NAME

mbtget - Simple perl script for make some modbus transaction from the command line.

DESCRIPTION

Modbus is a standard serial communication protocol used to interconnect industrial PLC (and a lot of other things). This module gives you access to TCP and RTU version of this protocol, through the MBclient object.

You can have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modbus for details.

INSTALL

You can install this module from:

GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/sourceperl/mbtget.git
cd mbtget
perl Makefile.PL
make
sudo make install

DEPENDENCIES

This script requires no other module or librarie.

It's pure Perl code without any extension.

USAGE

read mbtget help

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ mbtget -h

read a word data at address 1000 on modbus server 127.0.0.1

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ mbtget -a 1000 127.0.0.1

values:
1 (ad 01000): 52544

read 10 words data at address 1000 on modbus server plc-1.domaine.net

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ mbtget -n 10 -a 1000 plc-1.domaine.net

values:
1 (ad 01000): 52544
2 (ad 01001): 33619
3 (ad 01002): 61010
4 (ad 01003): 11878
5 (ad 01004): 60142
6 (ad 01005): 21714
7 (ad 01006): 14182
8 (ad 01007): 64342
9 (ad 01008): 18511
10 (ad 01009): 59909

write a word value of 333 at address 1000 on modbus server 127.0.0.1 with dump mode active

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ mbtget -w6 333 -a 1000 -d 127.0.0.1
Tx
[10 01 00 00 00 06 01] 06 03 E8 01 4D
Rx
[10 01 00 00 00 06 01] 06 03 E8 01 4D

word write ok

BUGS

Thanks to report issues at https://github.com/sourceperl/mbtget/issues

AUTHOR

Loic Lefebvre, <lle@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2014 Loic Lefebvre

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