constants — Modbus Default Values

API Documentation

Constants For Modbus Server/Client

This is the single location for storing default values for the servers and clients.

class pymodbus.constants.Defaults

A collection of modbus default values

Port

The default modbus tcp server port (502)

Retries

The default number of times a client should retry the given request before failing (3)

RetryOnEmpty

A flag indicating if a transaction should be retried in the case that an empty response is received. This is useful for slow clients that may need more time to process a requst.

Timeout

The default amount of time a client should wait for a request to be processed (3 seconds)

Reconnects

The default number of times a client should attempt to reconnect before deciding the server is down (0)

TransactionId

The starting transaction identifier number (0)

ProtocolId

The modbus protocol id. Currently this is set to 0 in all but proprietary implementations.

UnitId

The modbus slave addrss. Currently this is set to 0x00 which means this request should be broadcast to all the slave devices (really means that all the devices should respons).

Baudrate

The speed at which the data is transmitted over the serial line. This defaults to 19200.

Parity

The type of checksum to use to verify data integrity. This can be on of the following:

- (E)ven - 1 0 1 0 | P(0)
- (O)dd  - 1 0 1 0 | P(1)
- (N)one - 1 0 1 0 | no parity

This defaults to (N)one.

Bytesize

The number of bits in a byte of serial data. This can be one of 5, 6, 7, or 8. This defaults to 8.

Stopbits

The number of bits sent after each character in a message to indicate the end of the byte. This defaults to 1.

ZeroMode

Indicates if the slave datastore should use indexing at 0 or 1. More about this can be read in section 4.4 of the modbus specification.

IgnoreMissingSlaves

In case a request is made to a missing slave, this defines if an error should be returned or simply ignored. This is useful for the case of a serial server emulater where a request to a non-existant slave on a bus will never respond. The client in this case will simply timeout.

class pymodbus.constants.ModbusStatus

These represent various status codes in the modbus protocol.

Waiting

This indicates that a modbus device is currently waiting for a given request to finish some running task.

Ready

This indicates that a modbus device is currently free to perform the next request task.

On

This indicates that the given modbus entity is on

Off

This indicates that the given modbus entity is off

SlaveOn

This indicates that the given modbus slave is running

SlaveOff

This indicates that the given modbus slave is not running

class pymodbus.constants.Endian

An enumeration representing the various byte endianess.

Auto

This indicates that the byte order is chosen by the current native environment.

Big

This indicates that the bytes are in little endian format

Little

This indicates that the bytes are in big endian format

Note

I am simply borrowing the format strings from the python struct module for my convenience.

class pymodbus.constants.ModbusPlusOperation

Represents the type of modbus plus request

GetStatistics

Operation requesting that the current modbus plus statistics be returned in the response.

ClearStatistics

Operation requesting that the current modbus plus statistics be cleared and not returned in the response.

class pymodbus.constants.DeviceInformation

Represents what type of device information to read

Basic

This is the basic (required) device information to be returned. This includes VendorName, ProductCode, and MajorMinorRevision code.

Regular

In addition to basic data objects, the device provides additional and optinoal identification and description data objects. All of the objects of this category are defined in the standard but their implementation is optional.

Extended

In addition to regular data objects, the device provides additional and optional identification and description private data about the physical device itself. All of these data are device dependent.

Specific

Request to return a single data object.

class pymodbus.constants.MoreData

Represents the more follows condition

Nothing

This indiates that no more objects are going to be returned.

KeepReading

This indicates that there are more objects to be returned.