node-red-contrib-modbus

The all in one Modbus TCP and Serial contribution package for Node-RED.

Node-RED contribution package for Modbus

Based on modbus-serial with TCP, C701, Telnet, Serial, RTU buffered, and ASCII

• stress tested with Node-RED v0.19 and Node.js v9 and v10 LTS
• works with queueing per unit and round robin scheduling
• Node.JS 8.x is supported with v3.x
• Node.JS 6.x is supported with v2.x
• Node.JS 4.x is supported with v1.x

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Install

Run the following command in the root directory of your Node-RED install

npm install node-red-contrib-modbus

Run the following command for global install

npm install -g node-red-contrib-modbus

try these options on npm install to build, if you have problems to install

--unsafe-perm --build-from-source

modbus-serial, serialport and jsmodbus

The serialport optional dependency is just to list all ports on your system in the client configuration. It is not the serialport version to work with Modbus at runtime. For that check the modbus-serial or jsmodbus package.json, please! The modbus-serial supports and works for TCP connections in that package, too. The jsmodbus package is just to provide a simple Modbus Server node. All Modbus commands running on modbus-serial.

TCP or Serial testing

If you get in trouble with TCP connections, then check and test with just modbus-serial first, please!

If you get in trouble with Serial connections, then check with just serialport first, please!

Update/Upgrade/Downgrade

To update the dependencies or the whole package, you have just to install again.

npm show node-red-contrib-modbus@* version

To get a special version please set the version with @M.M.F:

npm install node-red-contrib-modbus@3.6.1

or global by

npm install -g node-red-contrib-modbus@3.6.1

How to use

• see Wiki pages
• use the Flow example to see how it works ...
• see YouTube Playlist

Debug

Debug will be activated by starting Node-RED with debug mode:

DEBUG=contribModbus*,modbus-serial node-red -v

or

DEBUG=contribModbus:{option},contribModbus:{option},...

Options

• core
  • core:client
  • core:client:fsm
• io
  • io:core
• basics
• read
• write
• server
• response
• flex
  • flex:getter
  • flex:write
  • flex:connector
  • flex:server
• modbus-serial

see Wiki pages to get more options in detail

Contributing

Let's work together! Please read and in best case accept CONTRIBUTING by your sign and send it via E-Mail. You could also send just a pull request or issues while testing, please!

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Authors

since April 2016 by Klaus Landsdorf

History

• contribution in 2016 by iurly
• license changed in 2016 by Jason D. Harper
• started in early 2015 by Mika Karaila