Hi,
I’m using the LX60 gateway in order to monitor and control devices through its RS485 serial interface using Modbus RTU protocol. Right now, I 've just written a simple LUA application to test the Modbus functionnalities.
I’ve connected the gateway with a Modbus RTU slave device which manages relay output. I’m able to send Modbus requests in order to activate the relay output, so my Modbus configuration and test code seem to be OK. When I check the RS485 electrical signals everything is OK and if look on the device response I can see this one is a recopy of the request. This confirm that the request is correct and no error has been encountered on device side.
However, the response is badly interpreted or not seen by the AAF. After executing the following Modbus request, I’ve got an error:
– write to Coil register in order to activate the relay output
local write,error = sdevice:writeSingleCoil(sid,address,sdata)
print (‘Modbus write done’, write, error)
Result : write =‘nil’ , error=‘timeout’
So the device response has not been well received.
In the LX60 log file, I can catch the following message : warning ALEOS_APPS_AAF-APPS: <MODBUS> Failure while processing a request: timeout
Same behaviour occurs when trying to read a Mobus regsiter.
I would like to know how I can have more information about this issue and how to debug it. As the WriteSingleCoil is an API function, I’ve no visibilty on what happens inside it. May be I’ve just forget to initiatlize something in my test program or on the LX60 itself.
Can someone has any idea I could try, or any feedback using RS485 on Airlink gateways ?
Thanks
Best regards
Fred
Below is the test code used on LX60:
local devicetree = require ‘devicetree’
local system = require ‘system’
local sched = require “sched” – Lua scheduling and synchronization lib
local serial = require “serial” – Serial lib
local os = require “os” – Operating system lib
local modbus = require “modbus”
– Variable path to be used
local RESERVE_SER0 = “system.aleos.reserve.ser0”
– Check if the serial port has been reserved for our use
– if not, reserve it and reboot to gain control
function reserve_serial_port (asset)
local serial_available = assert (devicetree.get(RESERVE_SER0))
if serial_available ~= 1 then
print ("WARNING","serial port not available, reserving it now...")
local result = assert (devicetree.set(RESERVE_SER0, 1))
print ("WARNING","Serial port Reserved ok, rebooting now...")
system.reboot()
sched.wait(30) -- stop here until the reset occurs
end
print ("Serial Port has been reserved for our use.")
end
function open_modbus_port (asset)
local modbus_port = '/dev/ttymxc1'
local modbus_mode ='RTU'
local modbus_config =
{
baudRate = 19200,
flowControl = 'none',
numDataBits = 8,
parity = 'even',
numStopBits = 2,
timeout = 3
}
local modbusdev = assert (modbus.new(modbus_port, modbus_config, modbus_mode))
print ("Init done",modbusdev)
return modbusdev
end
– Write to the modbus port
function write_to_modbus_port (sdevice, sid, address, sdata)
local write,error = sdevice:writeSingleCoil(sid,address,sdata)
print (‘Modbus write done’, write, error)
end
– Read to the modbus port
function read_from_modbus_port (sdevice,sid,address,length)
local read_data,error = sdevice:readCoils(sid, address,length)
print (“Modbus read done”,read_data,error)
return read_data
end
function main ()
assert(devicetree.init())
assert(system.init())
sched.wait(1)
reserve_serial_port ()
sched.wait(1)
local modbusmaster = open_modbus_port()
sched.wait(1)
write_to_modbus_port (modbusmaster, 130,1, true)
sched.wait(3)
write_to_modbus_port (modbusmaster, 130,1, false)
sched.wait(1)
read_from_modbus_port (modbusmaster,130,1,1)
print ('Exiting...')
--serdev:close() -- close the serial instance
modbusmaster:close() -- close the serial instance
os.exit (0)
end
– Schedule the main function, and launch the scheduler main loop
sched.run(main)
sched.loop()