Emergency Object (EMCY)¶
Emergency messages are triggered by the occurrence of a device internal fatal error situation and are transmitted from the concerned application device to the other devices with high priority. This makes them suitable for interrupt type error alerts. An Emergency Telegram may be sent only once per ‘error event’, i.e. the emergency messages must not be repeated. As long as no new errors occur on a device no further emergency message must be sent. By means of CANopen Communication Profile defined emergency error codes, the error register and device specific additional information are specified in the device profiles.
Examples¶
To list the currently active emergencies for a particular node, one can use the
.active
attribute which is a list of canopen.emcy.EmcyError
objects:
active_codes = [emcy.code for emcy in node.emcy.active]
all_codes = [emcy.code for emcy in node.emcy.log]
The canopen.emcy.EmcyError
objects are actually exceptions so that they
can be easily raised if that’s what you want:
if node.emcy.active:
raise node.emcy.active[-1]