Best way to poll MODBUS

[Selim]

Hi there;
I am trying to develop a modbus rtu master application which communicates several slave devices through RS485. How should I handle data communications?
Because of the nature of the modbus protocol, my received data packets have predefined headers (bus address + function code) and known length. But footers may vary (they ends with crc).

When I request data, I set TNrDataProcessor packet as follows:

DataProcessor.DataPackets[0].PacketBegin:=chr(id);  // where id is slave I negotiate at the moment
DataProcessor.DataPackets[0].PacketLength:= 5 + 2*registercount; // how many words do I requested to read from slave... where 5 is modbus header + CRC

But this arrangement does not trigger TForm1.DataProcessorDataPacket() event. What should I do? Do I have to handle TForm1.DataProcessorDataPackets0PacketLength() event? By the way what is IsHandled variable used by this event?

I have very limited time. Could you please Show me the right way to use poll modbus? Thank you very much in advance...

Regards...

[Roman Novgorodov]

Hello

Latest version of nrComm Lib includes TnrModbus component.

Roman Novgorodov
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