/classes/IoModule), or Encoder) – e.g.

an EtherCAT IMU or any other vendor device modelled by a custom [ecdev::IDeviceProfile](/lxmaster/api/classes/IDeviceProfile).

It adds nothing beyond [DeviceFacade]: the generic device is reached via EcNetwork::devices(), brought to OPERATIONAL with configure(), and its custom profile is obtained with deviceProfile() (then recovered to the concrete profile type with a profileName()-guarded static_cast, RTTI-free, once at setup – see deviceProfile()). A device that also exposes a typed capability still appears here in addition to its typed list, so devices() is the complete set of profile-carrying slaves.

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Updated on 2026-07-13 at 20:44:41 +0000