[SOLVED] Modbus 2.x Things not starting up

Add-ons Bindings
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Hi,

I’m trying to migrate my working Modbus 1.x Binding to 2.x.

I’m using a Wago SPS (via TCP/IP) and my configuration looks like this:

Bridge modbus:tcp:wago [ host="192.168.0.126", port=502 ] {

    Bridge poller wago_switch [ start=12288, length=64, refresh=200, type="discrete" ] {
      Thing data myLight [ readStart="12289", readValueType="bit", writeStart="12288", writeValueType="bit", writeType="coil" ]
    }

    Bridge poller wago_consumption [ start=12292, length=30, refresh=200, type="input" ] {
    }

    Bridge poller wago_windows [ start=12292, length=60, refresh=200, type="holding" ] {
    }
}

I’m starting the binding via addons.cfg (and can see the binding becoming active).

When ever I change the things or the items configuration I get successful refreshes

2019-02-03 17:08:59.950 [INFO ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Refreshing model 'modbusV2.items'

or

2019-02-03 17:03:02.281 [INFO ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Refreshing model 'modbus.things'

Karaf (full TRACE logging enabled according to the binding page) shows no active things when I do “smarthome:things list”

Same thing on Paper UI: Binding is active but things being shown.

No traces of data transfer in the event log

Could I get a hint what I’m doing wrong?

2

You should see a message in openhab.log

2019-02-05 20:58:02.451 [INFO ] [rt.modbus.internal.ModbusManagerImpl] - Modbus manager activated

Your modbus.things file appears essentially sound.

3

As mentions above your config looks good. Have you restarted OH since installing and/or modifying any Modbus files? Just asking b/c mqtt 2.x has a bug that requires an OH restart after making any changes to the things file.

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4

Restarting did the trick for me. Now I get a CONFIGURATION_ERROR on the switch-item, but that a thing I look into by myself this evening. Thank you all for your support!

5

Trying to understand the expectation here. You installed modbus binding, and were stumped enough by it not working without a reboot, that you posted for help?
I’m not saying you’re dumb!! Maybe we need a prompt in the install process.or docs. Suggestions?

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Hi,

the last Bindings/Things I installed (ie.solaredge,http1,fritzboxtr0641) all started without the need to do a restart.

Furthermore the logfiles did show that ModBus (somehow) became active. Thus I was quite sure that the problem was due to a bad configuration.

So this is the first time I ran into this issue (using openhab for several years). I would say that I’m not a total noob and a hint within the ModBus binding page would be quite helpful.