Modbus openHAB2 binding available for alpha testing

ssalonen · January 15, 2018, 4:46pm

rxtx means that you are missing the serial transport feature… that’s why. So that was quite expected.

If you install jars manually, you need to also install the serial feature since it is an dependency of the modbus transport.

All this will be way more simple / transparent when/if the addon gets official, and there would be no need even for the marketplace.

alexopenhab · January 15, 2018, 8:21pm

@Nanna_Agesen

Reading the 64bit Value with uInt32 “works” in some cases:

if uInt32 reads the “lower” 32bit part of the 64bit value, and
if the 32bit value is lower/equal than 4294967296 (the other 32bit value is “0”)

If the kWh value is saved as “Wh” you first come in trouble with uInt32 Reading after 4294967.296 kWh.

Powering 120kW (3*100A @ 400V) constant to this PowerMeter all over the time, you will reach this value after about 4 years and costs you > 1Mill. € (at 0.30€/kWh) .

alexopenhab · January 15, 2018, 8:41pm

Carlo Gavazzi Energy Analyzer was also a choice for me, but i didn’t found a retailer with fast order.
My B+G E-Tech SDM630Modbus was available via Amazon.
It uses float32 for all values, quite simple …

Nevertheless the first Power Meter was broken, with 32A constant current on L2 and L3 even if all fuses were off…

Nanna_Agesen · January 16, 2018, 4:18am

Hi @ssalonen

Thanks for your explanation.

i’m I correct that in some of your first versions of the binding, I would receive an error if I tried to read an Uint64 word?

Nanna_Agesen · January 16, 2018, 4:20am

@alexopenhab

I’m a Carlo Gavazzi retailer so it was my first choice

ssalonen · January 16, 2018, 5:02am

I don’t think any error occurs. This is because at modbus protocol level there are no concepts such as int64 or even float32. There are just 16 bit registers (input and holding), 1 bit coils, and 1 bit discrete inputs.

Naturally you would get an configuration error if you try to use unknown valuetypes such “foobar” or “int64”.

So the binding can poll the data just fine. Constructing the number just needs some work as mentioned above. Arithmetic is following similar logic @alexopenhab explains above.

Best
Sami

aco · January 16, 2018, 9:20pm

Hi. I use a couple of power-meters all connected by modbus rtu (RS485). They are all conected to a modbus rtu to modbus-tcp converter (not wifi but LAN). This works like a charm
But i have not converted the modbus.cfg yet (I started with OH 1.6). Do you have already a thing-file with all the registers and would share this?

ArC · January 17, 2018, 9:08am

@aco, that would be specific to everyone’s devices. I doubt that there is anyone created a file holding ALL registers just for ‘fun’
As from my personal experience - if you define things file holding all registers and define a poll for that - there is a chance you’re end up in high memory/cpu usage of your server.
…unless you find anyone who has the same device.

Regards

aco · January 17, 2018, 7:15pm

Ofcours you right. I use the same devices as you

splatch · January 18, 2018, 5:49pm

Hi Andreas, can you disclose wiring details for your power meters? I have issue with that, maybe you will be able to help me? Or anyone involved in the topic.

I’m keen to test binding but so far my devices are disconnected…

aco · January 18, 2018, 7:20pm

Hi Lukasz. The wiring is standard rs485: 2wire_rs485_fig1
Where the Modbus RTU to TCP-Converter ist the master. The config of the converter ist the following:

(Please also add a resistor at the end of the bus (between A and B about 120ohm)

If there is more then one device on the bus make shure that your converter is supporting stacking for the rs485 bus.
In my case I have got a special-firmware from the manufactuer

Hope this help.

ddozza · January 21, 2018, 7:54am

I’m using a Pine64 with a USB RS485 adapter cp210x. I’m using OpenJDK 1.8 on a OpenSUSE.
I’ve added openhab user in dialout group, configured serial port with permissions and extra Java directive (EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS=“-Dgnu.io.rxtx.SerialPorts=/dev/ttyUSB0”) as I did on a PC where everything runs correctly.

But modbus poll on Pine64 reports an error:

2018-01-20 17:16:36.727 [ERROR] [et.wimpi.modbus.net.SerialConnection] - Could not get port identifier, maybe insufficient permissions. gnu.io.NoSuchPortException: null
2018-01-20 17:16:36.728 [ERROR] [ing.ModbusSlaveConnectionFactoryImpl] - connect try 1/1 error: Could not get port identifier, maybe insufficient permissions. null. Connection SerialConnection@32d4d03b[portName=/dev/ttyUSB0,port=]. Endpoint ModbusSerialSlaveEndpoint@5dc73368[portName=/dev/ttyUSB0]
2018-01-20 17:16:36.730 [ERROR] [ing.ModbusSlaveConnectionFactoryImpl] - re-connect reached max tries 1, throwing last error: Could not get port identifier, maybe insufficient permissions. null. Connection SerialConnection@32d4d03b[portName=/dev/ttyUSB0,port=]. Endpoint ModbusSerialSlaveEndpoint@5dc73368[portName=/dev/ttyUSB0]
2018-01-20 17:16:36.731 [ERROR] [ing.ModbusSlaveConnectionFactoryImpl] - Error connecting connection SerialConnection@32d4d03b[portName=/dev/ttyUSB0,port=] for endpoint ModbusSerialSlaveEndpoint@5dc73368[portName=/dev/ttyUSB0]: Could not get port identifier, maybe insufficient permissions. null
2018-01-20 17:16:36.733 [WARN ] [rt.modbus.internal.ModbusManagerImpl] - Could not connect to endpoint ModbusSerialSlaveEndpoint@5dc73368[portName=/dev/ttyUSB0] – aborting request ModbusPollerThingHandlerImpl.ModbusPollerReadRequest@6aaf1014[slaveId=3,functionCode=READ_MULTIPLE_REGISTERS,start=0,length=20,maxTries=3] [operation ID 01273a42-3a58-4b0e-824e-e67fa2f5c2b5]

The error happens both with 2.2.0 and 2.3.0 OH versions.

Any idea?

Thanks, Davide

gitMiguel · January 21, 2018, 8:48am

Have you also added openhab user to tty group? Do you have any other software to test the port? One way test if it’s permission issue is to run openhab as root.

ddozza · January 21, 2018, 9:57am

Yes, by using mbpoll, I can read registers.

pine64@pine64:~> mbpoll -a 3 -b 19200 -t 4 -r 122 /dev/ttyUSB0
mbpoll 1.2-6 - FieldTalk™ Modbus(R) Master Simulator
Copyright (c) 2015 epsilonRT, All rights reserved.
This software is governed by the CeCILL license http://www.cecill.info

Protocol configuration: Modbus RTU
Slave configuration…: address = [3]
start reference = 122, count = 1
Communication…: /dev/ttyUSB0, 19200-8E1
t/o 1.00 s, poll rate 1000 ms
Data type…: 16-bit register, output (holding) register table

– Polling slave 3… Ctrl-C to stop)
[122]: 196
– Polling slave 3… Ctrl-C to stop)
[122]: 196
^C— /dev/ttyUSB0 poll statistics —
2 frames transmitted, 2 received, 0 errors, 0.0% frame loss

Coult it be a JVM problem?

Davide

ddozza · January 21, 2018, 10:32am

I get the same error also running OH as root.

Davide

gitMiguel · January 21, 2018, 11:23am

Are you running 32bit or 64bit java? Some google answers told that serial connections don’t work at all with 64bit. Another one said that there known problems with openhab and openJDK. Might be worth changing to zulu java. As a sidenote I’m running openhab on debian 8 with zulu java 32bit and serial connections works just fine.

ssalonen · January 21, 2018, 3:20pm

Have you checked the setup guide?

Specifically, the “serial port configuration” section in the docs, which links to Port configuration notes of serial binding.

Seems that dialout group is of relevance.

But since you get issues even as root user, I doubt those instructions help. Perhaps worth trying out steps from @gitMiguel?

sipvoip · January 25, 2018, 12:31am

Having some issues migrating to openHAB 2 binding. Part of my modbus 1x config is:

tcp.basement.connection=10.88.64.46:502:0:600000:0:0:50
tcp.basement.length=55
tcp.basement.type=coil

tcp.basement_ponet.connection=10.88.64.46:502:0:600000:0:0:50
tcp.basement_ponet.start=2072
tcp.basement_ponet.length=8
tcp.basement_ponet.type=coil

Is this the same config for modbus 2x?

Bridge modbus:tcp:basement [ host="10.88.64.46", port=502, id=3 ] {
  Bridge poller coils [ start=0, length=55, refresh=1000, type="coil" ] {
    Thing data pin01 [ readStart="0", readValueType="bit", writeStart="0", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin02 [ readStart="1", readValueType="bit", writeStart="1", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin03 [ readStart="2", readValueType="bit", writeStart="2", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin04 [ readStart="3", readValueType="bit", writeStart="3", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin05 [ readStart="4", readValueType="bit", writeStart="4", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin06 [ readStart="5", readValueType="bit", writeStart="5", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin07 [ readStart="6", readValueType="bit", writeStart="6", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin08 [ readStart="7", readValueType="bit", writeStart="7", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin09 [ readStart="8", readValueType="bit", writeStart="8", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin10 [ readStart="9", readValueType="bit", writeStart="9", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin11 [ readStart="10", readValueType="bit", writeStart="10", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin12 [ readStart="11", readValueType="bit", writeStart="11", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin13 [ readStart="12", readValueType="bit", writeStart="13", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin14 [ readStart="13", readValueType="bit", writeStart="14", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin15 [ readStart="14", readValueType="bit", writeStart="14", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin16 [ readStart="15", readValueType="bit", writeStart="15", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin17 [ readStart="16", readValueType="bit", writeStart="16", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin18 [ readStart="17", readValueType="bit", writeStart="17", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin19 [ readStart="18", readValueType="bit", writeStart="18", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin20 [ readStart="19", readValueType="bit", writeStart="19", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin21 [ readStart="20", readValueType="bit", writeStart="20", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin22 [ readStart="21", readValueType="bit", writeStart="21", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin23 [ readStart="22", readValueType="bit", writeStart="22", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin24 [ readStart="23", readValueType="bit", writeStart="23", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin25 [ readStart="24", readValueType="bit", writeStart="24", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
  }
  Bridge poller ponet [ start=2072, length=8, refresh=1000, type="coil" ] {
    Thing data pin01 [ readStart="2072", readValueType="bit", writeStart="2072", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin02 [ readStart="2073", readValueType="bit", writeStart="2073", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin03 [ readStart="2074", readValueType="bit", writeStart="2074", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin04 [ readStart="2075", readValueType="bit", writeStart="2075", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin05 [ readStart="2076", readValueType="bit", writeStart="2076", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin06 [ readStart="2077", readValueType="bit", writeStart="2077", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin07 [ readStart="2078", readValueType="bit", writeStart="2078", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    Thing data pin08 [ readStart="2079", readValueType="bit", writeStart="2079", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
  }
}

splatch · January 25, 2018, 1:23am

@ssalonen you made an excellent work relivering simple binding configuration for low level thing such modbus.

I made my attempt with binding today and I’ve spotted some behaviours which are unclear to me and maybe you will be able to clarify if its intended. I connect using modbus tcp - link itself is fine and I see proper answers coming back in wireshark.

My device have bunch of registrars which I explorer one by one to make sure that I parse values correctly. Some of registrars are repeated - as it is three phase power meeter. Values are encoded as float and they are read properly.

Below is my basic configuration

    Bridge poller L1voltage [start=8200, length=2, refresh=1000, maxTries=1, type="holding" ] {
        Thing data voltage [ readStart="8200", readValueType="float32" ]
    }
    Bridge poller L2voltage [start=8204, length=2, refresh=1000, type="holding" ] {
        Thing data voltage [ readStart="8204", readValueType="float32" ]
    }
    Bridge poller L3voltage [start=8208, length=2, refresh=1000, type="holding" ] {
        Thing data voltage [ readStart="8208", readValueType="float32" ]
    }

Values are not updated. On trace logging level I’ve got following messages:

Could not transform item state '235.1999969482422' (of type DecimalType) to a State (tried the following types: [class org.eclipse.smarthome.core.library.types.DateTimeType, class org.eclipse.smarthome.core.types.UnDefType])! Input state as string '235.1999969482422', transformed string '235.1999969482422', transformation 'default'
Thing modbus:data:pro380:L1voltage:voltage 'Modbus data', channel modbus:data:pro380:L1voltage:voltage:datetime will not be updated since transformation was unsuccesful
transformed response is '235.1999969482422'

I also attempted to group by reads together, but registers are not continuous thus below configuration doesn’t work:

     Bridge poller voltage [start=8200, length=10, refresh=1000, type="holding" ] {
         Thing data L1 [ readStart="8200", readValueType="float32" ]
         Thing data L2 [ readStart="8204", readValueType="float32" ]
         Thing data L3 [ readStart="8208", readValueType="float32" ]
     }

Cheers,
Lukasz

sipvoip · January 25, 2018, 1:57am

I am working on moving from 1.x binding, and I see something similar.

24-Jan-2018 20:53:39.581 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.modbus.internal.Transformation] - transformed response is '0'
24-Jan-2018 20:53:39.581 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.modbus.internal.Transformation] - Transformed item state '0' (of type DecimalType) to a state 0 (of type StringType). Input state as string '0', transformed string '0', transformation 'default'
24-Jan-2018 20:53:39.582 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.modbus.internal.Transformation] - transformed response is '0'
24-Jan-2018 20:53:39.582 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.modbus.internal.Transformation] - Transformed item state '0' (of type DecimalType) to a state 0 (of type PercentType). Input state as string '0', transformed string '0', transformation 'default'
24-Jan-2018 20:53:39.582 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.modbus.internal.Transformation] - transformed response is '0'
24-Jan-2018 20:53:39.582 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.modbus.internal.Transformation] - Transformed item state '0' (of type DecimalType) to a state 0 (of type DecimalType). Input state as string '0', transformed string '0', transformation 'default'
24-Jan-2018 20:53:39.582 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.modbus.internal.Transformation] - transformed response is '0'
24-Jan-2018 20:53:39.583 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.modbus.internal.Transformation] - Could not transform item state '0' (of type DecimalType) to a State (tried the following types: [class org.eclipse.smarthome.core.library.types.DateTimeType, class org.eclipse.smarthome.core.types.UnDefType])! Input state as string '0', transformed string '0', transformation 'default'
24-Jan-2018 20:53:39.583 [DEBUG] [nhab.binding.modbus.handler.ModbusDataThingHandler] - Thing modbus:data:second:ponet:05 'Modbus data', channel modbus:data:second:ponet:05:datetime will not be updated since transformation was unsuccesful