Modbus notes

This wiki article contains some notes and references on FreeModbus, an opensource C library to support a Modbus protocol stack in stand-alone applications as well as operating system and scheduler based systems. This article also contains a number of links to more general C language references, which discuss function pointers in C, and the type defining of function pointers.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modbus

• https://www.embedded-solutions.at/en/freemodbus/freemodbus-examples/

• https://libmodbus.org/ . . . Ubuntu package is 'libmodbus5' and 'libmodbus-dev'

- 2019-11-08 FRI -

When working with FreeModbus, be sure to pay attention to the versions of protocol available, and likely, we only want to enable one of these. See Modbus/include/mbconfig.h. See also Modbus/include/mb.h for instructions on how to initialize and begin to use an instance of FreeModbus stack in given program. Also mention that eMBPoll() routine may be set up as a task in an RTOS, to realize the periodic polling which is part of the stack's runtime manifestation . . .

Looks like also this function to register callbacks for end-user-device-specific Modbus registers will be important:

  eMBErrorCode eMBRegisterCB ( UCHAR ucFunctionCode,
    pxMBFunctionHandler pxHandler
  )

This function signature part of documentation found at https://www.embedded-solutions.at/en/freemodbus/api-documentation/, which gives Doxygen generated API help in an embedded pane in the browser window on which it is visited.

2019-11-12 Tuesday - trying to figure out how pxMBFunctionHandler is defined . . . from http://www.teamfdi.com/uez/docs/mbproto_8h.html:

 Typedefs
 typedef eMBException(* pxMBFunctionHandler )(UCHAR *pucFrame, USHORT *pusLength)

...from this typedef looks like Modbus routines implemented by the end user/end designer must have parameter lists which match "unsigned char pointer, unsigned integer pointer".

2019-11-13 Further search for FreeModbus callback registering code"

downloads/freemodbus/freemodbus-v1.5.0$ grep -nr pxMBFunctionHandler ./*
./modbus/mb.c:226:eMBRegisterCB( UCHAR ucFunctionCode, pxMBFunctionHandler pxHandler )
./modbus/include/mbproto.h:72:typedef         eMBException( *pxMBFunctionHandler ) ( UCHAR * pucFrame, USHORT * pusLength );
./modbus/include/mbproto.h:77:    pxMBFunctionHandler pxHandler;
./modbus/include/mb.h:266:                               pxMBFunctionHandler pxHandler )

And the entire section of typedefs from mbproto.h:

/* ----------------------- Type definitions ---------------------------------*/
    typedef enum
{
    MB_EX_NONE = 0x00,
    MB_EX_ILLEGAL_FUNCTION = 0x01,
    MB_EX_ILLEGAL_DATA_ADDRESS = 0x02,
    MB_EX_ILLEGAL_DATA_VALUE = 0x03,
    MB_EX_SLAVE_DEVICE_FAILURE = 0x04,
    MB_EX_ACKNOWLEDGE = 0x05,
    MB_EX_SLAVE_BUSY = 0x06,
    MB_EX_MEMORY_PARITY_ERROR = 0x08,
    MB_EX_GATEWAY_PATH_FAILED = 0x0A,
    MB_EX_GATEWAY_TGT_FAILED = 0x0B
} eMBException;

typedef         eMBException( *pxMBFunctionHandler ) ( UCHAR * pucFrame, USHORT * pusLength );

typedef struct
{
    UCHAR           ucFunctionCode;
    pxMBFunctionHandler pxHandler;
} xMBFunctionHandler;

^ Obscurely defined FreeModbus variables

Where is the following demo/LPC214X/port/port.c variable defined? Does not appear defined in any file of FreeModbus 1.5.0 download. Note however that this may be an LPC microcontroller register name:

  VICIntEnable

See http://www.keil.com/dd/vtr/3880/9794.htm for a brief mention of this term. - TMH

^ Modbus frames and framing handling

./modbus/include/mbport.h:109:extern          BOOL( *pxMBFrameCBByteReceived ) ( void );
Binary file ./modbus/include/.mbport.h.swp matches
./modbus/mb.c:85:BOOL( *pxMBFrameCBByteReceived ) ( void );
./modbus/mb.c:153:            pxMBFrameCBByteReceived = xMBRTUReceiveFSM;
./modbus/mb.c:167:            pxMBFrameCBByteReceived = xMBASCIIReceiveFSM;
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^ C function pointers and further references

  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40239270/freemodbus-embregcoilscb-function-body-example

What do we need to pass to eMBRegisterCB()? . . .


  https://os.mbed.com/users/giryan/code/Modbus/docs/tip/group__modbus.html

C function pointer syntax:
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1591361/understanding-typedefs-for-function-pointers-in-c
  https://www.zentut.com/c-tutorial/c-function-pointer/

2019-11-14 Thursday:


  https://cs.nyu.edu/courses/spring12/CSCI-GA.3033-014/Assignment1/function_pointers.html






^ Modbus tools and resources

  https://github.com/ed-chemnitz/qmodbus/





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