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E14 Community recommendation for ModBus TCP client

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I am looking for an application to query a ModBus TCP interface on a scale head?

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The company I am working for has recently installed a RiceLake 1280 scale indicator with a Modbus TCP interface. The scale indicator is IP capable and resides in a network DMZ. The goal is to have a cloud vendor pull scale data over the network from the Modbus interface. I'm looking for an application that can query the Modbus interface to confirm communication with the interface. 

The scale vendor recommended an application in order to set the Modbus TCP interface IP address. I managed to get that working, proving the interface IP answers an IP ping. DMZ rules have been set in place to isolate the indicator. I want to test that the cloud vendor can get to the Modbus interface and pull the data. I'm thinking maybe there is a software tool like minicom is for serial communication, except the tool is for Modbus.

E14 has some great Modbus resources but nothing to match my search. A Modbus client query tool. I'm hoping there is a community member that has experience with Modbus TCP and that they could recommend application software to perform the task.

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  • I'll necro post.
    pymodbus tcp typically does fine.
    My boss showed me another library recently that seems to work well... bu t I forgot what it is called.
    typicaly, I start with a register map, then build out functions from there. dealing with modbus kinda sucks.
    I typicaly build lists, or arrays, while my co-workers seem to like json files. thats a design choice, I favor application development, 
    where they favor web development, though either could work. 

    A specific application? lol IDK about that, I would just write it. 

    out of curiosity, its that a touch screen? is button IO writable?
    can you push (load) different screens remotely?
    what is the display graphics programed in?
    are there other interfaces for programing the display?

  • in reply to SensoredHacker0

    Screen is touch, that is about the extent of my knowledge.

    It has network capabilities but we currently are not using it. The objective is to extract the scale data and move it to our ERP system.

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