Synchronous Client Example

It should be noted that each request will block waiting for the result. If asynchronous behaviour is required, please use the asynchronous client implementations. The synchronous client, works against TCP, UDP, serial ASCII, and serial RTU devices.

The synchronous client exposes the most popular methods of the modbus protocol, however, if you want to execute other methods against the device, simple create a request instance and pass it to the execute method.

Below an synchronous tcp client is demonstrated running against a reference server. If you do not have a device to test with, feel free to run a pymodbus server instance or start the reference tester in the tools directory.

#!/usr/bin/env python
'''
Pymodbus Synchronous Client Examples
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

The following is an example of how to use the synchronous modbus client
implementation from pymodbus.

It should be noted that the client can also be used with
the guard construct that is available in python 2.5 and up::

    with ModbusClient('127.0.0.1') as client:
        result = client.read_coils(1,10)
        print result
'''
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------# 
# import the various server implementations
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------# 
from pymodbus.client.sync import ModbusTcpClient as ModbusClient
#from pymodbus.client.sync import ModbusUdpClient as ModbusClient
#from pymodbus.client.sync import ModbusSerialClient as ModbusClient

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------# 
# configure the client logging
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------# 
import logging
logging.basicConfig()
log = logging.getLogger()
log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------# 
# choose the client you want
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------# 
# make sure to start an implementation to hit against. For this
# you can use an existing device, the reference implementation in the tools
# directory, or start a pymodbus server.
#
# If you use the UDP or TCP clients, you can override the framer being used
# to use a custom implementation (say RTU over TCP). By default they use the
# socket framer::
#
#    client = ModbusClient('localhost', port=5020, framer=ModbusRtuFramer)
#
# It should be noted that you can supply an ipv4 or an ipv6 host address for
# both the UDP and TCP clients.
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------# 
client = ModbusClient('localhost', port=5020)
#client = ModbusClient(method='ascii', port='/dev/pts/2', timeout=1)
#client = ModbusClient(method='rtu', port='/dev/pts/2', timeout=1)
client.connect()

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------# 
# example requests
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------# 
# simply call the methods that you would like to use. An example session
# is displayed below along with some assert checks. Note that some modbus
# implementations differentiate holding/input discrete/coils and as such
# you will not be able to write to these, therefore the starting values
# are not known to these tests. Furthermore, some use the same memory
# blocks for the two sets, so a change to one is a change to the other.
# Keep both of these cases in mind when testing as the following will
# _only_ pass with the supplied async modbus server (script supplied).
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------# 
rq = client.write_coil(1, True)
rr = client.read_coils(1,1)
assert(rq.function_code < 0x80)     # test that we are not an error
assert(rr.bits[0] == True)          # test the expected value

rq = client.write_coils(1, [True]*8)
rr = client.read_coils(1,8)
assert(rq.function_code < 0x80)     # test that we are not an error
assert(rr.bits == [True]*8)         # test the expected value

rq = client.write_coils(1, [False]*8)
rr = client.read_discrete_inputs(1,8)
assert(rq.function_code < 0x80)     # test that we are not an error
assert(rr.bits == [True]*8)         # test the expected value

rq = client.write_register(1, 10)
rr = client.read_holding_registers(1,1)
assert(rq.function_code < 0x80)     # test that we are not an error
assert(rr.registers[0] == 10)       # test the expected value

rq = client.write_registers(1, [10]*8)
rr = client.read_input_registers(1,8)
assert(rq.function_code < 0x80)     # test that we are not an error
assert(rr.registers == [17]*8)      # test the expected value

arguments = {
    'read_address':    1,
    'read_count':      8,
    'write_address':   1,
    'write_registers': [20]*8,
}
rq = client.readwrite_registers(**arguments)
rr = client.read_input_registers(1,8)
assert(rq.function_code < 0x80)     # test that we are not an error
assert(rq.registers == [20]*8)      # test the expected value
assert(rr.registers == [17]*8)      # test the expected value

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------# 
# close the client
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------# 
client.close()