About This document is a tutorial for writing Modbus/TCP Master applications utilizing the jamod library. It explains the basics and walk's you through a simple command line Master implementation, that will allow you to read the state of one or more input registers from a slave on the network. If you are new to Modbus, it is highly recommended to first take a look at (especially the section about the Serial implementation) as well as the actual protocol specifications (see ). The application build in the tutorial is actually part of the distribution codebase (). What is a Master? In terms of the Client-Server network computing paradigm, the Master application is a strongclient /strong. It establishes a connection with the slave (i.e.

The server) and uses this connection for sending a Request to the slave, from which a Response will be received. As described in, each cycle of Request and Response is called a Transaction. Figure 1 shows a simple graphical representation of such a cycle: The master can pull or poll (repeatedly) data from a source (data acquisition), as well as control a device. In the latter case it is often recommended to understand the mode of operation of the slave device. Industrial remote I/O's for example might have a mechanism (i.e.

A watchdog) to ensure predictable behavior when the communication with the master is lost. Thus ensure to study the documentation of the particular device you are working with. The simple network setup for this tutorial is composed of two nodes, as depicted in Figure 2. What is a Discrete Input? According to the Modbus data model, which is part of the protocol specification (see section 4.3) a Discrete Input is a single bit (i.e. 0 or 1, false or true), read-only 'data item', which is usually provided by an I/O system.

Figure 3 shows an example with simple switches that are mapped into the slave's process image in form of discrete inputs. The example master application will be capable of obtaining the state of these DI's from the slave.

Note Related information is available from. Classes of Interest for the Developer The motivation for creating jamod was to achieve an intuitive and object oriented implementation of the protocol, in a way, that there is a natural mapping from the domain knowledge (i.e. Modbus protocol) to the abstract class model. The important elements in the description above ( What is a Master?) have been highlighted and the following list represents the mapping between them and the classes from jamod that will be needed for a master implementation: • Connection: • Transaction: • Request: (respectively it's direct known subclass ) • Response: (respectively it's direct known subclass ). Implementation As the idea is to provide a tutorial in form of a very simple command line example, it will consist of only one class and most of the work will be done in the entry method ( public static void main(String args[])). This is probably not the way jamod will be usually employed in OO designs, but we hope it serves the demonstrative purpose.

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Before we start with coding, let's take a look at the simplified interaction diagram of the application, given as Figure 4. The part most interesting for this tutorial is colored blue, but note that the diagram also contains a little bit of the things that happen behind the scenes (i.e. Within the Transport, with writeRequest() and readRequest()), which are there to give a more complete picture. Now let's start writing code.

We need a simple Java application skeleton, with imports of all jamod packages. Fangorn:~/development/java/jamod wimpi$ java -Dnet.wimpi.modbus.debug=true -cp build/classes net.wimpi.modbus.cmd.DITest localhost:5555 0 4 3 Connected to localhost/127.0.0.1:5555 Request: 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 02 00 00 00 04 Response: 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 02 01 50 Digital Inputs Status=00001010 Response: 00 01 00 00 00 04 00 02 01 50 Digital Inputs Status=00001010 Response: 00 02 00 00 00 04 00 02 01 50 Digital Inputs Status=00001010 Note The debug outputs of the library can be activated by passing the property net.wimpi.modbus.debug to the JVM (i.e. Java -Dnet.wimpi.modbus.debug=true) and allow to see the actually exchanged modbus messages encoded as hex.