Great article, are you familiar enough with NModbus (or the modbus protocol in general) to know if it has the ability to be event-driven. That is, to not have to user a timer or manually poll for data from a client PLC? I know an OPC Server is the ideal solution, but for only a couple PLCs, it’s too expensive. Finally, I know that the NModbus site was hacked and the documentation was lost. However, the author said the documentation could be recovered if rebuilt from the Nant task in the source code.
Perhaps you could re-host the documentation, or that could be another article! I know a LOT of developers are looking for it. Cheers and keep up the good work. Hi Derek, there are no problem in hosting the documentation of nmodbus, but it just consists in 8 examples that can be found inside the source code (“MySample” folder). About the event-driven communication, it’s just a layer above the syncronous communication. To develop an asyncronous communication you need to have a thread dedicated to polling the modbus device.
This thread listen to external calls from the application and executes reads and writes to the plc. When data are ready it fires a “DataReadyEvent(EventArg data)” to all subscribers. The problem of this architecture is that it requires a lot of code that add no value to the application itself, because once you can write a multithreaded application, you can just extract your data from the communication thread, saving yourself from the pain of event-handling, subscription and memory leaks. There is an example of hmi in my that shows a basic structure of multithreaded app. Hi, I’d like to rephrase Dereks question above regarding event-driven. I stumbled upon S7.net (originally hosted at: which is dedicated for Siemens PLC and is now continued at: I belive this library uses modbus (but not sure). However it also lacks the event driven communication.
I understand that you can create a thread that polls the PLC and generates the event when it detects that data is changed. However the optimal solution would be that the PLC (or modbus device) sends the data itself upon change. Does such mechanism exist for the modbus protocol? If your PLC (or another modbus device ) is a master, so your PC application will be a slave.
In this case the PLC(master) can share is information when ready to do it, and the PC(slave) only have to receive it. The NModbus supports this “kind of feature”, it can be configured as Slave or Master (ASCII, TRU and TCP/IP). I think you must read something about the Modbus Protocol first. The Modbus protocol is very simple to understand, so you don’t need so much time to do it. After that you will use the NModbus library mutch better. (sorry for my bad english ? ) Best regards. Hi, Thanks for your answer.
I Read about the protocol for about 5 minutes now ? So from what I understand you have a master and a slave configuration. The master sends out requests which the slave node(s) reply to. Typically a polling scenario. In order to get data upon events I have to set up the PLC as a master which writes to the PC as a slave.
This would require some kind of extra logic (PLC program) set up in the PLC which I want to supervise. With TCP-modbus it is possible to setup the PC and PLC as both master and slave (on different connections). Not the general simple solution I was looking for so I think if I want an event driven communication it’s better to go with some OPC-solution which has already solved what I’m looking for. Do you know how this is solved under the hood of the OPC-server? Is the OPC server polling the device?
Hi Eric, probably you are confusing the two libraries, but S7.Net use S7 protocol, nModbus use Modbus protocol (that depending on the physical cable can be Modbus TCP (ethernet) or Modbus RTU (RS 422 – RS 485). S7.Net use Profinet (or Industrial Ethernet, don’t remember that good) and it’s derived from LibNoDave that can communicate both with Profinet and MPI. To use nModbus you need to add the Modbus libraries to the plc program.
About Master and Slave, think like internet: a website is the Master and your pc that browse the site is the Slave. The master choose who and when a slave can talk, but it’s up to the slave to choose what he needs from the master, so you need no extra-coding on the plc part if you just need to read/write values on a DB. Both MPI, Profibus and Profinet are multi-master protocols, this means that when a master did what he needs, he pass the token to the other master, and so on. Modbus RTU is not multi-master, Modbus TCP is multi-master. About S7.Net, you can check a working hardware configuration sample in this thread: this has been tested. About the event-driven architecture: or you implement your own in your polling thread, or you use it as is with an OPC Server. Hello again, I’m greatful that you are answering my newbie questions.
The background for the question is that I found the S7.net library. Tried it and worked well. Since there are no real support for this library I wanted to find more information regarding how it worked under the hood (which protocol was used and so on). I found this discussion: Which to me indicated that the library used modbus TCP for communication. I kind of doubt that it is derived from LibNoDave after reading this discussion: And by looking at the source it seems like it’s really implemented in C# all the way down to the byte communication.
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But it may very well use another protocol than modbus and I’m quite eager to find out which protocol. We did not set up anything (if I remeber correctly) on the PLC side to be able to access it using S7.net. Yes you can use C# and NModbus to control your drive, if the serial port is a RS232. If it is a RS422 or 485 you need extra-hardware. To communicate with Modbus through the serial port you need the Modbus RTU protocol, already included inside NModbus. You just have to know what register you need to read/write, and write the values that you need. Probably you need to do this independently if you use a PLC or a PC.
However It is reccomended to use real-time OS to control motors, and Windows is not such OS. Hi Mesta, Thanks so much for your information. I am new to Modbus, and have been read myself like one week about it. I am working one one project which needs to realise the Modbus RTU master function in C#, in order to read the data value from the slaves. I found that your library is the best, but.my problem is that: Can you explain to me the structure of your library? In fact I do not know which parts are the library excatly. It has so 6 projects when I open it in Visual C# 2010 some other I can not even open Thanks a lot.
Hope you understand what I mean! Hi mesta, Sorry for bothering you again. I would like to ask that, I want to make one software application which will read and display the Modbus RTU communication register values.
How can I do it? Should I create a IModbusSerialMaster first, then send message to slave? I want to display all the regoister values when I connect my software and PLC. Which is the function to read from RTU slave?
Thanks a lot. Please even give me a general hint is also very appreciated. As I am new to this field, but need to get the work done still.Thanks! Hi mesta, thanks for answering.
But they are too much for me I do not understand what do you mean. Can you explain little bit in detail? In fact what I want is: user enter slave ID, comport number, and baudrate then I have one button which will connect to the corresponding port automatically. Then the value of the registers should be displayed in datagrdiviewI get got stuck in this connect button.You gave is a very good library, but I do not know where should I start to do. Hope you understand, Also you know any Modbus RTU slave simulator? Hello everybody, i have just download the NModBus library to read some Holding Registers of a device, in my c# 2010 express solution explorer added the reference to the modbus.dll from binary/net of the extracted folder, added all namespaces from modbus ie using modbus.data, using modbus.io and so on. Then also added ftdAdapter.dll and wrote a small code to read holding registers using modbus RTU as explained by mesta at this page.
But my project is not able to build. It says namespace name ‘Modbus’ could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference? U guys are way ahead this issue, please drop me a line of advice. Got out of obstacle but stuck at the next. Well, I have a Modbus tester from namely “Modbus tester ”, this is something I have used for years.
I have made some usual settings inside this software (protocol = Modbus RTU, pairity = even as per my device and so on). Starting address address = 3901, no of registers = 2, type of reg = holding and so on. This Modbus tester software reads my device correctly and also sets the display correctly in binary / hex / float etc. This is perfect.
But when I run the same settings using same converter same device with Modbus RTU holding register read (start address = ushort 3901 and no of reg = ushort 2, device address = 1), my c# code throws an exception saying “Function code 131, exception code 2, the data address received in query is not an allowable address ”. For the time being this is beyond me, how come NModbus driver is interpreting the same working address as wrong? Anybody has any clue?
Please drop me a line. Mesta u r very correct. Memory I was reading were meant to be read as a block but I was trying to read only 4 locations from top out of 20, which was giving me a CRC error. Next, a location named 3901 in the manual = address 3900 in the c# code. I was able to fix the problem by looking at the response in the serial port monitor software. Then I hooked my Oscilloscope in Rtx of com port, that too was helpful. Now NModBus C# API is ROCKING in my shop floor, thanks a lot for ur expert advice.
Hi Mesta i have had started long time ago from here now i have written my own modbus implementation for S7 300 / 400 / 1200 and also have written a small library using tcp ip fetch and write service to talk to above mentioned PLCs and they all work as expected. There is one thing i am still strugling with and that is drawing line circles and rectangles on the winform. While developing a SCADA one has to show pipelines and stuff, is there any windows OS paint like program using which i could draw those static graphics on winform? I have been working with this library for almost a year and have a problem that I can’t solve. In searching through the NModbus discussion groups, it looks like other people have this problem as well and it hasn’t been resolved, (see and ). The problem is related to shutting down the TCP ports when the ModbusTcpSlave is disposed.
If I dispose of the slave, the ports are still active. If I iterate through the Masters collection and manually close the clients, then an exception is thrown (either IO Exception or Object Disposed Exception) that I haven’t been able to catch, so the software simply crashes. This seems like a bug within the class library since the software is still trying to communicate on the port after the clients have been closed and the ModbusTcpSlave has been disposed. The only way I’ve found to close these ports is to kill the software altogether and start over. Is there a recommended way to close the client ports?
This is a real problem that may require my client to walk away from the software altogether. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks for your quick reply; however, properly closing the ports is not the problem. The problem is that as soon as they are closed, an ObjectDisposedException is thrown from NModbus. In reviewing the NModbus source code, this is what I think the problem is: in class ModbusTcpSlave, in the method AcceptCompleted, a new master is created when a client connects and a corresponding event handler is added for masterConnection.ModbusMasterTcpConnectionClosed.
The method linked to this event handler is supposed to remove the master and close the socket, but it is not being called. So, if I call the Dispose method on ModbusTcpSlave, the slave is shutdown, but the master ports remain open. Free download mission impossible 4. I verified this using NETSTAT from a command line. If I manually close the masters, they are closed, but the event handler created when the connection was first made is still active and polling, so the software immediately throws the exception and kills my software. This is a NModbus problem because only NModbus can unsuscribe from the event handler. I have no way to control this event handler from my code.
I have tried to catch this exception, but haven’t been successful. This is a problem in my software because if the ModbusTcpSlave needs to be shut down and restarted (e.g., in the case of a communication failure), then when it is restarted and the master reconnects, then the original ports remain open.
Eventually, those open (but now dead) ports are causing the software to crash. I think a simple solution would be to unsubscribe from the masterConnection.ModbusMasterTcpConnectionClosed event in the ModbusTcpSlave.Dispose method. However, I would really like your opinion on this matter, especially if there is a way to properly dispose of the slave and master connections. I use DAQFactory Monitor: Tx (10:02:57.706): 062 003 000 002 000 020 225 010 Rx (10:02:57.710): 062 003 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 020 230 003 082 000 010 003 082 005 070 007 058 009 046 011 034 013 022 015 010 016 254 018 242 020 230 028 038 036 012 043 166 051 179 221 053 When i use nModbus4: Modbus.IO.ModbusSerialTransport Write – TX: 62,3,0,3,2,0,20,255,10 Modbus.IO.ModbusSerialTransport ReadResponse – RX:62,3,0,0,0 – and that’s all. I am get only 5 registers.
When i go to “Modbus.cs” and change “public const int MinimumFrameSize = more than 6;” i get new message “Message frame must contain at least (6) bytes of data”. Where is the problem? I can’t understand how with that function you obtain those values. I used your code and I got the expected message. The request frame is “Node” / “Address” / Start Address #1 / Start address #2 / N° of registers #1 / N° of registers #2 / And you have not six, but seven bytes. Also you are getting function code 3, that it’s “Read holding registers” but you actually wrote ReadInputRegisters.
And infact in the first post you obtained a 62,4,0, that it’s the correct number of the function. Now if you are trying to read holding registers with the function that read inputs, you obviously can’t. What you have to do is to go step by step in the sources and understand what’s going on when you create the frame.
Also if you modified the sources, or you have a suspect that they can be modified, I suggest you to go back to the original version. If you need some modbus documentation, you can go here. I experienced a similar issue today like in the above comment: “I am getting IOException Checksum Failed to match 62,4,0!= 62,4,0,0,2” I receive a “valid modbus response” with slave-adress, functional-code, correct number of following registers, the registers contain the values I expect and the crc-checksum is correct. (Even calculated it on my own with the Utlity provided by NModbus4) But.somewhere inside the library.
(i assume “ModbusMessageImpl”-class), a few bytes of the response get dropped / get lost. And therefore, such exceptions arise. After some hours I was not able to locate the cause for this. In my opinion, the response is valid, but NModbus4-lib is doing something wrong!
Sadly, noone is reacting to such issues, see for example here: (This question is from someone else, not me). Hi, I made a Windows Form to communicate via nmodbus with a slave.
(ASCII Mode). Reading works fine and I can store the Registervalues in an Array and print them in Labels. Now I want to write a Register.
And the slave will send a respond message (Ok or failed). With the terminal programm of the sample it works well. (I think ReadRequestResponse in ModbusAsciiTransport is writing it to a byte called frame).
I want to use the responded message from the slave in a Label. Googly kannada full movie mp3 songs download. So I can see in Form1 if I the slave accepted the changes or not. How can I implement this? Thanks for the Support here. Thank you Mesta, I know that the normal Response is the same query that the master wrote. But if the writing fails it responds with another message. So it would be nice to read the message.
But I if it is not usual to read the Response I don´t need to read it. My Problem is that after sending the write request I want to close the port again. But the program throws me because the Serialport is busy. I thought the best would be to read the responding message and then close the port. But it would be possible just to wait some time till it is not busy anymore and then close it. (Maybe with a timer) What is the best way to deal with this problem?
I think everybody who works with Modbus has to solve this So there should be a common way to do it. Thank you so much for responding so fast and for all the help. Hello Mesta, I have read forums entries here from 3 years ago.and i dont seem to find a solution for my problem. ANd so im entering into the loop. I am into automation project right now.
Need to control a despatche oven machine. Its controller based system that applies a MOdbus protocol. Last week I downloaded the Nmodbus project.
I had it working (perfectly) but only with PLC modbus simulator as my slave. My boss was glad to hear that i have control now with the machine.But, it wasnt the case when i connected with the real machine. I set and followed all the configuration settings if the serial port.
But when the code run into these line var values = master.ReadHoldingRegisters(slaveId, startAddress, 1); textBox3.Text = values0.ToString;.the program got in to “stalled” status. I had to close it down on the task manager. Additional info: There is a third party software running in the master pc that seems to have no problem using the modbus.
It can actuaLLY read out data from the machine. And I think to rule out some probelem in the machine itself. Hope to hear from youand to anybody who reads this ? Thanks, Joseph. Man you’re fast!
I was expecting ur reply tomorrow. I was only given until tomorrow to figure out the Modbus communication.so i must be able to connect it.
The controller is a Protocol3. It supports Modbus RTU. Currently there is software running at configuration 9600,None,8 bits, 1 of the serial port. There is no problem at all, only the software is limited in functions.
So we have to design a system that can automate the machine based on the company’s data architecture. Meaning it has to be connected with our manufacturing system where we can automate and control. Because right now we have to depend on the operator (human) which has been proven to be a source of lots of problems in the production floorAnd i just couldn’t even connect. ? The machine has no HMI, but it has a small LCD display with a small panel to make the settings. The third party software serves as the HMI.
Let u know tomorrow. Thanks for your quick reply I am able to read the register value using “Modbus slave” software. But I couldn’t get those values in my program. Getting Checksum error. I used the same slave address, baud rate, data bits and parity.
Please tell me which function I have to call for the following scenario. My PLC is master and my PC is slave. Conected using RS485 to USB.
But, StartModbusAsciiSlave; function isn’t defined. Whether I have to call StartModbusSerialAsciiSlave or StartModbusAsciiSlave Please share if any tutorial for modbus ASCII mode. My Application connected successfully with Telnet Server using TCPClient. But while ReadingHoldingRegister from Telnet server I am getting following Error’s in different scenario. An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host 2.
The requested address is not valid in its context 3. Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
The operation is not allowed on non-connected sockets. Note: Telnet Server is a device not a server i.e We can’t run TCP listener R Muruganandhan.
The Siemens Open Library was developed by over several years. Through a joint collaboration with Siemens Industry, DMC documented the library and released it as an Open Source Library open for anyone to use and distribute. The Library is Open Source and will allow for users to contribute content to help enhance the overall availability of functionality to the greater Siemens User Community. This library is targeted at S7-1200 and S7-1500 applications using a Siemens Comfort Panel or WinCC Advanced RT. Special changes have been made to accommodate S7-300 and S7-400 processors. The Version of Portal used for initial development was V13 SP1, however, additional updates will continue to be made.
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I guess you are looking for a Protocol convertor from PROFIBUS-DP to MODBUS or from PPI to MODBUS. Unfortunately this requires an extra piece of equipment, another card, and it is not easy to find it. I know Telvent is working on a Protocol convertor from MODBUS to PROFIBUS but they convert in the PROFIBUS master, not in the slave, anyway it will be easier in the slave. I have no idea about the other port of S7-200 PPI, but I think this will be even more difficult. Tell about final solution in the forum please. Hi, With the 'MicroWin add-on command library V1.1' you can directly communicate with the S7-200 on a Modbus RTU system. See ID 12330145 on WWW4.AD.SIEMENS.DE (search with search on that ID).
In ID 11859930 'S7-200 Micro-PLC Optional Software Packages' is the above Library for the S7-200 with the ordernumbers. The PPI port of the S7-200 = RS485 and may directly used for the Modbus communication. The new libraries installed with STEP 7-Micro/WIN32 Version 3.2 are supported on all 22x series CPUs, (CPU221, CPU222, CPU224, CPU226 and CPU226XM at present). The 21x series CPU's do not support the Add-On Instruction Library. Best Regards, Lowiek. You have clicked on the '?'
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